Further Non-Adventures in Not Doing Journalism

[x_los]

After emailing the BBC to say pleaseplaseplease let me pour your Israeli coffee and getting back a form response that was all 'go through the website' that was kind of not even applicable for what I wanted, I got lazy and didn't email other people.

But today I sent query letters to MSNBC, Australian!ABC, did not send one to American!ABC after I'd remembered they were held by Disney and remembering that Disney Corp internships are, notoriously, fucking terrifying, and the Chicago Tribune's foreign desk editor.

I don't actually expect any of these people to want me to intern/help/string for them, but it's the sort of opportunity you have to attack voraciously, just in case. If I had more money I'd be in Jerusalem, going door to door. Well, from the various offices, not just like, offering to write some stories for Giddy Al's Shwarma Palace and make his coffee. Giddy Al can make his own damn coffee.

Next I really should email AP, Washington Post, NY Times, LA Times, and *shudder* Fox. Really this would work better if I had ins. Specific names, email addresses, contacts, greased palms. Ah well. An unsuccessful effort is better than having to cop to never having even tried to capitalize off the opportunity afforded to me by being here now. The fact that some of my friends have had stringing thrust upon 'em in the past makes it not seem ludicrously unrealistic to offer myself up for the far more inglorious 'puttering about the place on your behalf.'

EDIT: If Giddy Al's Shwarma Palace turns out to be a radical AU in which the genie granted Aladdin's wish to be a royal...poorly, I will win at life. It's a little like My Booker Prize Winning Novel: a story in which the magic carpet stops working over Honslough and Aladdin and Jasmine have to shack up and sell kebabs, and it's all really about post-colonialism, with a good gritty-realistic description of something gross somewhere in there. And there's a love story but it's all Prufrocky and under-realized and depressing. Yes? Give me my Booker.

Comments

[aralias.livejournal.com]

your first paragraph there? why i don't have a job at the bbc. also many other reasons, but partially that. which reminds me, ir eally ought to fill out their god awful form and see if they'll let me work free for them some time also. sigh.

Your icon has expressed my feelings, madam.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I think the entire point is to create a website so such blinding opacity that really only people whose uncle's cousin's friend Petunia works in HR can come work for the BBC in any capacity. And yes: free internship of woe: who needs it? ...us, as it turns out.

[nacilmeiel.livejournal.com]

Ummm... I work right next to many of the major American TV networks? I could try accosting random people on the street until I find the right connection for you? :-P

[x-los.livejournal.com]

Ahaha. Just sort of start bodyslamming executive-looking people on the street: "Why won't you let her bring you coffee?! HER COFFEE IS EXCELLENT!! FOOL!" until someone gives in and hires me: yes. Yes. This is the way of true friends. Also how the business world works. I think.

[draegonhawke.livejournal.com]

I still have no idea what the fuck Prufrock was all about.

...hi. I have nothing of value to contribute to this post.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

I will go over this bitch line by line with you, but in the end it would still be a poem that kind of annoys me and that I think is over-hyped *shrug*.

Hiiii! We should chat or something.

[prettyarbitrary.livejournal.com]

I'm sure you'll win awards. Really, that is far too pessimistic not be quality. But to be sure, you'd better work in some distressed metaphors that are Meaningfully Ugly because, as we all know, beautiful language is cliched and empty.

[x-los.livejournal.com]

God, will you be my editor? I feel like some of these sentences need taken out into an alley and roughed up, and you seem wise in the ways of Booker.