Idea.

So I got this great idea of making an online portfolio of my work...but where do I start?

I would love to make a website, purely dedicated to the pieces of written work I have produced as well as the photography I have done.

Anyone have any ideas on how I can go about doing this?

I don't want to use Geocities or whatever. I want something that doesn't look like I made it in a 7th grade computer class. I want it to look professional and be something that I would be proud to have on my resume...any ideas?

I haven't been blogging in a week or so..ahh. So much to catch up on but I will have to do that later because right now I am at work :(

Katie
Future Mayor of Louisville

The new story on MSNBC and from the St. Petersburg Times is that the Coast Guard spent $1.6 Million dollars on 2 missing NFL players and 2 other friends.

Now, here is my opinion. If those players were my family, boyfriend, best friend, etc, I would want the Coast Guard to spend money on trying to find them. And also, I would be some what aggrivated if the news critisized the Coast Guard for spending so much money and for looking so hard. Yes, yes. I get the fact that 'the economy' is not doing so hot(I am fully understanding that because I can not find a job), but I do not think it is absurd to find 4 human beings who are lost at sea and slowly dying from dehydration and hypothermia(if not already dead). $1.6 million...I think my family, boyfriend and friends are worth so much more than that(divide that by four and the Coast Guard spent $400,000 searching for each one). I would hope I am worth more than $400,000 dollars to people. And to NFL players who were found resucued, that $1.6 mil is most likely less than they make in a year, so before the newspapers go critisizing the amoutn of time, money and effort to find these four missing people, they need to think if that was them...how much is their lif worth? I know I am worth way more than $400,000, and that my family of 4 is worth way more than $1.6 million.

So, I think the $1.6 million spent was worth every penny espcially since they found one man alive. One life to me, is priceless. That is some of the best $1.6 million this country has spent in a while.


Katie
Next Most Popular Person on Twitter (Ha, I wish)

The Octo-Mommy and Obama Babies

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20264408,00.html

This is a story on the house that crazy-Angelina Jolie-wannabe just dropped around $560,000 on and how she is now getting free nurses...

So since she is getting free nursing, and have a home for her CLAN...will she be out of the news for once? I do not think this is a woman who deserves to:
1. Be newsworthy - because she is totally insane.
2. Have money given to her - setting up an internet website that accepts donations through PayPal...come on now crazy lady. Plus if I were to give money to her at all(If I had that kind of money to give) it would be for her children, and it would be paying someone to adopt them. ALL 8.
3. I am sick of hearing about her feud with her mom. I don't care. I care about this as much as I care about Sasha and Malia's first day of school's lunch(which for some reason was also 'newsworthy').
4. She doesn't deserve to have 14 kids on her own. These kids need a home that can handle them all. Sure she can love them all (maybe?) but can she handle them, especially monetarily wise?

The things that are 'newsworthy' these days such as the 'Octo-Mom' and Sasha and Malia's first days at school and their LUNCH MENU.

Don't get me wrong here, I love celebrity gossip. Tell me what Robert Pattinson is doing during the filming of new moon, show me a picture and I am hooked. But Octo-Mom and Obama's babies...No Thank You.

I'll even read about Paris Hilton because I think she is hilarious(quite possibly a really smart woman - having us all fooled and thinking she is dumb). She is someone who just messes with the media, does it for fun. She knows what she is doing. She has said it before and continues to say it - that she plays the media and creates and image of her.

That stuff I will read. If its funny or newsworthy, then throw it at me.

If it is a freaking LUNCH MENU for a Washington D.C. school that is pointless...keep that information to yourself.

When the news reaches that point you know two things are happening:
1. They are desperate.
2. The information highway is moving too fast and news sources have to stoop to stories such as those.

So, 'Octo-Mom' you are not a celebrity, you are not a political figure...you are a crazy woman who now has 14 kids and no husband or boyfriend...OR JOB! Get out of my news.

Sasha and Malia, you are kids. I can't criticize you...but new sources that report about these two...GET OVER IT. They aren't the next Kennedy's. Thanks.

