Summer Classes at UWO

You might be asking, "why would I waste my summer taking classes if I don't have to?" I understand that most people don't take a summer class unless they have to so they can graduate on time or something. But honestly, theres a much better reason to take a summer class or two than that.

Being a senior about to graduate, I completely understand in hind-sight how I could have eased my class load each semester by taking a summer course every now and then. I had a couple of semesters that were really busy when they didn't have to be. If just for the simple incentive that you could have a really lax last semester of college, you should totally take a summer course.

Another example of why its a good idea is because some classes can just be more beneficial if you take them in the summer when you have more time on your hands. My boyfriend had to take that Active Lifestyle course and he did it during the summer. Not only did he actually have the time to go work out (which usually neither of us do during the regular semester) but he formed a legit workout routine and stuck to it all summer.

So even if you don't necessarily need to take a summer course, you should really think about it. It could mean the different between having a manageable semester--and therefore better grades--or not.

My blog has moved!

Hey readers! So my blog has now officially moved to Wordpress! Here's the link:

http://malloryjacobson.wordpress.com/

Its really cool and SUPER organized :) I love it! Don't mean to talk shit about Blogger, but seriously--I don't know why people use Blogger after now using Wordpress! It's so much more modern and easy to troubleshoot. So check it out if you haven't already!

Anyway, keep following my blog please, see you on Wordpress!

Winter Break

Well hi hello! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. I know I did :)

Honestly, I really just want to pop on here and update those of you who actually do read my blog on what I've been up to for the past couple of weeks. I was really hoping to have some leisurely time to write a few epic blogs (which I still hope to do!), but so far I've been pretty damn busy.

First off, the whole reason I'm here in Duluth is to intern at the Animal Allies Humane Society. I spend a few hours every day working on video production and social media stuff for them. Here, you can check out my first video for them:

I'm really enjoying putting my skills to work for something I really care about. But yeah, other than doing that video, I'm working on the next couple simultaneously while also drafting up social media plans for them. Its so much fun so far.

Aside from Animal Allies, I've been busy doing social media work for my job with UMatter. I've been making a directory of custom profile pics, social media plans, and now I'm creating our blog. The blog is turing out so awesome! I love it! You bet your ass I'll be posting links to it like CRAZY once I'm done with it. Here's a taste of what it'll look like:

So I've been busy with that, making headers and custom social media buttons, organizing the blog and re-designing the layout of it. Should be pretty awesome when all is said and done. I actually was inspired by a city memorial here in Duluth and I have a blog all written and waiting to be posted. If you're interested, just google the name of the memorial and you can read about it. Here's some pics from the memorial:




But my stay here in Duluth has most certainly not been all work and no play. I'm here with my boyfriend Ben of course--he's interning at the Northland's News Center in Creative Services. If you're curious about what he's doing, you can check out his Vimeo page, he updates it constantly. But we've been having fun, we love it here in Duluth. We had fun checking out Bentleyville...

And we had a pretty good New Years Eve at home. We watched 2012, had homemade pizza, and had some margaritas. It was a good time. I'll spare you the photos of that night :P

We've blown through the sixth season of Bones and 2 seasons of Friends. Next on the docket is to finish of season 2 of Parenthood and then tackle season 3 of Sons of Anarchy. LOVE IT! And we've been renting movies from Mr. Movies like crazy. Its what we do on breaks. Catch up of the TV and movies we don't have time for during the semester. Oh and more importantly, I finally finished Lost!!!!! Such an epic show, its blows my mind. I cried like 4 separate times. It was amazing. Confusing, and amazing.

Anyway, that pretty much what break has been like so far for me. I'm hoping to help re-do the FB page for the BCMCC, which is a pretty sweet bassoon competition one of my music professors created. And I'm also working long distance to organize a concert with my friend Sierra for our little concert production team Oshkosh Underground. Aaaand I'm putting together guidelines for doing freelance web design for musicians.

So I keep pretty busy between all those projects. Can you blame me for not blogging? I'm still in the process of deciding what to do with this blog. I want to move it to Wordpress, but I also want to create a personal website on Wordpress and integrate my blog into that, so I'm trying to get that all sorted out. So much crap! But I love it :) And I'll keep you updated on where I go, blog wise.

