2-20-10

In my life, there seems to be a cycle that's repeating itself again. This is the cycle where I start off as a fledgling "employee" and gradually go up in the ranks. The first installment of this cycle began when I first entered the high school newspaper freshman year. I was one of the two freshman in a whole entire class of juniors and seniors, and needless to say I was inexperienced and had no fucking clue regarding any matter that involved high school journalism. The two main editors, seeing this, assigned me to do the horoscopes. I was fourteen, and obviously my ability to "read the stars" was lacking. So I did what any like-minded person would do. Bull-shitted. And in the end it was just fine; because nobody gives a hoot about reputable sources for a horoscope in a high school newspaper. The quality of my story assignments progressively got better throughout the year, and eventually I landed a front page story, the dominant one no less. It was about how a shit-ton of kids had been getting hit by cars right outside our high school. I could tell you every article that I wrote but I'd just end up looking long-winded and narcissistic. So blah blah blah-I ended up being the opinion page editor that made my little blonde haired, fifty year old W.A.S.P of a newspaper adviser uneasy in her seat.So now lets jump forwards in time to the present. I'm a freshman in college who just got put on to be a volunteer/intern at a local non-profit, non-commercial news website called SF Public Press. I am by far the youngest and least experienced. And I get put on to do a weekly news round up. It's just aggregation in it's most simple form. But it still makes me nervous because I don't want to fuck it up. But in the end it is like my ill-fated horoscope column, though not ill-fated. It's a teaching device, and will further set itself up to be a great learning experience.

*Note:But-but-but-but...but I should stop beginning a sentence using that word as well as "it".I see a bad writing habit shaping up here. Gotta nip that sucker in the bud-just as Bill Cosby would say (devoid of the word "sucker" but I can see him saying sucker anyway,if that counts).*