Woes of this year, here’s to a new next year!

Well, hopefully I’ll get everything for this semester done. I’ve been talking with people about my troublesome group in PR Campaigns, and I have come to the conclusion I need to sit down and talk with my professor about it. I’m being set up as a scape goat for some unprofessional people to pass the blame to. No one messes with my integrity and gets away with it…no one. History always seems to repeat itself. Warning, the first few paragraphs are a bit complainy…skip on down to the picture of kitties if you want to read more positives.

People from the ass cracks of the Earth seem to always want to find some way to bring me down. I have yet to figure why there are always a couple of people wherever I go that, not only hate me, but want to bring me down as much as they possibly can. It’s usually not a big deal. My reputation always precedes me, and the people who do such things become laughing-stocks with, typically, no effort on my part to bring them down. The only times it bothers me is when I let it. Well, some of them found the weakness to getting under my skin–be in a group project with me and accuse me of doing no work. Oh yes, I will take taht as a challenge. Then for every time they raise a voice, no matter how much work I’ve done and they blame their fallings on me (even though they clearly are just being lazy), I take all of that as a challenge.

Unfortunately, I’m the type of person who’d rather just lower my shoulder and plow through rather than get others involved to deal with a situation. So instead of getting a “hey, good job on setting up the client interview,” “hey, good job for teaching yourself DreamWeaver to set up a home page,” “hey, good job keeping the minutes at every meeting,” “awesome work creating a central communication hub for us to get out messages and files to each other,” “thanks for teaching me what each portion of a campaign is because I can’t read my own notes or listen in class,” “great job for solely taking up the presentation part because we all suck at it,” “thanks for scheduling our meetings,” “thanks for picking up our slack and hunting down broken URLs to set up MLA citations we were supposed to do,” “thanks for covering our asses on research reports we aren’t giving to you even though we promised them 48 hours in advanced,” or any thing like that, I get…”You don’t have these two things for us yet? You’re holding US behind! Omg, the world is going to end! We can’t make 2 blank pages in a Word document that can be easily CTRL+C CTRL+Ved into in 5 seconds!!!!” Or I get “I don’t have my stuff done because YOU only tell us every time you see us and only send one or two e-mails out” or “I don’t have that with me because when you said it’s yours and I can only have it for 3 days, it’s YOUR responsibility to get it back to yourself.” Whenever they don’t have things, I tell them it’s alright and sit down to work something out to keep moving forward. I never accuse them. Then they call me childish and unprofessional…Yeah, I’m glad they’re attacking me on my strengths that have been proved time and time over in the Journalism department. Not to mention, I won’t give any names, at least one of the members of my group is apparently reknowned for poor work ethic.

I’ve never worked with such an immature bunch in my life. Don’t worry, I’m about to get to the positives.

And now for the fun part–why I am not holding my head low despite this previously crappy semester. I believe everything is a state of mind. I keep myself generally positive and try not to push my problems onto other people. I prefer to sit down, meditate, and heavily focus on the issues at hand. Then once they’re resolved in my mind, forget about them and move on. I’m doing just that next semester, which should be my last semester in school. If everything falls together right, I will have no classes on Thursdays or Fridays!

Yes, I’m finally going to have the time I wish to devote to extracurricular activities and job hunting. Not to mention, I will be taking the Wine Appreciation course (once my POD goes through, anyways). I’m really looking forward to that class because I love cooking and pairing my foods with the proper wine. I also like to host small get togethers, and having the right kind of wine always adds to the atmosphere.

Also, back to the state of mind comment, kitties make me happy. I love kitties. I want a kitty really really bad. When I was younger, I always told myself all my life issues would be solved once I had a girlfriend. Well, before even getting to that stage in a relationship with a girl, I realized how wrong I was. Girls cause issues even before a relationship! And they always need to complicate everything.

But then there are kitties. Kitties are lovable, adorable, cuddly and ninja-esque. Once you’ve shown you deserve their respect, they will respect you and purr up a storm. Yes, I’ve tamed some of the meanest of cats. Some of my friends refer to me as “The Cat Whisperer.” Now, don’t expect me to come to your home and tame your mean cat for you…All I can do is make a cat like me, not anyone else. You must get down on their level and think like them. I’m good at this because I myself am a ninja, and ninjas contain many feline traits.