• New Bolle sunglasses ($70-100)
• New monitor for computer - 24-inch LED HDMI
• New TV - 40-50 inch
• The Men Who United the States: America's Explorers, Inventors, Eccentrics and Mavericks, and the Creation of One Nation, Indivisible by Simon Winchester
• New living room lamp
• New desk chair
• The Newsroom Season 2

• The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
• Blackout
• Finish The Hunger Games
• The Alchemist series
• The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
• The rest of the Millennium series depending on how the first ends up
• Re-read Perks

In order from greatest:

• Toy Story
• Toy Story 3
• Cars
• Up
• Toy Story 2
• The Incredibles
• Finding Nemo
• Brave
• Monsters, Inc.
• Cars 2
• A Bug's Life
• Ratatouille
• WALL-E

• A's in both summer classes
• Find a really good photo story/profile story/video story/Sunday centerpiece that will really round out my portfolio
• Data project that's really good
• Don't kill people
• Go see Hannah!
• Redo website
• Wineries!
• Read (I need to make a list)

Story Ideas

Everything Else

• Journalism organizations
• Journalism publication reviews

Convergence

• Web first, print last
• Effective infographics

i. When to use infographics (too much info in story – see band)

• Shooting and writing a convergence package

Design

a. Print

i. Newspaper and Magazine

ii. Yearbook

• InDesign tips – manually placing pictures, grouping objects, aligning properly, column spacing, indention, etc. (Maybe a ...

• Yellowstone National Park
• Grand Teton National Park
• Rocky Mountain National Park
• Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
• Busch Stadium
• Galveston Beach
• Johnson Space Center
• Walt Disney World Resort
• Six Flags Over Mid America
• Six Flags Over Texas
• Astrodome
• San Antonio River Walk
• Alamo
• Vail, Colorado
• Steamboat Springs, Colorado
• Gardens of the Gods - Colorado Springs
• Blue Eye, Arkansas
• United States Air Force Academy
• Maroon Bells
• Gothic Road/Gunnison National Forest
• San Francisco

• CIS461 Test Wednesday
• Figure out graduation stuff (invites, declaring, etc.)

News

• How the state budget comes together - from the Governor to the legislature to the funds being sent out
• Online courses - why are they being pushed, why do they cost more, is the learning the same, do some courses actually work better online, why/are students being pushed out of the classroom? (Would be a cool enterprise investigative piece)
• Cofer - what's the real story? -- if he'll talk
• Safest neighborhoods in Springfield - data journalism (in progress)
• Best schools in Springfield - go through and color code MAP and ACT scores (probably MAP?)

Sports

• Budget breakdown of every sport to find out what makes money and what doesn't; state funds; fundraising - data journalism
• Trend on the MVC - just how strong is the Valley this yea...

• Portraits
• Lighting sports portraits
• Portraits
• Strobing a gym with PocketWizards and two flashes
  • Four flashes
• Portraits
• Remoting baseball

• Family
• Friends
• Snowy winter days
• Warm spring days
• Having fun!
• Christmas
• Having parties with friends and family
• Laughter
• Concern
• Challenges
• Victories
• Making someone happy
• Pictures
• Writing random things

• Alabama
• Alaska
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• California
• Colorado
• Connecticut
• Delaware
• Florida
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• Illinois
• Indiana
• Iowa
• Kansas
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Maryland
• Massachusetts

• http://hofferphotography.com/blog/
• http://www.pdnphotooftheday.com/2010/02/...
• http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_dis...
• http://www.fredmiranda.com/forum/topic/9...

Resources: Flash

• http://super.nova.org/DPR/Canon/MultiCan...