The Bachelor in Florida

Hey. Been a while, huh? I've been enjoying my "book writing sabbatical" perhaps a little too much. A lot of my novel has gotten done, but there have been plenty of things over the last month I easily could have blogged about. I was almost completely by myself for three weeks as Mom and Aly …

The… Anti-Summer 2018 Initiative?

Greetings and salutations. As you may have noticed, things have been a little different around here recently. A little more barren. Don't worry, it's not a symptom of finally running out of ideas. I did that about a year ago and wrote about my pencil set. Nor is it some delusion that my Naruto-Arena post …

Alumni business

While a lot of this happened yesterday, I spent extra time throwing things together for a more fleshed out blog post now. Just after Graduation a few weeks ago, I joined the Cal State Fullerton Alumni Association. https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1130923180040736768?s=21 See? Tweeted and everything to prove it. After a good amount of time spent resting, helping with …

Statistically surpassing 2017

About three days ago, the amount of views my blog has accrued this year surpassed the total from 2017. With a lead-in sentence like that I'm sure you're expecting this post to be an exercise in prideful self-fellatio. To an extent I suppose it is, but part of the reason why it's cool is because …

My Senior Honors Project debrief

These graduation milestones are really starting to gear up. Today's adventure took me out to Fullerton with my parents so I could officially give my Senior Honors Project presentation. It has been literal years in the making. After I spent some time reflecting on my novel and compiling the work behind it into a PowerPoint, …

The last Comm Awards

It has been a long 12-hour day, so let's keep this brief. Tonight was the Department of Communications Awards Ceremony for the year of our lord 2019. Last year I attended the ceremony with Mom and had a great time. Won a few scholarships while I was at it. Only my Mom was able to …

Tales from a digital voice

With the end of the semester coming up, we had our last big Society of Professional Journalists event today. It was another guest speaker: Sonya Quick from the nonprofit Voice of OC. Plus donuts. But the donuts unfortunately did not get into this Tweet I did: https://twitter.com/jdrochlin/status/1118629622063611904 This talk was slightly less hands-on than our last guest's …

Giving back

Happy Homestuck day! The phenomenon may have ended a few years ago, but my friend Juan's adjustments to our group Discord server shows that it's still a holiday we celebrate. Amazing how much of an impact that webcomic has had even... Ten years later? God I'm old. Okay, let's move on before I lose my …

Pay your Copy Editors

As of tonight, I break away from classes to celebrate Spring Break 2019. It promises to be more of a workation this year. Not to say that I've ever been the hard partying Spring Breakers type in the first place, but I usually chill when I can. However, 2019 is throwing all that out the …

Messin’ with the curriculum vitae

While people on my social media the night I'm writing this are probably annoyed that I'm trying to double dip on the love for my recent award, this blog post is more about creating something to show my children in 30 years. A rather grandiose fantasy that, in execution, will make my reference to a …