stories

so i only heard back from one of the job posts. and it was spam about working at home to make money. sigh. i've applied to a few more. an office assistant, a bank teller and a preschool assistant teacher. i think i have a pretty broad range of skills and experiences for these different positions. i know they're not exactly what i want to do in life but i've actually been getting to that lately and it seems like it's going to take a while to get there. i worked on the guyana story this weekend. rewrote the beginning to capture the reader's attention as recommended. "I got down on all fours and crawled the last few inches to peer over the cliff and down the 741 foot drop that led to the bottom of Kaieteur Falls, the largest single-drop waterfall in the world. It was an impressive way to start our adventure in the rain forest. We’d arrived just hours earlier to begin our ecotourism trip in Guyana and were already blown away by its beauty." i still need to write a sidebar on my brother's sanctuary to add a local appeal to it. but then i'll be ready to start sending it out to publications. i got a few books on freelance writing and photography. and on alaska. i've begun my research for the trip. my idea for the story is a bridge in the gap of generations between my parents my niece and me. how my parents passed an appreciation of the earth and environment through travelling down to me and how it is my responsibility to pass it on to the next generation. does that sound interesting to anyone? my professor said i need a new angle on going to alaska. i figured that's pretty specific to our trip. we'll see where it goes. i ended up working friday night so my manager didn't have to work a double. and in exchange he was supposed to work last night for me so i didn't have to work a double. he ended up going back home to charlottesville to his parents' house to do laundry yesterday and asked if i could stay later because he was running late. that turned into him not being able to work at all. i stayed late and someone had to fill in closing who couldn't even run register. i can't believe he pulled that. it's the first flaky thing he's done though so i'll let it slide. this one time. it was just really rude of him to do.