I suck at coming up with interesting titles for my blog posts. Yesterday I chose hola and today I'm using hi. So original. Maybe tomorrow (yes tomorrow!) I'll use ciao.
I'm trying so hard to update almost everyday. Because skipping several months is bad. I've been blogging since the beginning of highschool (but on livejournal) and it is fun to go back and read my entries. So I must write more often.
Nothing particularly interesting ever really happens in my life, but I'm sure I'll find something to yack about on here everyday. I wonder, is everyday one word or two?
I just got done writing an article for the school newspaper. My journalism class this semester isn't how I thought it would be. To put it simply, I've found I don't particularly like the journalistic form of writing.
For one thing, you have to follow a strict format. Grammar and punctuation is different from, say, essay or blog writing. You can't include your opinion (!), and if you do it's called editorializing.
The biggy for me is editorializing. I have lots of opinions, and it kills me to have to suppress them and portray an unbiased point of view. I've lost many points on articles for editorializing-- but I will admit it is getting easier, the more I write articles, to suppress my urge to tell the world what I think.
The reasons above are why I decided to drop journalism as my minor. To me it's a very dry form of writing. Dry and boring. I can't imagine having to be a journalist. It's not for me.
However, the class is beneficial because it is interesting learning about these things. It's also fun to read newspaper articles now and see how the journalist made a mistake in the format and stuff like that.
Oh, and I've decided that I want Obama to be the democratic candidate for President. I would love a female president, but I really do not like Hilary. At all. If she ends up being the democratic candidate, I won't vote in the election. Because the republican candidate will most likely be McCain, and I get a bad feeling from that man too.
I do think that whoever the democratic candidate ends up being will be the president. I have an inkling that most people are sick of Bush, sick of republicans, and thus will vote democrat regardless of who it is.
But it better be Obama. Or I'm moving to Canada.
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