Finally found someone to give me a customer for the wallpaper story- it's like the never-ending assignment. It's almost the holiday weekend so people are busy and don't want to help me. Ugh. The copy is done but I need to get the photo assignment in. It's interesting working with photographers to try to tell them what your story is about so they can get photos. Some of them do some really good work.
Now I have in the works like 4 more stories for this week alone, since I'll be out of the office all next week. One is about an organization that rescues and rehabilitates homeless feral cats- Forgotten Cats, Inc. I got a good interview with the president, and we need to get some photos of the volunteers in action.
Another story is about the resurgence in popularity of fedora hats. A fashion story! I've never done one. (Though I do love fedoras and own one myself that I put on when I'm feeling feel particularly fashionable). I have to run around trying to find people that wear them...off to Main Street I go to talk to hipsters.
I'm also doing a story about these "gel manicures" that nail salons are doing. They use some weird technique but apparently if it's done wrong it can be kind of dangerous. One woman's story I found online was about the nerve damage she got from it. Yikes. Prof. Fallik, it makes me think of the story you told us about with the little fish pedicures...so many weird nail techniques out there.
I've been enjoying working in features very much. I started this summer a few weeks later than some other interns, so while they are now switching around to different sections, my editor Betsy wants to keep me in features since I haven't been here as long. I'm glad. We had a little features staff meeting yesterday and it felt cool to feel needed in the section and a part of the team. I'm the only intern here anyway, so sometimes I feel like the baby. In a good way-- they really help me out.
Betsy loves the bright (and I do mean bright) orange nail polish I've been wearing the past few days, and today she randomly gave me a bright pink MAC nail polish to keep. Love it.
I'm glad things are working out with features! That nail gel story is really interesting - is that a new kind of manicure? One way to find out if there have been problems is to call the FDA. They might have reports.
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