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I don't even want to talk about last week. Let me just tell you - it was horrible, each and every day, up until about last night when I went to bed at 11 p.m. There were a few moments of relief - having my conference with Carol, decorating the office with Nate, chatting on the phone with Tara and DJ - but everything else was either stressful, upsetting, hurtful, infuriating, sad or some other emotionally negative adjective. I'm just glad it's over. Tomorrow starts a new week, and I intend for it to be wonderful in comparison to this one. I don't think I could take another week like this. Thanks to everyone who tried to help reassure me and calm me down through it. :)
I just spent a couple of hours (well, five... is that "a couple"?) down at the office doing homework again. I hope it doesn't make me sick this time. It was a few less hours than last Saturday, but I'm not done yet... I figured I'd change location and try to break it up a bit. Maybe in between study sessions my immune system can build itself back up from the stress I just put on it during that five hours! It wasn't five consecutive hours, though. I have concentration issues. I called Adam to make sure he'd gotten the e-mail with all the information he needed for his story in it and then talked about how his fa05 schedule had worked out. (Turns out we're going to have two classes together in the fall. Cool!) And Jessica returned my phone call from earlier, and so we chatted about EIC stuff for a while. I did manage to finish an ethics assignment for Arny's class (thank goodness no design was involved) and do a 45-minute interview (for my social issue feature story for Carol's class) with a reporter from Business Review, an A2 News publication. She was really nice and gave me a lot of helpful advice (because we sidetracked from my questions quite a bit), and she even said that I could call her anytime during my internship if I ever needed help with anything. Yay for making connections!
Congratulations to both Jason and Sarah on excellent EIC interviews. I'll echo everyone else's comment that Nate was right - they couldn't have made a mistake. And an extra congrats to Sarah for landing the job. :)
You know how they always say that you are your own worst critic? That applies to me perfectly. I'm never happy with anything I do, and it's rather irritating at times! I was just looking over my story in Friday's paper again, and I really don't like my lead. Art (Det News copy editor who works with the Echo) liked it, and that's why I kept it, but I really wanted to add something to it because it seemed too short, or too empty, or too vague or something like that. Boo. :( Nathan still told me my story was really good, though, so I'm putting faith in that, not in myself and my foolish criticisms. :)
(Can anyone tell my why my Echo mail gets more e-mails that have subject lines like "i want to make oralsex with ma boyfriend" from senders called "can you give me a suggestion" than press releases??)
I just realized I left my watch at the office. Blast!
Hey, everyone, read Jason and Nathan's expose. :)
I just spent a couple of hours (well, five... is that "a couple"?) down at the office doing homework again. I hope it doesn't make me sick this time. It was a few less hours than last Saturday, but I'm not done yet... I figured I'd change location and try to break it up a bit. Maybe in between study sessions my immune system can build itself back up from the stress I just put on it during that five hours! It wasn't five consecutive hours, though. I have concentration issues. I called Adam to make sure he'd gotten the e-mail with all the information he needed for his story in it and then talked about how his fa05 schedule had worked out. (Turns out we're going to have two classes together in the fall. Cool!) And Jessica returned my phone call from earlier, and so we chatted about EIC stuff for a while. I did manage to finish an ethics assignment for Arny's class (thank goodness no design was involved) and do a 45-minute interview (for my social issue feature story for Carol's class) with a reporter from Business Review, an A2 News publication. She was really nice and gave me a lot of helpful advice (because we sidetracked from my questions quite a bit), and she even said that I could call her anytime during my internship if I ever needed help with anything. Yay for making connections!
Congratulations to both Jason and Sarah on excellent EIC interviews. I'll echo everyone else's comment that Nate was right - they couldn't have made a mistake. And an extra congrats to Sarah for landing the job. :)
You know how they always say that you are your own worst critic? That applies to me perfectly. I'm never happy with anything I do, and it's rather irritating at times! I was just looking over my story in Friday's paper again, and I really don't like my lead. Art (Det News copy editor who works with the Echo) liked it, and that's why I kept it, but I really wanted to add something to it because it seemed too short, or too empty, or too vague or something like that. Boo. :( Nathan still told me my story was really good, though, so I'm putting faith in that, not in myself and my foolish criticisms. :)
(Can anyone tell my why my Echo mail gets more e-mails that have subject lines like "i want to make oralsex with ma boyfriend" from senders called "can you give me a suggestion" than press releases??)
I just realized I left my watch at the office. Blast!
Hey, everyone, read Jason and Nathan's expose. :)