after a week of interning:ok so its friday night and i'm meant to be at two parties but instead im at home after spending the last few hours detained in the office having to make a police statement... incase you're wondering how i got so cool so suddenly or how im involved with the law, we'll go back to the start of the week.
so tuesday, after an akward email conversation where my new boss asked me if i had any questions, i said whats the adress and anything in particular i need to bring, he said, surely you can find the address yourself, in journalism research is vital.... and bring common sense rarara i was like fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. i've ruined it all already and he's a difficult wanker! anyway with some help from cazz i confirmed the address. and she found the best route for me to take to get there... hardly slept the night before because i was convinced i'd already fucked it all up but tuesday morning i nervously set off and luckily there were no disasters.
the place is very chilled. outrageously messy, its like a minefield in there. full of cds and dvds from when they used to write reviews. i cant wait to get my hands on those! as soon as i got there i found out i was going to a press conference at 12 held by soccer 7s which is in the next few months. the press conference was intimidating but really cool and im getting a free soccer jersey with my name on the back. exciting, no? i was promptly told that interning is a waste of time if you don't work like you're actually working... so i was set to work straight away. this issue i'm not writing too much. couple of 100 word sections on random things. the clubs guide section which is a couple of sentences on different club events over the next fortnight (the magazine comes out every fortnight) and then fivehundred words on a singaporean band that sounds a little bit like sigur ros. ambient music they call it. i was quite daunted at the responsibility readily handed over to me straight away!
that night i went for drinks with gary (who on second, slightly more sober thought isnt really that much like hunting) we went to soho and moved around from bar to bar. i came home so useless that i left one of mums nicest cardis in the taxi with no hope of ever tracing it! (im wearing all her clothes cause its surprisingly cold here and i really didnt pack accordingly) on tuesday i email interviewed the band i was writing about which was pretty cool. to get to work it takes me about 45 minutes on bus then tram which i quite enjoy, im also loving finding my way around this city! all the one way streets make it quite difficult to orientate myself, everyday is like a game of streethideandseek.
thursday night i had to go to a thai restaurant opening which i was super nervous about cause i was going on my own. i had to take photos at the event so we were playing with my camera making sure the resolution was high enough and this photo was taken. perfect slave to the man photo i think!
when i got there is was quite awkward cause everyone else was in groups. eventually i went to the back of the room and seeing some empty seats next to some people that looked like they might be less than 10 years older than me, asked if i could sit down. the boys were comically awkward but luckily the girl they were with came over and rescued me! all three of them were lovely. turns out philippa knows alex concannon which was a bizarre turn of events.
i ended up spending most of the night with them and their friends which was fun. everyone was really lovely, a girl steph and her boyfriend, tim (from a small town near noosa) invited me to their house warming which was tonight and another boy (actually he's thirty so i suppose i should say man?) invited me to his pirate party on his boat (which is at aberdeen, where dad has his yacht). so everything was fabulous, i spent today trying to figure out how i would get out of going to an opening party for these comic inspired serviced apartments so i could go to the house warming instead...
This morning was messy, all the free drinks from the night before had me up at 6am EVEN THOUGH WORK DOESNT START TILL 10!!!!!!!!!!! and i went into dads office to meet his boss and talk to lovely chris (who is freaking engaged!! how scarily grown up is that!!) and spent alot of the day proof reading and fact checking. im getting my business cards made up next week (they're not attractive whatevs, no one has had a business card since stobeys babysitting service ones!!) and there is anotehr intern coming from belgium on monday which is exciting! i really want to meet the other writers, there are a few of them that work from home and they seem funny so thats annoying.
ok so the police. the guy that does all the graphics and the layouts for the magazine didn't come in today because he had a massive exam today for whatever he is studying. buuuut today is also the deadline for the magazine. so my boss said if he didnt come in then he neednt come back. so he didnt come in until 5.30 when he came bearing pastries which made me happy but apparently not my boss who told him to leave. they had an argument, the layouts guy demanding one months salary and my boss saying no. eventually he called the police cause the layouts guy wouldn't leave. anyway while we were waiting for the police my boss went for a walk to calm down while the layouts guy was collecting his stuff and waiting around. anyway once the police came and after a long argument he was escorted out. then as everyone is in the process of going back to work we find that all of the layouts for this coming issue have been deleted. it means like an hours work for each of 60 pages and its meant to be in tonight. so the police were called back and my boss wants him arrested for theft and sabotaging the magazine. so the police wouldnt let us leave and we were there for hours and hours waiting around, my doing innane boring work cause there was nothing else i could do... eventually i was allowed to go and get us thai takeaway which was great, i felt like i had forgotten what it was like to be outdoors! when i finally got home i cbf going to either party and now ive written this and its bed time. oh wait, ive got free movie preview tickets for this weekend as im writing a film review. on monday the other intern and i are going to a cafe opening for lunch and a fligh assimulation thing in the afternoon HOW FREAKING MAD IS THAT!?
ah, quite content for the most part with progress made this week!!
so jealous of those of you who went to kings of leon SO SO JEALOUS.
miss you all tremendously
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