Hello again.

Don't hate me because I haven't updated in ages. I intended on updating two weeks ago, but this stupid blogger site refused to post and lost my entry. I quit in frustration.

Yesterday, I gave it another try. The site wouldn't let me post anything. It sucks.

So here I am today. If this thing doesn't work, I'm going to fight someone.

I e-mailed that guy from the Courier-Post on November 21 or 22. Still no word. I'm getting super frustrated. I'll e-mail him again soon though. I suppose I've got to be annoyingly persistent. That's the way I am anyway. I usually get what I want, and if I don't, it's very ugly.

Also though, my friend goes to school in New York, and she's keeping her apartment over the summer. Maybe I could get something in the New York area and live with her. That'd be glorious. I'm just afraid that I don't have enough experience. We'll see.

I'm extremely overwhelmed by life in general right now. I need a break.

Internship search, cont'd.

I sent out a second e-mail to the Courier Post, but I have yet to receive a response. I think I'll give it until the end of the week, and then I'll send another e-mail. I don't want to be a pest, but I want my internship. Waiting until Friday or so is almost two weeks, which I think is a reasonable amount of time.

Also, I've applied to be a teen correspondent for the Courier Post. Hopefully, I'll hear back about that soon, since I'm only going to be a teenager for about six more months.

I need to get involved with the Signal. I should go get an article tonight, but I'm kind of going through some heavy emotional stuff right now and I can't even eat or sleep, so I don't think I can take on an assignment this week. Not to mention the fact that I have two big projects due next Monday, and Paige and I are going to get our website/digital story up and running soon. I need to stop making excuses and do something with myself, but on top of everything else, I can't do an article.

Feel sorry for me. I had a really shitty week, and this one won't be any better.

Internship search!

After meeting with Professor Pearson on Friday afternoon to discuss my schedule for next semester, I determined that it was time to really get on my internship search for summer 2005.

Since I'm more interested in magazine writing than newspaper journalism, I'd really prefer to intern for a magazine, but my home is in south Jersey- a commute to New York would take at least two hours. Also, since this will be my first real internship, it may be better to start smaller, and then use this experience to help me get a bigger internship at a major magazine.

I did a general search of New Jersey internships, and stumbled upon a site that listed all the newspapers in the state that offer summer internships for students. I've already been in contact with the Gloucester County Times, my local paper. But Professor Pearson suggested that I look at the Courier Post, a larger paper with a much larger circulation. On this site, I found an e-mail address, and contacted one of the editors, requesting information about how to apply for an internship. (According to the website, the Courier Post offers seven internships in different departments; I'm most interested in copy editing.) The editor responded to my e-mail almost immediately, and suggested that I contact a different editor.

So those are the results of my internship search so far. I'll e-mail editor #2 sometime today, so that he'll get my e-mail tomorrow. Hopefully after I hear back from him, I'll have some more solid information about the internship application process.