My name is Renae and I'm 21 years old. About two months ago, I moved completely across the country from Massachusetts to Los Angeles, California. This is the first time I've lived outside of New England and only the second time I've ever been to California.
So, why am I here, hundreds of miles away from my Irish-Catholic/Mixed bag family? I'm in my senior year of college, so the time has come for me to do my internship. Every student in the Communications Media program at my college is required to complete a full-time semester long internship in their concentration. My concentration is Video Production, but having discovered that I actually wanted to be working on motion pictures, I'm working as a development intern for film producers until I graduate in May.
I chose to work in development for my internship because it's what I thought I wanted to do. It combines picking apart other peoples' writing and film, without having to write myself. After all, I'm a terrible writer myself and couldn't an original idea out of my head to save my life. I'm much better at analyzing and discovering why other people's writing sucks. But now, I'm thinking that I have another calling.
I'm not meant to sit at a desk, doing the same thing over and over. I'm meant to be up and doing things. I've been thinking about going back to school for film restoration and archiving, or... more simply, saving old movies. However, graduate school is two or three years off and I'm determined to do something worthwhile with the time I've been given. One of my bosses at my internship asked me what my mission statement was and my off-the-cuff reply was, "Be the best at everything ever."
So, where to start?
I don't know yet, really.
I suppose starting this blog is a way for me to decompress and express this underlying fear that I have each day. I don't know what I'll be writing about, just what ever comes to mind, I suppose. After all, I'm bound to do something with my life, it's just a matter of figuring out that big first step.
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