Opportunity Awaits

Wow, it's been a long time since I came to my blog. I guess I can blame my busy month for that. In March, I was only in Canyon a total of 12 days. The first part of it was due to a two week spring break but the second part was due to work.

Almost exactly a week after I got back from Spring Break, I repacked (okay, that's a lie, I never unpacked, just kind of threw clothes everywhere to condense everything into a smaller bag) and loaded into a van with a bunch of the paper people for a trip to Corpus Christi to compete at a paper conference.

While a weekend at the beach was amazing, and I had one full day of nothing but beach time, I didn't do too hot at the actual onsite competition. However, one of the handful of my pictures our yearbook submitted did get second in the Sports Action Photo division and that led me to think of how lucky I've been this year.

First of all, I started rocking the boat at both The Prairie and Eternal Flame. But it was November that really got me rolling. I literally started the month in Kentucky and enjoyed opportunities I never would have dreamed of even last year. Not only did I get to visit some of the best farms in the nation, if not the world, I also got to go "behind the scenes" at Churchill by watching works from the gap and got to enjoy time in the press box between races at the Breeders' Cup. That was literally the best week of my life and made decisions for me that I never really even realized I had.

This was followed by one of my big time projects going to regionals in the National Broadcasting Society and actually winning the division. This was even more of a big deal because it was an audio package, something that I've never even experimented with before I put this together.

This was followed a month later by winning Staff Member of the Semester for Eternal Flame.

But even though I had a lot of success at school, my biggest moments of the (school) year have come from those in the racing industry.

After the Breeders' Cup, I got more involved in the industry when it came to talking to others and this opened up a whole new world for me in the last few months. While I already have the USEF internship and am not making any moves until I figure that out and see what comes after, I was given some leads on racing journalism jobs.

I also got more "prominent" in the journalism thing and was told about media teleconferences and such (one that I did today). I even was given a chance to interview Steve Asmussen about one of his Derby potentials.

While I am set for the next six months or so of my life, I do have some questions about where I'll go after then. But looking at everything I've experienced the last few months... life is about to become just a little more clearer when it comes to ideas in 2013.