Katie
Working on a hostile take over of the media.

T WILL!

"Williams scored 20 points and Louisville beat West Virginia 62-59 Saturday night to earn the top seed in what will certainly be a slugfest in the conference tournament that starts Tuesday at New York's Madison Square Garden."

A Mr. Terrence Williams, a man who's basketball skills I adore...has helped the University of Louisville go on to WIN and completely OWN the Big East Conference. We are number 1!!!

So this is a little blog to my main man T. Will.

Terrence,
This is your number one fan Katie.
You rock my freaking world!
I could watch you run the court all day.
Way to go on Saturday.
20 points..EXCELLENT!
Lead our Cards to victory baby.

Let the March Madness begin.

Peace and love,

Katie, Future UL Athletic Director

Don't read, I am just blabbing.

I will tell you right now, before you start reading, this post will be pointless.

So I am an avid checker of www.people.com and www.perezhilton.com (My IDOL) because my dumb self LOVES celebrity gossip and news. Don't ask me why, I just do. So, in checking this morning, People tells me that the new Dancing with the Stars 'celeb' will be the girl who just got accepted and then rejected from The Bachelor, Melissa Rycroft. Who is this Rycroft you might ask. Well, for most of us who quit watching The Bachelor five years ago, or never watched at all, she is the newest piece of news for reality TV. She was a contestant on The Bachelor and was proposed to at the end, and at the reunion show, she was informed that her man was wanting to be with the woman he did not choose.

That is all well and great. Rycroft is heartbroken, yadda yadda. I don't care. You set yourself up for this stuff once you put yourself on a reality DATING SHOW. And now because she was dumped, and is in her 15 minutes of fame, she has now been asked to join the DANCING WITH THE STARS CREW. WHAT?!?

Not as if you HAVE to be a HUGE celebrity in order to be on this show(hence the man who's undercarriage you saw in the SATC movie) but really...Rycroft? ABC..what are you doing. Did Holly Madison say no? Was Justin Gaston (Miley's older pedophile boyfriend) busy? You really went to a reality star who is blossoming in her 15 mins of fame? HA.

The word 'STAR' has now hit a new low. When I think STAR, I think Britney Spears, Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt...NOT Melissa Rycroft. And to be honest, I wish I never even knew who Rycroft was because she is now a waste of my memory space in my noggin.

ABC...learn how to cast shows and don't waste my brain space :)

K-RA

This Economy

So, to be honest, I have literally applied to over 40 jobs.

Dear Economy,
It's me, Katie. Why have you failed me as of right now? Because of you, companies are in 'hiring freezes' and this does not please me.

I am starting to think that I will graduate this May, with a degree and a great education and have no job. I, along with a majority of my class, will walk up to get our diploma, jobless. Upon coming to UD, they guarunteed my parents that I would walk away with a job. Then you, economy, hit, and not matter how much UD can try and help me, I do not see this job coming to me anytime soon.

I am stressed. I am sad. I am frustrated. I want to cry and will when it al really hits me. And at the same time I feel disappointed with myself, when really, I should not be. I have worked my ass off. I have a great internship and experience and sales and many other fields, and what do I get? Nothing. My optimism is slowly sinkking down the drain.

I do not want to graduate jobless and move home with mom, dad and brother. I do not want to waitress my first year. I want a real job. I want to work. I want a salary. I want benefits. I want to get my career started. I want to just grow up. And that is something that I never though I would say. But I want to be in my path. I want the job I am meant to work, I want it all and I am trying so hard and I feel so let down.

In the words of Vicki from the Real Housewives of Orange County, "I want the power and the money and I want them both." I have such a strong will and determination to succeed. I try to create my oppotunities but that is not working. I just need a break economy. I can get a job if the hiring freeze will end. Please heal yourself like Wolverine. Throw me a bone here. All I want is to get my life started after graduation. That's all I want and have ever wanted.

Love,

Katie
Future President of the Colony of the Moon