progress in life

I am in the process of finalizing my class schedule. It is not fun. The one economics section that worked for my class schedule is full. I am going to petition to get in, but on the off-chance that this fails, I had to sign up for a different class. This isn't so much the issue--the fact that I needed to find two different JTS classes is.

Like I said, not fun.

I am also trying to peg down jobs/internships for the semester. So far I have a fantastic freelance position worked out. Hopefully everything else will fall into place soon.

As far as grad schools go, I feel like my dad is trying to trick me. He's been all, "Why don't you try applying to Columbia's Journalism School?" "Are you sure you don't want to go to grad school for anthropology?" While he has always been relatively supportive of the whole j-school thing, he has not shared this enthusiasm with my interest in anthropology. This is all part of his, "I am confused/worried that you aren't actually passionate about arts administration when it's really just something I'm not 100% supportive of" campaign. While all of my friends would probably agree that I emote A LOT, the things I emote about aren't always at the forefront of my mind. For me, expressing intense emotion (exuberance, annoyance, etc.) is an easy way of relieving stress and anxiety, because I am a highly anxious person. The time I spent in Israel last summer? I wasn't super psyched about it beforehand. I'm not entirely sure how I can express to my dad that arts administration is something that I am very interested in. I mean, I've already devoted an ungodly amount of time to the Columbia Festival of Winds--shouldn't that be enough?! I have a hard time expressing interest/being involved in things that do not interest me, and I'm certainly not involved in CFW for the benefit of my sanity, so at this point, I'm not sure what I can do. (In contrast, my mom is extremely supportive of my academic pursuits for grad school. Woo!)

So yeah.