We’re engaged!!!
Jeff and I got engaged last week, right before Thanksgiving. He totally surprised me with a beautiful ring…
I can’t stop staring at it…
We’re thinking about getting hitched in June of 09 so I have plenty of time to plan after I finally graduate. I’ve already tried on some wedding gowns, of course. I instantly fell in love with this gorgeous Reem Acra dress, but it was ridiculously expensive. But don’t worry, I’ll have plenty of fun looking over the next six months. 
Our first STEM meeting of the semester is tomorrow. Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend. We will be having an informal meeting to plan out our activities and goals for the semester, as well as choosing some exciting guest speakers.
When: Monday, September 10th, 4:30 – 5:30
Where: Clark Hall, Academic Success Center, Room 116 (Conference Room)
The 50th Anniversary of the Radio-Television Journalism Program at San Jose State is this year, and to mark the occasion we are planning a huge reunion. The festivities will take place from October 8th through October 12th.
As President of RTNDA at SJSU, I am pleased to have a very active role in the planning of this exciting event. We are thrilled to announce that Sam Donaldson will be the keynote speaker at the Friday evening gala. SJSU’s newspaper, The Spartan Daily, published a very detailed article about the reunion and Donaldson here. Please note the “super exciting” quotes. I was just so eloquent the day of the interview.
I ‘ll be talking about this a lot during the coming weeks, since the planning is keeping me very busy. For more information about the reunion, visit our website here.
Time to brush off the cobwebs and start blogging again: school is back in session. This semester is going to be crazy busy for me (which you’ll be hearing all about), but I just wanted to tell everyone what I was up to over the summer.
First off, the summer started off really well: Dad leased me a brand new Mazda 3.
I cannot even describe how awesome it is to be able to drive a car with a working radio, arctic AC, and no risk of overheating.
Thanks Dad and Stacey!!!!
A big chunk of my summer was dedicated to my internship. While continuing my work at Pulver Labs as Office Manager, I also interned at NBC11 as a community journalist. I worked on this really exciting website called HomeTown.
I suggest everyone check it out. This is a really good example of a network getting involved in community journalism. While at NBC I was able to not only publish my writing online, but also participate in live chats that coincided with the 5pm evening news, publish to NBC’s main website, and help with the San Jose Grand Prix. NBC has asked me to continue on as part of their team, and work on community outreach.
In August right before school started I went to the Monterey Historics, as I do every year.
As usual, I had an absolute blast. One thing I miss about working for VP: the track.
Apparently the photographers missed me too. These silly guys aren’t used to seeing girls paint brake rotors.
Me and my honey. Stacey aptly named this photo “Too Cool”. I promise we weren’t posing. Below is a pic of the car we were resting on, right before it went on the track.
This is a Lola 310 CanAm, driven by John Morton. This is also the car I was working on above. Thanks to Stace for all these pics; without her my blog would be pretty boring!
Now, I’m in school, and deep in the throes of Update News, planning the RTVJ 50th Anniversary Reunion at SJSU, taking a full load of classes, working two jobs, acting as President for two separate clubs, and taking ballet class 5 times a week. Sound busy enough?
More on the RTVJ Reunion to come very soon. I hope everyone else had a great summer! Mine was busy, but still great.
As I mentioned in an earlier post, I was in San Diego last weekend. Jeff and I joined Mom and Sam for the annual No Dig Conference. Here we are on the plane. I keep telling Jeff if he’s not careful his face will stay that way…perhaps I can shame him into behaving for pictures by posting this one. : )
Since Sam was the chairman, we got to stay in the Penthouse Suite, which was really nice.
We went to the San Diego Zoo on Saturday, which was the best zoo I have ever been to in my life! I highly recommend it. Our fave exhibit was the polar bears…
I have never seen such active animals! Words can’t even describe how awesome it was to see these powerful and huge bears cavorting in the water. Super cool.
The Pandas were really neat, too. We were really close to this one.
Here’s our family portrait…
On Sunday we just hung out at the hotel, went swimming, and relaxed, which was nice. Thanks to Mom and Sam for the weekend getaway…we had a great time!
Jessica Drnek , San Diego Zoo , No-Dig Show , The World According to Jess
I am a Broadcast Journalism Major at San Jose State University, a novice blogger, and an avid reader.
