Can I please go back to being a college student?

OK. I slacked. I admit it.But finishing up senior year at UF took up more time than expected, focusing all my efforts on Business Finance and Orange and Blue magazine, which still isn’t yet fully finished. Yes, I’ve already graduated. Yes, I’ve already got my grades–rocked a 4.0 by the way: (Maybe now that I’ve figured out how to do this whole college thing I should just start over?) Yes, I’m still working on finishing a school project. Why? Because the world needs to see this magazine. Watch out, Skin. Black is back.

So, needless to say, after my 12 hour days and frequent all-nighters in Weimer Hall, the last thing that I wanted to do was come home and spend even more time on a computer. Plus, at some point, I needed to sleep. But, now that I’ve landed a full-time salary job with benefits–yes, it’s totally possible my fellow grads of 2009–my schedule is loosened. No more club meetings, no more school projects, no more part-time waitressing. When I get done at 5 p.m., I’m actually done with work for the day. My weekends will no longer be spent serving people Italian food. This is a whole new way of living!

So, in an effort to create some deadlines and keep good on my posts with Rock Ridge Music, I’m staring a new weekly series: New Music Mondays. My nightstand is overflowing with CDs from Rock Ridge Music, aching to be reviewed, and it’s a shame that it’s taken me this long to start sifting through the masses. But, here goes nothing. Plus, my job has absolutely nothing to do with music, and while my sights are still set on Jann Wenner’s job one day, keeping some sort of weekly music writing isn’t going to hurt my chances of scoring a position–any position–at Rolling Stone.

New Music Mondays starts tomorrow. Future posts on the job–assistant editor at Atlantic Publishing Company if you were interested–and the newest addition to the Everhart family, my amazing Austrilian Terrier Jax are soon to come.