Another late night

So here it is past 2 am again and guess what . . . I can't sleep! I know it's the called the city that never sleeps, but I didn't think I would take to the meaning so quickly! I can't stop my mind from going over and over what I have to do and all that I have not even begun to think about. Then my mind turns to my upcoming interviews and then it really starts to race. I know they are still a couple of weeks out, but I can't help but dwell on them. And of course it's never during the middle of the afternoon when nothing decent is on tv or when I have 20 blocks to walk and a good 15 minutes to kill while doing so. No! It's when I'm lying in bed late at night attempting to sleep like the rest of the world outside the city. Oh well.

Next week marks the 10th anniversary of Princess Diana's death, and it's got me thinking about all the things I've witnessed over the past few years. I still can't believe she's been gone for that long. I remember it like it was last week. Time literally stood still for that entire week in disbelief. The impact that one woman was able to make on the world makes me wonder in awe at what we could all be capable of doing. I realized how much I had witnessed and/or experienced over the past year working in the newsroom - Tennessee voting down an amendment to allow same sex marriage, a For almost making it into the Senate, Saddam Hussein's execution, the deadly plane crash in Kentucky that left everyone but the pilot who caused the crash dead, the murder of a UT student just a few miles from where I slept, and of course the deadly hit and run on campus last year. And that's just off the top of my head! It makes me wonder what else I have left to experience in my life and at times I'm excited for the good things, but scared for the bad. But that's what life brings with it. I was reading on a website today about a release party in Vegas for Celine Dion's new album coming out in a few months, and she was quoted as saying, "It's the moment you think you can't, you discover you can" and for some reason that just hit me right smack between the eyes. I continue to have my days with doubt, while others I am more than sure of a great success that is out there just out of reach. For those who know me, I was born with little if any patience, so this waiting game is killing me, but what's a girl to do but wait?