Rewriting the New New Chapter

The last five years in review... the recap.
( I feel like a recap is in order for what I'm about to write about in my next few blogs. So bear with me. )


Semesters:
Fall '06} Ben and I moved to Las Vegas, NM and started classes at New Mexico Highlands University. I took my very first Media Arts class. Ref soccer and worked for a grant to study how public school PE programs where doing. Christmas in Tennessee. New Years in San Antonio.


Spring '07} Planned our wedding and enjoyed the an enormous about of stress but A'd all my classes except Psych 101. Lame! I got a C. Ref soccer. Trained and ran my first 1/2 marathon.


Summer '07} Got Married! Went to Disney World! Came back and started working for the Boys & Girls Club in Santa Fe, NM. And took my first English Comp class.


Fall '07} I enter the exciting field of Videography with my first ever documentary, "A Trip to India." This film lands me a my first of many Summer Internship. Ref soccer. I was in a play as Rambo. Plus drove all night to my cousin's wedding in Houston, TX. Christmas in Tennessee again but this time as husband and wife.


Spring '08} Started working on SITE Santa Fe 7th Biennial, "Lucky Number Seven." Did outstanding in my Color Theory class. Ref soccer


Summer '08} Spent a month and half in Santa Fe, NM working on Lucky Number 7 day and night. Started my job at Traveler's Cafe as a barista. And took an online literature class.


Fall '08} Enrolled in two major classes, Advance Design Practice (almost won a trip to Boston but found out I lost after staying up for 24 hours to print. Not fun.) and Design Projects for the Community (Almas da le Plaza. Nuff said). TA'd Color Theory. Went to the NMAM conference for the first time. Started couching a youth soccer team with my husband. First Christmas alone, just Ben and I.


Spring '09} PICT! And a another play. Couched soccer.


Summer '09} Went to Disney World again! Two Summer Internships.


Fall '09} Started my minor in fine arts and took ADP 2. This time I won the trip to DC. Couched soccer. Visit my family in South Dakota for Christmas.


Spring '10} Took my final core classes and Character/Stop-motion Animation. Entered my teams stop-motion film into the 3 Minute Film Festival. It was among 40 of like 300 films chosen to be screen at the festival. Daedalus & Icarus. Couched soccer.


Summer '10} Moved into our new apartment. Ben's little brother came and stayed with us. Took two summer classes, one in green screen effects and another/internship where I helped create digital eBooks. Spent two weeks in August helping my great grandmother in Houston, TX recover from a broken hip, stroke/heart attack. Brother's wedding in South Dakota.


Fall '10} Got a puppy! Took my first web class and screen writing. Applied and was awarded the Seabury Scholarship. I worked on padding my grad school applications by working on a project in type movement. At the time the Media Arts dept. didn't offer any classes in kinetic typography. It was band new'ish and had to teach myself, more or less. Couched soccer. Got called up to do jury duty. Drove to Mississippi for Christmas.


Spring '11} Final semester at NMHU starts. 10 snow days, 3 days with out water because of frozen pipes.  Still doing jury duty. Took Distributed Network Production. Learned to build apps etc... Social Tracking, and might have found a new calling. Was asked to carry the flag into the grad ceremony for the arts and sciences. My parents surprised me by showing up for my graduation. I am the first person in my family to have a college degree. 


Also, my husband and I found out we were going to have a baby but then we lost it. It's been rough.


Summer '11} After the semester was over I flow with some classmates from DNP class to LA to take part in LAYAR Days. It was a lecture/workshop on AR. I signed up with AmeriCorp, and interviewed and started a job/internship with SITE Santa Fe. I worked at SITE since I got back from LA (end of May) to September. 


Fall '11} I'm doing nothing right now. I need a break. I am still working at the Traveler's Cafe and doing some freelance web work, cleaning the apartment and painting. Trying to get creative again before I head off to grad school.