Super Stressed

If there's a word that exists for "beyond stressed out", I would like to insert it here.

I know that I'm focusing on Journalism in school. I know that I'm interning at a TV station. I know that I ultimately want to work somewhere in the news force. But currently, 2 classes and my internship are bogging me down with having to go out and get interviews--for different things--all under deadline.

For Magazine Writing, we're conducting an investigation on plagiarism. Right, you already know that. I interviewed an English professor here. That went well. I contacted the chair of the English department at Clark and she said she was really busy, so she agreed to a phone interview yesterday. It was okay, but I didn't get everything I was looking for once I listened to the recording again, but now she says she's too busy to do a follow-up interview. I contacted another professor from Clark last week, and she only got back to me yesterday that she's very crunched for time and can't do an interview this week.
COME ON PEOPLE. I intern at Channel 3, and I see them get interviews like it's a piece of cake. In fact. I interviewed the Mayor the other week. Me. Yeah. I interviewed the MAYOR, and a few professors can't even put down their pencil to talk to me. People will drop what they're doing for 2 seconds and talk to a "real" reporter, but they can't even sit down for a phone interview, which, mind you, is not even what we're supposed to be doing--I'll get points off for that... It's pissing me off.

Besides all that drama, and stress, and nonsense, I have to start doing interviews for another radio show.

Besides that, I'm interning at Channel 3--3 nights a week now, just so I can build up more clips to send out to stations in hopes of someone trying to set up a job interview with me. And if I were even lucky enough to get a job interview, I'd have trouble putting it into my schedule because of everyone else's schedules that I need to work around.

Besides that, I'm trying to write an article for the Provoc.

Besides that, I'm still trying to edit things for Thoreau's Rooster.

A number of people I vented to suggested that I make up interviews to get these assignments done. I wanted to slap them in the face.

Does anyone understand how unprofessional, and downright stupid it is to make up interviews? Agh.

I know I should get used to the stress. Reporters have to go out and get loads of interviews in one day. But they're focused on one subject. They don't have 6 classes under their belts. They're already secure in a job. They can go home at night and turn on the TV instead of freak out at their computer, thinking that they still need to read for advertising after they post this blog entry, and pray that the student from Clark they just emailed will get back to them for a face to face interview Thursday morning.

Are you stressed out reading this?