Day 1: Success!

Sometime back in February, I landed an editing internship with a horse magazine called Dressage Today. I started Dressage lessons when I was about 14 or 15, and I spent many hours of my high school career reading the magazine. I always knew that I wanted horses in my life, but I thought I would have to give up riding to a certain extent in college to dedicate myself to my studies. I wanted to incorporate both riding and school, but I figured that I should focus on school and get a degree so that someday I could afford to do horses on the side. But when I decided I wanted to go into magazine editing, my dream of incorporating my professional life with my horse life started to become a reality. I emailed Dressage Today, willingly offered my expertise in exchange for the opportunity of a lifetime, and they were happy to accept my help.

Today was Day 1! Let me provide a brief outline of what my day looked like. Actually, I should maybe start with the day before today, just so you can fully grasp the scope of today.

Yesterday:
7:00 a.m. Wake up
10:30 a.m. Leave house to run approx 547 errands
5:00 p.m. Arrive at home to make pizza dough for dinner
5:30–7:00 p.m. Run more errands
7:00-8:00 p.m. Make and eat dinner
8:00–8:30 Breathe
8:30 Realization that I don't have clean clothes or anything sensible to wear to internship
8:30-11:00 Laundry and Packing
11:00 Bedtime routine + journal chronicling of night before internship
11:30 attempt to sleep

Today:
12:15 a.m. Actual time of sleep
12:15–5:00 a.m. Worrying about waking up in time for internship/restless night's sleep
5:00–6:15 a.m. Wake up, dress, forget hairbrush, belt, PJs, leave for internship
6:15-9:45 a.m. Driving and traffic
9:45 Arrive at destination! Thank you Magellan!
9:50 Locate office, realize that no one remembered I was starting my internship today. Hmm, FAIL.
10:00 Decide that managing editor is very nice and I will forgive them for not knowing I was coming
10:30 started logging topics from back issues
11:00 Assigned first article! Wahoo I'm a real equine journalist!
2:30 Finally eat Wawa hoagie that has gotten warm in my car despite the ice packs I wedged it between.
4:30 Leave office
4:45 Arrive at host family's house. Graciously greeted
5:20–8:00 p.m. Drive around Gaithersburg aimlessly, do some shopping, pick up items I forgot at home (i.e. hairbrushes), eat some Chipotle
8:00–9:30 Facebooking (of course)
9:30–10:30 Talk to mom on phone, decide that I should start studying for the GRE even though I'm running on 4 hours of sleep
10:30 p.m. Realization that I have to blog about my internship and starting tomorrow is out of the question. Must start now and keep eyelids open with tape or superglue because blogging must get done.

So that's pretty much my last 36 hours in a nutshell. I'm not totally sure how/why I'm still awake. I should have gone to bed 2 hours ago. But my first day as an editing intern for Dressage Today was so much better than I ever could have dreamed! I get to literally eat, sleep, breathe horses for the next 2 months as my job. That's all I do and talk about all day. Pretty great, right? I think so. The only thing better would be some sleep. I think I'm going to fix that right now...

10:56 p.m. Finished writing blog. Decided to go to bed.