defeated*

In reality, time has defeated me. I have been in Orlando for almost 2 months and my blogging has been lacking motivation. When you wake up everymorning and do the same day over and over again, you fear no one will find it interesting enough to come and read about. Relevant Magazine has been busy and I have forgotten about this blog multiple times until a dear friend reminds me that I suck at updates.

The last 2 weeks have been a series of goodbyes as some of the interns are leaving. The first goodbye was the friday before last, when Jen left to go back to her home in Missouri. We went to the Cheesecake Factory ( where I ran into a family from my home church in Connecticut that I have known since forever) and had a marvelous time laughing and spending quality intern time together. What I am most thankful for this summer is the great group of friends I have made. This group of interns are like peas in pod. When Friday comes around everyone, in agreement, are wondering what we will be doing this weekend. Last weekend, I apologize for not writing about this in timely fashion, we decided Cocoa Beach would be the best idea. So we drove to the beach, got there a tad bit later than we wanted, and soaked up the rays. Along the way we saw dozens of dead armadillos, a styrofoam turtle on top of a moving van, and loads of random moments. The beach was absolutely beautiful. I feel as if no beach in Florida will give you a bad beach. Cocoa Beach was blue waters and soft sandy beaches. Warning, the sand on the beach is hotter than you could ever stand. The water was clear and refreshing yet, almost bathwater warm. This to me is a big plus since northeast beaches are dark, cold, and filled with seaweed. We had about one hour of good beach weather before a storm came in and rained us out. I was a bit saddened since I was just about to zone out in the world of ipod and tanning. The seven of us then decided we couldn’t visit Cocoa without visiting Ron Jon Surf Shop. The storm did grow worse and as we were driving home we saw tons of lightning and loud thunder that was quite cinematic.

Later that evening, even though we had been together all day, we decided to meet up for pizza and a movie. After everyone was showered and refreshed we gathered together to watch a theatrical masterpiece, Mean Girls. It was funny to watch in mixed company, because most of us are way past high school and still we found this extremely entertaining.

This past week at Relevant has been busy and slow all at once. I have still been rolling through story graphics and helping with graphics for the new Relevant Store website. I also have been working on various random things as well. Tuesday was Steven’s last day, so we went out to Tijuana Flats to celebrate his summer. He flew back home to Indonesia for the first time in four years. I haven’t been home since January and I feel like that is much too long, so I can imagine his anxiety to get home. We will miss steven alot! He was like the calmest guy you would ever meet and an amazing designer. Friday was one really busy day. In the morning I was given the assignment to come up with an ad for Zondervan TNIV Study bible. I was given the copy, headline, and call to action so another intern and I had to come up with the creative. It was alot of fun, but there was alot of pressure. We needed to have everything almost done by the end of the day. We went out downtown and shot the product shots for the ad and did everything. Hannah is one amazing photographer, so she helped me out big time. Despite the time crunch we were able to get it done, now all that is left is getting the fine tuning done before we send it to Zondervan for approval to be printed. With magazine deadline like, tuesday, it should be a hectic monday. I can’t wait..

here are some pictures to showcase friday….note most of these are for my personal use*