Friday, August 10, 2007

Clean up; you never know when you may have a polish girl sleeping over

I know I should explain the title of the entry.... and write a detailed description of my wild and crazy adventures but seriously, I am too hung-over, I am still at work, (almost ten, people) and I havent eaten anything all freaking day... thank god that I went out last night and because of that I have no desire whatsoever of going out again.... i just want to sleeeeeeeep and well, eat first... i dont know what i would eat though.... ok let me see if my article is online today... yes it is!! I am one really happy camper.... you see, that was fun. Today, not that fun. I get too edited, my editor made me sit with a copy editor for like half an hour and she meticulously took apart my precious little artcile and re-arranged it in a way that makes me feel like a fraud by putting my name on the top, simply because it barely resembles what I originally wrote. Dude, I dont know if it is my lack of Spanish or lack of reporting or what, but this is awful!!! But I guess I knew this... by no means was I expecting to just breeze through this and just magically become in two days the writer and reporter that I want to be.... but this is the big league dude... the biggest... this is as high as I can get... and I feel like maybe I jumped to quickly into something that I am def not ready for... on the other hand it is an awesome experience, I am getting published in this amazing newspaper, and there is no way I wont get hired in another spanish-speaking newspaper after this... I just want to learn... actually.... i really do! hopefully the continuous slaps on the face will simply help as a way to becoming what I want to become... to build a thick shell... dude, I am young... (yes, you are the dude) I am oh so young! What I am realizing though is that this initial thrill of reporting may wear away quickly with the long hours and the continuous starvation.... I shall see where it takes me... for now, it is painful, it is hard, but I am as content as I could ever be.

1 comment:

marcela said...

ANDIE! you should expand on your chocoaventura with the polish girl and a wild night out!!
love, marcela.