Please Hurry Fall...It's Way too Hot

110 degrees...that was how high the heat advisory update I received said it would get this weekend. Really? It's so hard to function in this heat, I don't know if I can handle 2 more months...it needs to start cooling off sooner.

Summer classes are over and hopefully I made an A in my gender communication class. We find out grades later this week.

Here's an update on the internship front. I had an interview this past week with Texas Monthly magazine at their Austin office. It was definitely not what I expected to be doing for an internship but it sounds really interesting. Plus the staff in the office seem really nice! I'm still waiting to hear from 2 PR firms in the Austin area. Hopefully I can get an internship settled before classes start on the 25th.

Our apartment is coming along nicely! We went to Round Rock for Ashton's birthday and decided today to stop at IKEA and get some ideas. Well we ended up buying some curtains for our downstairs living room that I love! We just need some more wall decorations and we'll be done...and I need to print pictures from my trips to Peru and New York so I can put my picture frames back up.

After my interview, which was in Austin...in the middle of the afternoon...in August in Texas...lets just say I think my AC kicked the bucket again (or I just need freon but I don't know how to see about that). I decided it is definitely time for a new vehicle, my 1997 Honda Accord still runs really good but it's just getting to old and not running as well as a newer vehicle would. I'm starting the process of really looking for a car (not brand new of course, just newer than over a decade ago)...I'm aiming for mid-semester for the new vehicle. It would be great if I could get a car for graduation but I don't think that's going to happen, so I'm taking matters into my own hands. Right now I really want an SUV...I'm tired of not being seen by other drivers. I'm jumping between an Hyundai Tucson and a Nissan Rogue (or a Murano if I can find a could price for a used one). Hopefully I'll get to do some test driving when I go home in 2 weeks to see if I really want an SUV.

Well this week should be pretty dead at work...no classes and all. But staff will start coming back! Desaree, our grad assistant, will be back Monday! She has been in Argentina all summer working on her thesis. And they might start interviews this week, so who knows how this week will be.

Hope everyone enjoys their week and a half off before fall classes begin! Wish me luck on the internship and car situations!

Where Did Summer Go?!?!

One week. That's all that is left of summer school, one week. I'm really sad I didn't do more summertime things once I got back from Peru. I understand I spent 5 weeks of my summer in a foreign country where it was winter. And I also understand I spent a total of about 2 weeks in my hometown. Fall classes start in 3 weeks, don't get me wrong I am beyond excited to start this final semester. However, I realized earlier this week that this is my last summer as a student. This is the last summer I could randomly take off for a week or longer from work and know I would have a job to come back to. Seriously only working on campus can you go to another country for 5 weeks and still have a job to come back to.

I'm slacking on keeping up with this blog. I really need to do better but it's been a crazy past week so here are some updates.

We have officially moved into our new apartment Copper Beech Townhomes in San Marcos on Mill Street! No more smelly apartment with crazy bugs because we lived by the woods. These townhomes are beyond wonderful! I am definitely spoiled living in this townhome as a college student (my student loans are paying my rent). Once I graduate and eventually move away I know I wont be able to afford to live in such a nice place so I plan on enjoying this year, maybe longer, here. It's way too nice for any college kids in my opinion.

Still waiting on word for an internship. I emailed them all last week and got basically the same response, notifications for interviews will be sent out "early to mid-August." I'm starting to get really nervous that I wont get an internship. I'm basing my entire last semester on getting an internship...that's a lot of pressure.

Well I better get back to looking for academic journals for a paper for my gender communication class. I love this class and highly recommend it to any Comm Studies majors or minors at TxSt...Dr. LU is awesome!