Wednesday, July 24, 2013

POST 3423232 (I don't remember) - Sarah

Hiya! So I’ll make mention about two things because it’s all I can remember at the moment.
            -My boss Julie gave me and Jacleen, another intern who I love, a pretty amazing assignment that would make a lot of girls swoon. For the month of September the Providence Monthly does a StyleWeek photo shoot. This upcoming issue, Miss Rhode Island is modeling the clothes, which come from boutiques and stores all over Rhode Island. Julie gave me and Jacleen the assignment to basically travel all over Rhode Island for two days and go shopping for the photo shoot – essentially we were stylists. They’d pay for gas and lunch so it was a no brainer. So last week me and Jacleen set off on our adventure. It was AWESOME. Not going to lie, we bought a few things for ourselves. I’m not saying I’m into fashion or anything, but it was seriously fun. Interns have never been allowed to do this, so it was really a super opportunity.
            -Okay, the other thing isn’t exciting. I feel like I haven’t complained about anything, but now I can. One of my articles I wrote had a tiny mistake in it, though (I’m sure many of you would feel the say) it might as well have been a big rainbow-colored sign jumping up and down. I was annoyed more so by the fact that I REMEMBERED fixing it and this stuff should get read like a million times before it goes to press. BAH!  Luckily, this is an article that goes into more than one magazine, and the other magazine isn’t published yet, so we were able to correct the mistake for that.

Those are the two biggies that have recently happened. Shazaam!Hiya! 

3 comments:

  1. Now I feel like I didn't have the correct internship experience because I didn't get to shop for work. It is seriously awesome that you were trusted with such a huge responsibility. It says a lot about the work you are producing, so a little reward for yourself in the form of clothing is only right, I think!

    I HATE with a fiery passion seeing mistakes that not only snuck by me, but a bunch of other people, too. But from not having read the piece you wrote, I'm going to guess it wasn't a huge error that affected understanding of the piece, if only because it did sneak by so many others, so I guess take comfort in that.

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  2. Sarah you can rest assured that we all understood immediately why you were peeved about the mistake. But sometimes, no matter how many times we edit, we miss the little things...and let the fact of the big thing be that your writing is out there and you still get to be reminded that you are human.

    And congrats on the shopping excursion opportunity.

    What's next?

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  3. Next week I will unfortunately be out next week because of a family member passing, so at the moment things are on hold. However, I'm hoping to get a few more writing assignments in before the internship ends on August 14. We'll see.

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