Busy, busy

I'm swamped right now in a good way! My third story in less than 10 days was published today. I'm so happy that interns have the opportunity to publish stories frequently. I mean hey, the paper is getting free reporting, and we are getting good experience, so everyone wins. Right now I'm working on so many different things, among them: a fashion story, a story about self-defense, a story about wallpaper, one about volunteers...the list is getting pretty huge and I've started prioritizing quite a bit, of course. I just got back from an interview in Wilmington (I got lost, but have chosen not to share that embarrassing information with anyone in the office...) with a wallpaper guy for our story about how wallpaper is "coming back." Who would've thought? Not something that interests me too much, but his personality was so friendly and welcoming that I started asking him questions that I personally wanted to know about wallpaper. Wallpaper design is so much more ridiculously involved than I would have ever thought. It's fun to talk to people who actually want to talk to reporters (of course some of them are business owners who I'm sure don't mind having their businesses promoted in the paper...) since sometimes, at school, students aren't the most friendly or informative.

My story that ran today was one I had a great time with. It's about the exec. chef at Pizza by Elizabeths and her story of escaping from abuse in Thailand, working a million different jobs, and finally learning the culinary trade. It's more in-depth and inspirational than that description, but I loved talking to her and thought the story of her life was tremendous. Of course some person on delawareonline.com commented that the story was "seedy," but what do they know? I honestly don't even really know what that means. The comments on some of the stories online are VICIOUS. Another intern here wrote a story about Miss Delaware, which I thought was a great story (it was a huge piece on the first page of the section), and the comments online got nasty-- calling it a "duh" story and things like that. I guess some people have nothing better to do.

Someone ordered pizza in the office today, which I'm eating as I sit here, because I've been so busy running around that I haven't had time. It's a new feeling, this being busy in the summertime stuff...