Beignets From Sunday On a Monday

Summer's winding down and I leave for school again in a little less than a week. I'm not used to having such a long summer. In high school, we would get out at the end of May and come back in early August. Now, I get out early in May and leave in late August. That's almost four months of summer, which I'm totally greatful for; but I'm excited to get back to school.

I don't really know where I was intending to go with this post, but the above picture is of some beignets that I made yesterday morning. When we went to New Orleans, we brought back some Cafe du Monde mix. I was a little nervous and actually messed up the first set of batter, but the second set was much better and even my mom said that they were good.

For the next week, I'll be helping my mom out in the library at her school along with getting things ready to move back into my dorm on Saturday. I've also started thinking a lot about the direction of this blog and what content I want to feature, so hopefully I can start making the adjustments as needed and start posting regularly again. I'd preferably like to do at least two posts a week.

It Starts (Again)

I've been a bad, bad blogger. But I have a good reason for not updating since August. Before I went on hiatus, I had just gone off to college. Now, my first semester has come and gone and I'm proud to say that I've found my niche. I joined my school's newspaper staff to get in the practice of writing in that style, working as a member of a staff, and also to feel like I was actually doing something as far as working towards a career in journalism. Everyone on the staff is great, I've met a lot of cool people, and from the first meeting I attended I just knew I'd found my people. I also joined the yearbook staff, which doesn't have as many people, but is just as awesome and fun to write and take pictures for.

As a freshman, for my first few years at school I have to focus on getting my core classes (the 101s and 102s) out of the way, and then I can focus on my major. Not that I'm biased or anything, but the Mass Communications major at my school is the best major. I took the Intro to Mass Media Course last semester and my professor was so great and engaging and really showed that he was in love with what he was doing. Whenever I have teachers that show that they're passionate about what they do, that helps me a lot because then I get excited about the subject as well.

So, as you can see, school kept me pretty busy, but now that I know how much work to expect and how much free time I'll have, I'm ready to come back to this blog and start updating regularly. Blogging is something that I genuinely like doing and there's more freedom in blogging than in writing articles for the newspaper. Now I can have the best of both worlds.