Week Three
I’ve been building some great Black History Month posts for Facebook and starting to identify the most popular shows on JSUTV so I can write evergreen posts. I have the same problem so many white-identified Americans have, where many of these influential people with incredible lives are new discoveries to me.
At University Communications, I’ve been making edits to an upcoming periodical, but I had a family matter on Wednesday, and my practicum supervisor was unexpectedly out of the office on Friday. Worse, my sibling and I seem to have contracted a virus, which has been a cyclical problem this season. I am ready to be well! I have to take them to the doctor tomorrow, and will have to miss my Tower Hours.
In other School of Journalism news, I wrote my second news rundown (and my first I’ll be involved in producing) for my Media Production class. City Councilman Tyrone Hendrix has agreed to be a guest on our show, and that thrills me. I’m writing four pieces for the Flash in the upcoming weeks, and I am beginning to put together writing samples for internships and job applications. I even recorded two ROSRs over the weekend: one serious one through my church about a worldwide religious and social justice action against Boko Haram by self-identified witches and magic workers, and one about the stalemate between my sibling and myself in a clothier’s dressing room. No shots fired, just a lot of body dysmorphia, funhouse mirroring and self-shaming going around in dressing rooms--those tiny courtrooms of one.