Productive Proscrastination

If you’re an intern or just on that email list from Lisa, you know the time for the final evaluation is right around the corner. Which includes a four page paper on something we’ve learned. And in the most productive way I know how to procrastinate, here’s a list of what I’ve learned.

• The ins and outs of photoshop, my bestest best friend
• The thrill of speeding to a breaking news story
• People I’ve known for less than 30 seconds find my awkwardness as amusing as my family
• How to use Jazzbox
• When you need alacrity, Jazzbox give you molasses
• Rejection is a daily occurrence. If you’re lucky, it won’t be in public. If you’re not, it’ll be loud and embarrassing within hearing distance of at least two dozen people.
• How a water tower works. And why you can’t aren’t allowed on the 150 foot tower.
• On the 495 south turnoff from 95, you want to be in the left lane. The right is riddled with pot holes
• The importance of deadlines and cushion and why the former should never be too close and the latter never too empty
• An Einstein bobblehead is a desk necessity
• Going without coffee seems like such a good idea until a 300 word brief takes you four hours
• There is no quick way to explain where i stand academically, so in the interest of saving time, i'm graduating in may.
• That I make a terrible fishermen
• The story you want the least to do with will be the one people expect the most of
• if you can make them laugh, the person you just rear ended will stop their curse filled critique of your existence.
• when I needed the words the most, all I had was ‘thank you’
• The most memorable advice I got all summer was from the biggest man I’ve ever known. “Just relax. You have to have faith.”