Thanks for listening to my ramblings folks! Stay warm and rock on!

Updates!

So the Fall semester is finally almost over! Which means I'll be able to regularly blog again for like 2 months before Spring semester gets crazy busy. I have lots of awesome topics in mind so keep an eye out for that.

Update #2: I might be moving my blog to Wordpress in a couple of weeks. I took a Web Design class this semester and was more thoroughly introduced to Wordpress (I've blogged there briefly in the past for a job) and I really love how its managed. I'd probably upload my past blogs from here, so there won't be any loss of old blogs. I really just want to nerd out over organizing it. I can basically make my own blog website. Words cannot describe how excited that makes me. Yes, I know, I am a dork.

So keep your eyes peeled for those developments! Happy finals to any fellow students out there and I hope you all have an epic transition into winter break :) I'll be bloggin' from Duluth, MN next time I'm here so see you in Duluth!

Rock on

Kicking the Habit

Well, hello folks! Sorry I haven't blogged in so long :( I've been so busy with school, it is insane. I figured I'd post something quick, just for fun! This is a feature radio piece I produced in my Advanced Radio Production course at UW-Oshkosh. It actually won a couple of awards: 1st place at the Wisconsin Broadcaster's Association in the Long Form Production Non-News Category (2010) as well as 1st place at the National Broadcast News Association in the Soft Feature (Student Market Radio) in 2010.

It's about my journey as a smoker, and how I quit. It's got some fun music and honest writing, so check it out!

Hope you liked it! Let me know your thoughts, I love getting feedback :D Rock on!

Paramore "Singles Club"

Being the huge Paramore fan that I am, I have to blog about this: Paramore is releasing new songs! I could not be more excited!!!!!!

You can go to the Fueled By Ramen webstore to check out the different sets you can purchase. I am so stoked, you have no idea! I love their newest song "Monster," but I am just so curious and excited to see what they sound like with just the 3 of them now. If you don't follow the band, their lead guitarist and drummer left the band this past winter, so its kind of a big deal to see what the band will become. "Monster" indicates good things in my book, and I already love "In the Mourning" even just from the video of Hayley and Taylor jammin together. Check it out:

It's really cool how they're releasing the songs too. If you go buy it now, you can download "Renegade," but you have to wait for the other 2, which will be "Hello Cold World" in November and "In the Mourning" in December. I sadly have to wait for $ to transfer into my bank account before I can go buy it! I cannot CANNOT wait though. Rock on Paramore fans.

Pumpkin Bread Recipe!

So it seems that I'm making it a habit of only posting about movies and music. Understandable, seeing as how much I love them both and they are both integrated in my schooling and everyday life. But there is more to my interests that just those things. I actually love to bake. In high school, the only thing I knew how to make was lemon poppy seed bread (in a bundt pan) and my friend Janae made weekly requests for it!

I think its the methodic nature of baking that makes me love it so much. There's just something so fun and calming and organized about measuring everything out, mixing it and seeing something yummy come out in the end. So I thought I'd share a recipe with you! Here's a nice fall recipe and its one of my favorites! It's pretty simple, but super yummy. Enjoy :D

Pumpkin Bread

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 cup pumpkin puree
• 1/2 cup olive oil
• 2 eggs, beaten
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
• 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1/2 teaspoon allspice

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Sift together the flour, salt, sugar, and baking soda.

Mix the pumpkin, oil, eggs, water and spices together, then combine the dry ingredients, but too not mix too thoroughly.

Pour into a well-buttered 9x5x3 inch loaf pan. Bake 50-60 minutes until a thin skewer poked into the very center of the loaf comes out clean. Turn out of the pan and let cool on rack.

Yields one loaf

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Fun tip: if you want the bread to taste more cinnamon-y, double the amount of cinnamon. Tastes sooo good! This is one of my favorite things to bake because it just smells so damn good the whole way through! And it tastes good obviously ;P

Hope you enjoy it! I'll post more recipes along the way as I find more favorites. I have like 4 other things I love to bake so if you want to know them, just comment and I'll post em. Do you like my recipe? Or do you have a better one? Comment away! Rock on folks.