It's Official

Hey everyone!

Well for all of my curious readers out there I have successfully secured a place of residency for my internship in Orlando!

I'll be living with a family in Winter Park which is about 15 minutes or so from Alden Road which is where Relevant's offices are located. The family consists of Hannah who is 13, Justin who is 20 and in college (the same age as my brother Jason) and Preston who is my age and is getting married right before I move in. I will also be accompanied by two chihuahuas.

I'll be keeping this blog updated so you can keep tabs on me during the summer. I hope to post pictures as well.

I will move down to Orlando on the 19th or possibly the 18th, then begin work on the 20th. I'll be in the office from 9am to 6pm Monday through Thursday and 9am to 1pm on Friday. I have connected with the other intern as well. Her name is Sarah Qually and she's from Gran Rapids. She's a sophomore studying design and I think we will get along quite smashingly.

Come visit me while I'm there! I mean Disney World, and me, it could be the best vacation EVER.

So it's official. I'm a design intern for Relevant and I will start in 25 days!

Thanks for stopping by and I'll be sure to keep you updated in the next couple of weeks.

Are you RELEVANT?

Hey everyone!

So, I have precisely 13 days left in my semester which means that life around here has been complete chaos as I'm doing my best to keep up with the last few projects. I'm finished, including my last final, on May 1st which is pretty crazy because I typically have the last final on the last day of the exam period. Oh man I'm ready for this semester to be OVER!

I have some good news to announce so, drum roll please....

I was accepted as a design intern for Relevant Magazine starting at the end of May!

I have met with 3 of my professors and each were eagerly excited about the opportunity. There will be 2 other interns and one will begin their internship on May 19th which is hopefully the same start date as me. In all there will be nine of us - three in design, three in marketing, and three in editorial. Evidently, there is a guy from Auburn who is an editorial intern so I'm hoping to catch up with him in the next couple of weeks.

There is only one more thing I need. Oh you thought that getting the internship would be the end of it, but not quite. I'm still trying to find a place to live. We do have one option, but if you know of anyone in Orlando that has an extra room or needs a summer sub-leaser PLEASE let me know! I'm clean, friendly, responsible, great with children and pet friendly so - tell your friends, family, or anyone that this awesome AU girl needs a roof over her head for the summer!

So yay! The internship search is over! Finally.

In other news, I went to Passion last weekend and man...the word "awesome" just isn't enough to describe how Passion was for me. For those of you who aren't familiar, Passion is a Christian conference for college students. This year we met in Atlanta and over 9,500 people came to worship and learn about God. The 2 speakers were Louie Gigglio and Francis Chan while David Crowder, Chris Tomlin, and Charlie Hall performed and lead worship. If you want to see more about the weekend check out the link: http://www.268generation.com/2.0/splash5.htm

I'm headed to Mobile on Saturday for an area wide meeting of youth groups in Mobile to see our drama group Speak perform. We are having a full day of hanging out with the teens, eating together, playing games, performing our skits, and teaching classes. It should be a good learning experience for Speak and hopefully God will use our time and silliness to reach out to the youth groups that attend. Also if you're free on Tuesday night at 7pm, and are aching to see Speak perform, come to devo at the ACSC on College Street! We're performing skits based on the themes of Acts which should be entertaining so I hope you can make it there!

Well that's about it for now. I better get back to my classes! As always, thanks for stopping by.

Happy April!

I can't believe April has already arrived. We have about 5 weeks left in the semester and that is quite intimidating. A lot has been happening in Auburn so I wanted to give you guys an update (and continue procrastinating on my website!)

Ah the internship hunt. Well, after all of that leg work beginning in November I have 2 offers on my plate at the moment. The first is with Adventures in Missions - I would be doing tons of design work for their new program Sound of Hope which connects sponsorships for orphans with musicians and their fan bases. I would also focus on the design aesthetic for the World Race.

The second possibility is with a firm in Birmingham, Details Communications. They focus on church and mission media. The rare bonus about Details is that they pay. I am still waiting on a phone call to inquire about a few things, but it does sound like a great place.

As far as Relevant in Orlando goes I was e-mailed last week. They said I made it to the "second round" for the internship. I had no idea there would be rounds...but I was thrilled to have made it through the first cut. I should hear from them sometime this week but honestly that would be my first choice at the moment. Granted I have no idea who I would live with or where, but from a design perspective I feel like they would have the most to teach me which I feel is the main purpose for having an internship in the first place.

Academia is beating me into the ground at the moment. I only got about 1 or 2 hours of sleep and for the past week it has been less than 6. If you know me, I always say that in a perfect world I would sleep 12 hours a night - when is the sun goes down till it rises again but that is ideal. I'm running on empty, and I am really behind in my classes. I have had so much going on outside of school from tons of freelance and other things with the ACSC that it has been hard to keep my head above water.

I have a printmaking critique today and it could be dreadful. I also have a biology test tomorrow that I just started studying for. If I could have any super power it would be to not require sleep.

I registered for my FINAL semester when I got back from Spring break. Isn't that insane? I will never register again. Soon I will be able to say "Oh when I was in college...." I'm going to be a "real" adult soon and that's intimidating. Even so, I will be excited to have a job where I can go to work and then leave my work AT work. No more sleepless nights. No more working in studio alone covered in staining ink.

As Frank Sinatra says "The best is yet to come and babe won't that be fine!"

That's about all I have to update. I've been pretty consumed with school and design which doesn't make for too much excitement.

Well I better study for biology and work on my website and my logos for San Diego and the logo for Sound of Hope and send off the Speak T-shirt and send mail to Casey in Chicago and check on my internship and prepare for my reader today and go to critique and take photographs of my projects for my professor and figure out why the IRS is sending me letters and go over my checks and...oh sleep.

Ha. Everyone have a splendid day, and if you a resting do a little for me. As always, thanks for stopping by!