week 9.2

as these blog entries begin to wrap up, i have been thinking a lot about them. i like doing them a lot, don't get me wrong, but i love crossing things off my to - do list. but i think it's a good thing - as a result i have been thinking about newswriting and journalism and journalists and reporting and stories and ideas et cetera et cetera et cetera in all of my spare moments. i think it's great - it's kind of like my "news diet" (which, as a side note, i stuck religiously to over thanksgiving break when i had more than 25 minutes of free time a day). instead of reading whats going on around me locally or even worldwide, i am forced to see and pay attention to what is happening around me. i have to seek it out, strive for it. and not only that, i have to recognize if something would even be cut out for a news story. it's exciting, i feel like i'm constantly on the brink of discovering something. or perhaps, maybe not uncovering a breaking news story but something even better. inventing something - drawing two ideas together or learning about something. and that is what is so great about journalism - i get to learn and indulge on the habits of humankind and then turn around and educate others on it.