I had my first official assignment for the newspaper last night. The editor just said it was a public forum. haha so it turns out there was a guest speaker, too, and a “press conference” with him. Obviously, I was completely unprepared. The other reporter there looked to be about my age but seemed to have a clue what she was doing. To make things even better, the forum was all about economic development, which to put it mildly, is not my forte.

I did manage to get some decent photos, even though I think the other girl thought i was a retard because I didn’t use a flash. Silly girl, flashes are bad. I went fully manual, so brave. The speaker’s name was Mr. Plump. I giggled inside and wished his first name were “Ben,” but it seems he had nice parents, so it was Jim.

The other girl’s publisher sat with us for the “press conference,” so she was nervous about that. Of course, she insisted I ask the first question. All those bullshitting days of 411 finally paid off. I survived.

During a dead time, the girl & I had an interesting talk. She was like, “so…were you a journalism major?” I just laughed, and said this was just something I was trying out. So she continues, “well, I’ve written a piece on economic development before…” she had to leave thinking I was a moron, because I was like “yeah, I’m not really that well-versed on economics.” I have to write a really good piece, though, because she works for the rival paper. I can sense she’s a fact-nut, so I’m gonna try to give the story behind the story with a few numbers scattered in. I’ll share a scan when I get a copy.

Oh and the image is completely unrelated. Just a pic I took yesterday in the yard.