Introducing Amy...

I was inspired by Kristin’s introduction to tell a little about myself as well, even though I do know all the current members of the club. Maybe in the future I won’t, or maybe I can at least share some things you might not know about me.

I have been living back in my hometown of Woodinville for almost a year now. I used to struggle on a daily basis with the fact that I’m back home, not because it’s been a bad experience but because I felt like I was behind in life or something – I don’t have a full-time job and I’m renting my old room from my parents. But I am fully confident that this is where I’m supposed to be in life right now, that it won’t be like this forever, and that I am so extremely blessed that I enjoy my job and I have a great opportunity to live with my family right now (and we even get along! Yay!). And I’ve gone through a turnaround to not pine for a different way of life, but to accept where I’m at and even to embrace it.

I’m following the format of Kristin’s bio here, so let’s see…I have two part-time jobs, one that runs from April through September (baseball season) and one that runs from late August through May (school year). Both involve sports media, so I’m in the area of my career interest and hoping to eventually work my way up. My bachelor’s degree is in both print and TV journalism, although I haven’t written a published news article in more than five years now. After I burn out on the media world, my hope is to go back to school and get a master’s (not sure what field) and a teaching certificate and teach high school journalism. That means the master’s will probably need to be in English so I would be qualified to supplement my teaching with English classes – and I’m not quite sure how I feel about that.

Interests: Books, baseball, baking, organizing (ran out of B words), copying others’ craft ideas, watching too much television, attempting to write clever things, hanging out with high school kids, embroidery, trying to make embroidery cool.

OK, I do have some thoughts on the book so far, so one of these days I’ll post them. Until then…