Introduction to #Boomerica: 110

Juggling Act

This summer has been great. It's also been difficult in more ways than I care to remember, but it's also been the best summer of my life.

With my job at the Schaumburg Boomers taking up so much of my time, I haven't had the chance to do much else other than work, and try to recover from the long days in my downtime. But that hasn't stopped life outside of this internship from happening, a life lesson that I would be wise to remember for the long term.

Outside of my sometimes 7am-Midnight job, I've been trying to prepare for this coming school year, which may see me take a greater leadership role than ever before. Hand-in-hand with that goes getting the school paper ready and trying to set up how things will work this year, along with setting a staff that is still incomplete.

But wait, there's more.

I'm also trying my hardest to get ready for my best friend's wedding, helping plan and coordinate as much as I'm needed there, all while trying to spend quality time with my lovely fiancee and her wonderful family.

Oh yeah, and starting to plan my own wedding.

Needless to say, there aren't enough hours in a day.

I wouldn't trade this summer for anything, and it has taught me so much about things far greater than how to be a sports PR writer, but that doesn't mean it hasn't been overly trying at times. Sometimes the lessons that we learn the most from come in the most difficult ways.

Right now, I hope to be doing three things:

1. Setting up a solid future. Paying my dues now to earn a better life later.

2. Solidifying relationships. All of them. Showing how much even a few minutes mean to me if I'm spending it with someone else.

3. Learning. Everything I possibly can.

This post may seem a bit redundant from my earlier musings, but that doesn't take away its place as possibly the biggest thing I'm learning now, and maybe forever.

Now on to more internshippy stuff:

This week The Onion was in the building to shoot a commercial. That was a really cool experience. And Andrew Luck is quite large.

I'm learning to be more independent, finding things to do when my supervisor is too busy to assign every task.

I've sold two luxury suites to clients in the past two weeks. Technically three, but two under my name. That's a pretty cool feeling.

The idea of my player feature piece in the program is quite exciting. And I'm not even done with it yet. I hope to spearhead an effort to get the piece online with pictures, video, and the full 900-word article.

The lost-and-found spreadsheet is working. We haven't returned anything in the last week, but everyone seems to know how it works and who to go to: me. I'll chalk that one up to Conference Services experience.

We're about to embark on eight games in seven days. Geesh. This is going to test everyone in every way.

I want to do one more big thing before my time is over (in less than a month). Not sure what that is yet, but I'll figure it out.

I get to be Coop three more times.

Let's do this.