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[pecunium]

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last week I helped akirlu hide a body (365 points). Last Tuesday lacecorset and I donated clothes to the needy (11 points). In June I stole thehippiechick's purse (-30 points). In November I pushed patgreene in the mud (-17 points). In January I put gum in williebanger's hair (-12 points). Overall, I've been good (317 points). For Christmas I deserve a pony! Sincerely, pecunium

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[greybeta.livejournal.com]

Hi, dropped in through the ljgenie community. I always like to read well thought out opinions. I hope you don't mind me friending you because I think you can help me improve my writing style in both content and style.

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

I don't mind.

Ignore the typos (I learned to type OJT as a journalism student, where a pencil could fix all errors).

Honestly, I think you ought not take the job.

1: From what I read, you aren't a journalist, which means there are aspects of the job/culture you won't appreciate, and feathers will get ruffled. Were it a real job, you could smooth them, but in a semester/quarter, the odds are slim.

There is a whole lot of what was the culture when I was in the press which seems to be different, how much of that change has moved all the way down to the college level, I don't know.

War stories... well they are the sort of thing best told over a drink, and probably won't resonate with you until you've spent some time in the trenches.

I can, however, give you one which relates irrespctive, and it relates to editing, and writing.

The campus had a long-standing issue (not yet dead, some 20 years later) relating to land use. IT was originally an ag school, and now is in the midst of the city, but still has ag-related issues.

I had been a student in the horse program.

A cow was paralysed after calving.

It was put down by the chairman of the cattle program. He shot it.

I, in part because I knew some of the players, was given the story. I did a decent piece, but I didn't organise it well, and in the course of budgeting the paper, the last three inches were cut, which changed the way the story read. It wasn't that I had done anyone wrong, but mitigating details were lost.

The editor might have thought to come to me, I might have put those details higher in the piece.

In any case I had people I'd counted as friends who came into the city room and gave me (because it was my byline) a solid piece of their minds, and who probably still won't give me the time of day.

TK

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps I should not take the job, but the 'rents want me to get a job next semester. Any job. It's this or retail...

Plus it's a college newspaper. The egos a slightly more manageable.

I hope.

And I will take your story as a warning about the power of editing.

-D2

[pecunium.livejournal.com]

A college paper that pays?

Damn.

When I was managing editor (I was fortunate enough to not win the campaign for EIC... it was close, but I was the one with the conratulations, Dan got the condolences), I was putting in 50-60 hours a week, carring nine semester units (all journalism... I didn't have the time to carry anything else) and got... nine semester credits.

TK

[cluefairy-j.livejournal.com]

Dear Santa,

This year I've been busy!

Last Tuesday I broke talking_sock's X-Box (-12 points). In July I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). In April I committed genocide... Sorry about that, pecunium (-5000 points). In May I put money in danjite's expired parking meter (14 points). Last Sunday I put gum in snowboardbunny's hair (-12 points).

Overall, I've been naughty (-5086 points). For Christmas I deserve a moldy sandwich!


Sincerely,
cluefairy_j