Thursday 11/11

Once again I didn't start class until 12:30 so my day began with a bike ride.

I rode past an old billboard that was for sale as seen by the big sign that covered over the phone number that read "For Sale." I thought about buying the billboard and expanding on it. In the state that it was in it would be difficult to read from the road. I imagined buying the space after doing some research and determining if I could expand the billboard. If I could I would buy it tomorrow, and discover who drives down I-540 more often, and upon determining that nearly %100 of the people who viewed my billboard drive regularly then I would lease the billboard to some car repair shop in Fayetteville. If the economy would take a turn then my investment would pay off and I would begin a long illustrious career of buying and selling different forms of media for advertising purposes.

I suppose this is how I am to know that media and how it is bought and sold interests me. When I as in high school one of my teachers told me to never make my passion into a career, because if I turned my passion into a vehicle for making money then I would loose what I loved about that passion. I have determined that my two passions are cooking and the outdoors. Cooking is probably one of the best and most useful passions to have. My love of the outdoors probably stems from my childhood when the back yard was my playground. I may have more passions but I have not come up with any more so far.

So I don't think that writing and media are my passions. That is not to say that I don't like both of them. I have written before for fun. I won't deny it. I will go so far as to say that I may have written poetry at one point in time with some song lyrics sprinkled in there. Writing is fun. It's creative. Am when it gets down to it I think I am an okay writer. I think that I am somewhat interesting. I have always believed in writing outside the lines. I like procrastinating and writing off the cuff. And as far as media in general is concerned, I like the newspaper and if a hard copy of the New York Times, Arkansas Democrat Gazette, or Wall Street Journal is ever made obsolete then I will be very sad.