Hey everyone!
So I am going to attempt to do Blog Every Day April (BEDA) this year. I have a bad track record with trying to do BEDA so I'll probably fail miserably again this year. BUT I wont get anywhere if I don't TRY, right? My main goal is to just blog every day this month. I may not be always talking about book stuff but I'll try really hard!
In case you don't know me or don't remember me, here is a basic introduction:
I am 22 years old and live in Southern CA, I've lived in the same town my entire life. I am part beach girl and part bookworm but the bookworm has been winning the past few years! I'm part of the YouTube group call FiveAwesomeYAFans, we vlog about bookish/YA things and started back in fall '08. I've had this blog since January '09 and I love blogging, even if I do take a few months off at a time.
I used to be a Global Studies major (kind of like International Studies, lots of Political Science with a huge language requirement). I took 5 quarters of Italian plus a few years of private lessons. I can understand, read, and write a lot but my speaking skills aren't as good as I'd like. I also took two quarters of Spanish for the language requirement but Spanish was my 1st language so it was easy. We only spoke Spanish at home until I was about 6(ish) and then I refused to speak it but I understand about 75-80% of most Spanish.
When I had only a year left to finish my major, I decided to leave my school and pursue a degree in Marketing. Now I'm a Marketing major! I'm the Marketing intern an airport (don't ask which one, I'd like to keep my exact location somewhat unknown) and president of my school's Marketing Club. I'm pretty much in love with Marketing! I love working at the airport, I get to do all of their social networking (Twitter, facebook) and work on more traditional marketing (newsletter, marketing an event, and more).
I write a lot and plan to be a published author someday in the YA arena. Reading has help my writing SO MUCH! I've tried NaNoWriMo a few times but November is such a busy month for me. Last NaNo ('10), I got about a third the way into my goal before I started a new job that required a lot of my time. I haven't finished anything that I feel comfortable with querying but I'm okay with that. I don't have this undying need to be published by a certain date. It may be in a few years or maybe in twenty, but either way it'll happen someday.
My other interests include: sewing, photography, reading (of course!), baking, Doctor Who, Harry Potter, dancing (native California days dances from 1800-1850's, mostly folk dances), marketing, and more!
You can find me on:
Twitter: @Genevieve_Thurs
Facebook: Genevieve Thursday
Tumblr: Genviehoney (Vie, Amore, and Me)
Oh, and in case you were wondering, Thursday is not my last name. It's just the name I use for blogging/vlogging. I'm Thursday on FiveAwesomeYAFans! I started using as a fake last name ages ago and it just kind of stuck.
I'm looking forward to April! Let me know if you're participating in BEDA or VEDA (Vlog Every Day April), I'll check out what you're doing.
More later,
Genevieve
3 comments:
I did VEDA in August. I missed a few days, but I did pretty well for the most part. I bet you can do better :)
Also, I don't know if you noticed, but I'm doing VEDA... we'll see how that goes.
I'm in. My post is here
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