Feel free to call me Allie Tatum

It's Saturday night and I am in sweatpants, reclined in my chair in the living room, and watching Step Up on ABC Family. Who says I don't know how to have a good time?
I have big news, and I mean BIG. I got an offer to be a free lance columnist for the Dallas County News during the school year. My editor said that he wants me to write about my experiences in Iowa City, being away from home, and life as a student. Sounds easy enough, right? My life isn't as exciting as most, but I think I can think of things to ramble about once a month. I get to have a title for the column and everything and this will give me more material for my portfolio. Writing for two newspapers will no doubt keep my busy this year, but I'm hoping I can improve my time management/writing skills through that.

I am so ready to be back in Iowa City. I'm ready to always have my friends with me, especially since I'm living with one of my best friends this year. I'm ready to start my classes and get settled and started on working for the Daily Iowan. I am pretty nervous for the DI, though. I fear that I won't be good enough or smart enough to compete with the other staff members. I'm afraid that I won't be able to handle the negative criticism that I will get during my time there. I know I need this experience to learn and become a better journalist, but I sort of feel like I won't love journalism as much as I do now if I am constantly under a huge amount of pressure. I get stressed out extremely easily, if you haven't noticed. I have 2 story pitches due by the 15th, so if those go well I think my nerves will settle down, but we'll see how it goes.

I'm not looking forward to saying goodbye to a few of my friends, though. I don't handle things like that very well and I've grown apart from a lot of people in the last year, but I have a good feeling about sophomore year at Iowa. I feel like it will be great. I'm going to make sure it is.

Oh looky here, Channing Tatum has his shirt off. I gotsta go.