and what have we learned today children?

Today I applied for a newspaper reporting job. Not all that different from what I do most days, but today's job was different. Because this job, I realized after I sent in my resume and clips, is to work under an editor who just so happens to have been an adjunct professor at Murray State once upon a time. Who just so happens to have been a news writing professor, and who just so happens to have had me as a student.

All this would normally be a good thing, except for the fact that -- upon consulting my transcript -- I realized that I had this professor in the fall semester of my senior year, when we can be sure of two things: 1.) I was exhausted and overworked in my first semester as editor of the newspaper, and probably skipped class just every now and again, and 2.) I pretty much thought I knew everything I needed to know about everything, ever, and probably displayed that handily with my sparkling attitude.

The lesson, children, is that (much like life in Jersey City) you just never know. Why would I need to know someone who worked for a little piddly paper in the south, when I was going to New York to work for a big, fancy-pants magazine? Maybe because plans change. You can't predict the future. Every contact is a good contact.

So I said a few blergs to myself today when I realized who I was addressing in my cover letter, but all is not lost. I did get an A in the class, I don't know for sure that I was an insolent little d-bag. I might've been decently pleasant. I hope?

Blerg.

cheers,
elizabeth