Hello, Goodbye

I'm done nine weeks of my second semester of graduate school. Soon I will have a Masters Degree. I don't know what to think about that. Seems like I just got here. That I moved to a continent over 10,000 miles away from the people and places that I was familiar wit-

Stop it. I'm not going to drip nostalgic words into (or onto?) these pages yet. Still time to do something and to see what I would like. Well, not so much as see, but to experience. To experience the rich Australian history of Sydney. Unfortunately, I don't have the budget or the time - something that happens when you are in the midst of planning a trip that nearly encompasses the entire globe. So I'm not sure what I'll get to see of this great southern land, even though I've technically seen the whole thing.

What I am certain of is my latest triumph in the publishing world. With the latest issue of FourFourTwo hitting shelves yesterday, I have entered the magazine arm of the publishing industry. And when I say entered, I mean that I've been published in a magazine. Something I wrote is in a magazine. For those keeping score at home, I've now been published in every form of media: newspaper, book, internet (not this blog, those don't count), and magazine. Pretty sweet for a 23-year old who is uncertain about what to do with the days given to him. I'd like to think that I have accomplished a lot, and yet I know how much I've squandered and wasted time. It's an encouraging and discouraging at the same time. Knowing I'm capable of much more with having done so much is an interesting conundrum.

Anyways, I think every single one of the lectures that I attended this week were quite poor. On Tuesday, our Magazine class featured a portion on InDesign, a program that comes quite natural to me. It's similar to Pagemaker, the program I used back when I was Sports Editor of the spoke. Digital Publishing continues to make me question the existence of such a class, and last night's lecture for Editing was on footnotes. How does someone give a two hour lecture on footnotes? I don't know. But it happened. I was there to witness it. I'm glad to have this experience at Haymarket - it's been quite cool, and has totally redeemed the semester.

Also, the weather has gotten cool. Bummer. And for those who I haven't informed, I'm hitting the shores of the U.S. (for good) August 14th. Before then? Plans are to visit Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Dubai, England, France, Switzerland, Italy, and Dublin. I can't wait. And I'm going with Sarah. Amazing.