More Free Beer

Free Beer is coming out tomorrow at the Creative Communications magazine trade fair. Between noon and 4 pm the Red River College Exchange District Campus will transform into a fun atmosphere with the magazine booths all vying for your attention. In past years there has been bowling, video games, social spreads and the not quite legal bales of hay.

Coming down will earn you a ton of snacks, beverages and entertainment.

The Free Beer magazine booth will offer beer-pairing advice, snacks, root beer sampling and kicking it old school with your favourite video game from childhood.

Bring a friend, bring your children or just bring yourself.

See you tomorrow!

Piling up in style

I’m in week, whatever week it is in school, and it’s getting intense. The ability for me to pump out work is getting to be tremendous. I just wrote out a list of things to get done this weekend and I don’t even know where I’ll find the time to sleep. I love the feeling of this ‘nonstopiness’ from my first insane three-week road trip to last year’s weirdly busy-ness of balancing work, travel, and my continual trek to improve, but now my head’s exploding with life—in the best way possible—but exploding none-the-less!

Two weeks, two weeks until x-mas break, the end of semester is so near yet so far away.

Already thinking about the big event a friend and I are planning for February, about my Independent Professional Project for school next year, about the magazine project next semester and an internship for the summer.

When things have a way of piling up it puts life into perspective; It focuses me. I’m glad for this school assigned blog; it’s a mandatory way to put my thoughts out there for people to read, to be vulnerable.

I’ve never actively lived so far in the future. I LOVE it!

What is grit?

Being out of school for so long, it has been a challenge coming back. Multiple times I have thought, “What have I gotten myself into?” A bad dream about a typo in my first published article, it sounds ridiculous, to not knowing how I’m going to stay ahead of all the assignments that are only going to increase in volume. But I know I can do it.

Last night I watched a TED Talk with Angela Lee Duckworth, with a Ph.D. in psychology with an interesting background. With research to back her up she proposes that it’s not IQ, nor social ability, nor financial means, that will ensure long term goals. She says it’s grit, the melding of passion and perseverance that will see you through.

This week’s blog started out as something completely different. Writing in an obnoxious pub would provide a challenge in the past. One of my biggest weaknesses perhaps strengths is my short attention span. Which has been mostly ignored since I’ve started school. Two waitresses in this pub are CreComm grads, one from Red River College, the other from a program near Toronto. I have no judgment in what they chose, but it almost feels like a waste having met so many rapidly successfully people in the past month. It actually gives me hope that there’ll be less competition after school.

What is Grit? Grit, is why I’m here, the tedium that was my work life for far too long.  Striving for something to fill my life with more than a simple job that pays well, something that I can be excited about for a long time, something I can proud of, something exciting.

Grit is why I chose a prominent Winnipegger to interview for my personality profile, why I’ve written for every edition of our school newspaper, why I’m immersing myself in the whole experience.

Agree? Disagree? What is Grit to you? Let me know.

TED conference

Intro

At 32 years. One of the craziest things things I've done. Back to school. After a 14 year sabbatical, thrown into Creative Communications at Red River College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. But that's not what this is about. The past few years a dizzy of excitement. Life experiences, travel, photography, loosing myself in.. finding myself.