I am the farthest thing from productive. As an intern for a weekly paper I can write pretty much anything and if they like it I'll get paid $25 per piece. This isn't much on the scale of journalism but for an article that is only 150-200 words and only takes me about 1/2 an hour to put together it's good money.
Instead, I have been re-reading the Harry Potter series. I just finished Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (book 3) which only took me about 2 days to complete. When I should have been writing. Also, I have been meaning to go to the bank for at least a month. And even though there is a PNC Branch less than 5 minutes away from my house, and I drive past it every time I go to my boyfriends house, I have not made the effort to stop in.
Besides the bank trip and article (which would bring me $$ I'm in desperate need of) that I've been putting off there's a writing competition I've been wanting to enter. The deadline is June 30th and the grand prize is $1000 and you get published. This would be fucking amazing, especially from a career standpoint. What have I done to work towards this awesome prize? Nothing more than a tad of brainstorming.
Maybe my creative juices just have stopped flowing. I feel out of ideas. They've gotten lost in the shuffle. I suck at this. And the excuse that school has me stressed out is no longer valid until the end of August when I'll be on academic overload (kill me now). Ugh. Maybe I signed up for the wrong career. I didn't really weigh out my options when I put down journalism as my major when I applied to college, I suppose I should have put more thought into my future. Even though that's a lot of pressure to put on a 17-year-old...but that's another rant (which is also the title of a GREAT book by Chuck Palahniuk).
And now I just sit and complain. And read Harry Potter. bleh. With any luck I'll be able to get some ideas flowing again. Until then, INXS will blare from my laptop speakers and book 4 will be at my side.
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