A Day In The Life Of...

ME! I've told you all about my adventurous weekends, so here is a little bit about what I do during the weeek...

A typical day for me is work at admissions (like, now) until late afternoon. Then I tend to procrastinate any projects or work I have for an hour or so - watching The Sopranos, Sex and The City, or reading my current book "Mountains Beyond Mountains" - until I decide I'm hungry. I make myself a meal which recently has consisted of crackers, cheese, an orange and milk - but, I just got paid so SPINACH SALAD, pasta, nectarines and wine here I come! Then, I park myself in my desk chair to begin work on my Beloit International Film Festival internship.

I scored this BIFF internship through my advisor Marion (biology professor, head of the Health Care and Society department). My official title is: Intern for the Selection Committee Chair - the chair happens to be Marion's husband. This internship has taught me a lot! I do most of the work from my room - internet research on film festivals from around the world, watching movie trailers, and e-mailing distributors and filmmakers. I have also found some fun animated shorts that are worth checking out:
Sebastian's Voodoo: a story about true sacrifice for one's friends, and
Ken's New Specs: what a vegetable goes through for fashion.

The festival itself is going into its fourth year, and I am very excited. BIFF is the first film event I have been involved with - and I have been going to film festivals and watching independent, foreign films since I was young. It will be taking place this upcoming winter - I know, a little crazy to expect people to wander throughout Beloit, WI in February to go see various movies... but it happens! And people love it! Beloit College hosts a few of the venues used for the festival, along with restaurants, pubs, etc. in the city of Beloit. All very exciting, usually over 125 films come to our border town to be celebrated by the community.

Lastly, I've recently started writing in my journal again. It gives me a chance to reflect on my life, and put together my thoughts for the future - I'll be a senior afterall *AHHH!* and need to get my life (i.e. GRE, applications, location, etc.) together. SOOO... for a pretty typical work week I can be seen working, BIFF-ing, watching TV, reading or writing. Life can't be better than this :)