Through the Camera Lens: All good things must come to an end

Today was my final day at the Sidney Daily News. I can't believe that three and a half months have flown by this fast. It seems like just yesterday, I turned my tassel from right to left sitting beside my fellow journalism students in the confides of Assembly Hall fresh out into the world. Now three months later, I have completed some time at a real newspaper getting my work published daily, and getting to experience things that I never imagined. I am glad that I decided to go through with this internship and not interview for that job in Illinois. Yeah, I'm kind of kicking myself now for not have accepting the offer since I am now jobless, but I have had opportunities and experiences I will never forget. I would not be the person I have grown to become in the past three months, my work would have grown but maybe not in the way I expected and I would have missed out on the opportunity to get to know my awesome room mate and my amazing boss--both people I will definitely keep in touch with because I know they will be there for me if I need them to be.

Now, not having a job and not knowing where my road in life will take me scares the living daylights out of me. For so long, I have always known where I was going to end up next and what I would be doing. I am not packing my things up and moving down to Bloomington for another year in school. No school shopping for new folders, spiral notebooks, three-ring binders, pencils, pens, florecent highlighters, new clothes and shoes in the lastest fashions and a fresh clean haircut. Nothing. Instead, its packing up my belongings and moving back home in Fort Wayne and trying to fit everything I've accumulated back into my small square room. And each time I've moved back home in the past four years, it feels less and less like home. Instead, it feels like a holding pen for me until the next chapter in my life begins. I just hope this time the holding pen does not keep in penned in for too long--I may go insane. Alas, I am going to take the next several weeks and treat it like a summer vacation to relax and unwind after an intense 3.5 months of a crazy work schedule. And in this "vacation" I am going to keep a positive outlook on my job search and keep sending my stuff out to a list of papers I am interested in working for and keeping my eye on the job lisitings.

Okay, now for my grand finale photos from the Sidney Daily News.

The first one was a creative exercise to help me capture the moment in the second photo.