So today was pretty good. I slept in latelatelate. I ate donuts. I played with my niece and nephew. I played some online poker. I got a job. I ate pizza. I watched Last Comic Standing and Top Chef. And, did I mention that I got a job? Because I got a job! Igotajob! igotajobigotajobigotajob. I! GOT! A! JOB! igotajobigotajobigotajobigotajob. Breathe. . . I. . . breathe. . . got. . . breathe. . . a job. . . phew. Now that that's over I need to start looking for another job because this one is just part time and I'm not even sure how much I'm going to be paid. But it is a writing job. I am a writer. Actually, I'm a journalist. A sports journalist. Basically, it sounds like the majority of my work will consist of answering phones on high school game nights and getting the various scores and stats from the local teams and then doing quick little write-ups of the games. From time to time, though, the editor says he'll occasionally ask one of us to do a longer piece on some issue (like the big deal with girls' high school sports here in Michigan), some person, or a game that he'll have us attend. So cool. I'm a writer. I've actually got my first assignment. Next Wednesday I'm going to get the contact info for one of the area football coaches, and I'm supposed to do a preview of that coach's opening weekend game. The article will then run on Friday. Cool. Cool. Cool. I'm a writer. I am a writer. WRITER. WRITER. WRITER. Sorry. I just realized that this is the first time I've been able to say that and actually had a credential to back it up. Okay, so it is a part-time writing gig at a small-town newspaper. But that's more than I had yesterday.
I'm grateful for twinsissy who told me about the job posting in the first place (20).
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Aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!! What a great day!!!!!!! Top Chef really was a good one last night.
Oh, and YOU GOT A JOB!!!!!! So freakin' cool, man!!!!! I'm sure my mom will cut out all your articles and save them for me. She has a funny habit of hoarding wedding and birth announcements from the paper and I'm sure that collecting sports events will soon be on the agenda.
CONGRATULATIONS a thousand times around! XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Congratulations!! What great news! May this job be the first step on to bigger, better (and higher paying) writing jobs. :)
piwok: Actually, it was a really good Top Chef last night. I can't wait for the next one.
And if your mom doesn't cut out everything I've written, I'm sure my mom will.
I'll share a quick, funny, little story here about my dad. Before I had gotten the job, he said to me something along the lines of "I'm not sure what I want to have happen with you and this job because if you get it, I'll have to start getting the paper again." Heh. Not sure why, but I felt that story needed to go here instead of in a post. We'll pretend that it's like a bonus track on a cd that only my true followers will find and know about.
ime: Thank you for the kind wishes and support. Oh, and by the way, nice teapot.
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