Summerfest and (more) Imagine Dragons

I found out today that Imagine Dragons will be playing at Summerfest and I am so excited! Seeing them outside is going to be AWESOME. Granted, if I can go. It's on a Thursday night or something like that. Hopefully I won't be working. Knowing how great Imagine Dragons is live, I can't imagine missing it. I seriously still feel like I'm on that concert high sometimes. I love listening to them as I walk to school. Dan Reynolds just puts a spring in my step, especially when On Top of the World plays. That song gets to me in the best way.

Summerfest is a fantastic little time of the year in which hundreds of bands play on something like 15 stages over an 11 day period. It's magical, really. The first non classical or jazz concert I ever went to was there. I saw Barenaked Ladies and it was phenomenal. I wasn't able to go to Summerfest last year because of work and the same with the year before. BUT I WILL PREVAIL. FOR IMAGINE DRAGONS.

Other than that fun stuff, which I am so very excited about, today was a pretty uneventful day apart from the fact that I got a whole ton of stuff done. I finished an essay, a research article and the binder full of research and interviews I did, and I planned what I have to study and do in the next couple of days.  I also completed my online journalism portfolio for my newswriting class. I'm really proud of it. I never used Wordpress before this semester but I quite like it.

Oh, and you may have noticed that my URL for this blog has changed. That is in an effort to seem somewhat more professional if someone legitimate comes around these parts for whatever reason. It will be pretty apparent this is not a professional blog by any means but at least they'll see its mine. That might seem like a bad thing to some people but I'm proud of my writing on here and the fact that it is so relaxed and what not. As someone who wants to probably write online for a career, I figure I might as well show all the different kinds of writing I can do.

As the semester winds down I feel like I'm thinking more about my future. I'll really be a senior once this semester is over, even though I already am one credits-wise. My time at BYU is running short. I've loved every moment of it but it's crazy to think about where I'll be even a year and a half from now. I'll basically be done with school at that point. Well, undergraduate school. I've no idea whether I want to even try grad school. Much awaits me, that's all I know.

And speaking of waiting, my best friends come home from their missions in the next two months! Jordan will be back in May and Matthew in June. I'm completely ecstatic and worried and excited and nervous all at the same time. It will just feel great knowing we're all in the same country; Matthew is just in DC but Jordan has been all the way in Scotland. DC might as well be another country while I'm here in Utah.

Last YouTube video I watched: Hot Wheels, Charmander and the Male Barbie

Packin' up

I literally just got home from work. I'll I've done is put on soccer shorts instead of jeans and brought all my snacks and toothbrush/toothpaste up to my room to put in my backpack. The only thing I'm bringing on my trip is my trusty orange backback. It's been everywhere with me since, I think, just before junior or senior year of high school when I got it; possibly even before then. I just know it's been a long time. It's most notable journeys have been multiple camping trips and London, England.

I'll only be in Tennessee from Saturday morning until Sunday evening but it's going to be so worth it. I imagine there won't be much sleeping. Oh well. It will be amazing.

I must get back to my packing now, whilst listening to Chameleon Circuit's new album, Still Got Legs. (What is Chameleon Circuit, you ask? It's a band that plays music about Doctor Who. And guess what else? They're actually quite good. It's proper good music, as David Tennant would say. Seriously. He said that about them.) I'm sorry for such a short post but duty calls. "Duty" being finishing putting stuff in the various pockets my awesome orange backpack possesses. Can a backpack even possess pockets? Well, I think it does.

Last YouTube video I watched: VidCon: Thoughts from Places

Liveblogging from class

I've done a lot of things in class before: finished crossword puzzles, played Words with Friends, gotten 3 stars on many levels of Angry Birds, tweeted, perused Tumblr, subscribed to new people on YouTube, chatted on Skype and Gmail.

This is the first time I've ever blogged in class, though. I'm pretty excited about it. I'm currently waiting for the official start of my Principles of Journalism class; sounds fancy, eh? My professor is hilarious. He really knows his stuff. That being said, we've spent the whole semester listening to group presentations and that can get a little old. They've actually been really awesome presentations but stuff begins to wear on me, especially when people start talking about social media and are pretty much explaining to me what it does. Cue me tuning out.

So I'm not in the journalism program yet but I sure hope to be. I'll be applying in the fall and that freaks me out. It's quite daunting to think that this is my last prerequisite class before applying. I was kind of under the impression that I'd be stuck in prerequisite world forever. Now that I won't be I don't exactly know what to do, except for apply to the program, though that's a little fuzzy to me.

A little caveat now: We just found out our final exam is an essay that's due before exam week even starts. This is going to be great because if there are two things I love, they are not having a real exam and writing instead of test taking.

And now we found out that we get 10 points extra credit for completing the professor evaluations. Good thing I've already done that.

All right, time to actually start listening since class has legitimately started.