Day 2.

Day 2 of work experience.

Again pretty uneventful. Spoke to a few people on the phone and got some lame arse quotes and wrote more picture stories.

Then one of the guys that works in the office (not a sub) said he'd looked over what I wrote and tweaked it. Fair enough, so i looked at what he'd done and he'd completely re-written it! And whats more (and I'm not saying this because I'm arrogant and bitter) it was so much worse than what i'd written in the first place! It was clumpy and the sentences were too long. Now i certainly do not claim to be shakespeare, and i can take constructive criticism, but what was the point in that?lol

So being at work I missed Obama's acceptance speech :(

And get home in time to watch a triple bill of Friends :P 

Work experience day 1

So today was my first day at work experience at the Southend Echo. After having a complete nightmare trying to park, i ended up parking in the £15 a day multi storey (although due to my cunning and genius I took my car out and put it back in at mid day so I only paid £9 woop!). I will be looking for somewhere more pocket friendly tomorrow.

I arrived at 9.30 (after a quick confidence boosting trip to Costa Coffee) and was instantly unsettled by the grim silence of the place, to be honest I don't think anyone was that thrilled at the prospect of ANOTHER work experience kid. Which, you know, is fair enough really, I'm perfectly aware that most get under their feet and are always doing things wrong or asking winey questions....but then how do we learn??

So after sitting quietly for maybe 15mins I trotted off behind Laura to go sit in the Courts for 3 hours. I'm always amazed at the amount of idiots in Southend, I really shouldn't be but I am. One guy was being tried for 4 armed robberies, but tried to get out on bail by showing the Magistrate his back. Yes, really.

In the afternoon, I wrote 3 little stories to go along side some pictures on utterly irrelevant things in an effort to fill space. For the most part i spent the day looking up the presidential celebrations and wishing i was part of them lol.

Not a bad day in all.

November 5-now we can get back to normal

So the American election is over-Obama won.

I'm happy about this for several reasons, firstly the Democrats are back in, and secondly, and perhaps more importantly, we Brits no longer have to read about it everyday. I think there was far too much coverage of the election in the British press, I bet the Americans don't have half as much coverage of our elections.

There is one woman I'm going to miss though, Sarah Palin. Not because she was a political genius, no, but because of the humour she brought to so many lives. If she had got to the white house, the world would have been a far funnier, (albeit disorganised) place.

What will become of Bush?

The one person who seems to have been forgotten recently, is George Bush. He hasn't got long in his presidency left, and he's certainly not making the most of it-I don't think he's actually done anything recently-(except star in a film about his life of course-Josh Brolin really looks so much like him!)

So what will he do once his terms over??? Here are a few suggestions, some obvious....some not so obvious

• write an autobiography, go figure
• hook up with Sarah Palin and run as her vice president when she runs for president in 4 years time! (Granted this is not actually allowed but neither of them are exactly the brightest crayons in the box and they probably haven't read the rule book) this really would be a dream team
• become Barak Obama's personal stalker (this is what ex London Mayor Ken Livingstone seems to be doing to new Mayor Boris Johnson-I spotted him skulking in the back at the London Assembly last month. If he can do it, why can't Dubya?)
• start up a range of clothing, 'powersuits for the not so powerful man'
• go off to Afghan and fight with all the other men (yeah right)
• salesman, he's very convincing, after all he managed to blag his way into the white house for 8 long years !

Incedentally another important thing happened on the 5th November....the Starbucks cups went back to red! Long live the christmas cup!!!!!!!!!!