Day 23 of 1000

Kelly’s blog is getting very, very interesting and will attract a following as soon as people figure out that she is writing AND illustrating here very other worldly experience at the community college.  The writing is great, but she is getting to be quite a good caricaturist, too.  There is a summer journalism program she wants to attend that requires her to, among other things, keep a topical blog and write some newspaper articles.  She submitted her first article to the school newspaper and has an opportunity lined up with the Albany Democrat Herald where we used to live in Oregon.  She is engaged and definitely working hard on all this.

The article that goes with the drawing at the left is titled Science Fiction and is quite good.  I definitely need to show her how to use the new scanner so that we can get better images of the things she draws.  I think I will try to do that tonight.  She continues to draw and definitely wants to get her Betty Blonde comic going again even if it is only one day per week.  The problem is that with 17 credit hours that include Calculus III and a bunch of classes that require lots of writing and reading, she does no have a whole lot of time.  She really needs to continue her caricaturing because it makes her blog so much more attractive.  And, of course, she has an active social life, too, so that is distracting and time consuming, too.

We had a super talk about her career path last night.  She knows where she is going and has headed up the path–a hard degree first (math and statistics) followed by a journalism or political science graduate degree at the best school that will accept her interspersed with whatever internships and special summer programs she can find and where they will accept her.  I mentioned that she does not have to do it this way.  It would be fine to do something completely different.  She confirmed that this is, in fact, exactly what she wants to do–create a career path that allows her to engage in public discourse about “big” topics, cartoon, caricature, and write.