w00t!

[dragonlady7]

*picks up phone*
*dials 9*
*dials the number for UB Green's offices*
"Hi, this is Bridget Kelly and I'm a freelance writer working with [alternative newsweekly]*..."


So yes, I am writing the article.



So. Does anybody live in a leaky old Buffalo house and wonder how they're going to get through this awful awful heating season? (*blinks innocently at mother2012*)





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* I'm retaining my deliberate policy of not using the paper's name because it would absolutely suck to Dooce someone else.
Not that I expect to have anything bad to say about it, per se, but perhaps Z's revelation that his predecessor used to smoke weed in the warehouse with half of one of the other departments while on the job would possibly be connoted as "bad" by some people.

Comments

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That is Most Fabulous.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I'm having fun just sitting at a desk with a telephone. :)

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

I'm glad about the article. You need the pick up to your self-esteem and your view of yourself as a writer.

Um ... about the heating. I'm currently paying $300 a month on budget - in other words year round. Double that? Impossible. Unless we stop eating.

It's a big house, but with the number of people living in it, I can't even cut off rooms to let stay cold. Currently my sister has most of the second floor as an apartment and my daughter has the attic. The main floor is so open than most rooms literally can't be closed off.

And are any of these people going to remember to close doors and curtains? Ha! But use of electric blankets will be mandatory.

The only saving grace is that, due to the renovations after the fire, nearly everything is insulated. I suspect, however, that I will be covering the windows with tinfoil. Desperate action in the winter when there isn't enough sunlight anyway, but important to conserve every bit of heat possible.

[mother2012.livejournal.com]

Oh, another thing I'm going to do that you might want to consider. I'm now sending in my heat usage monthly, and raising it over what it actually is. I figure that way I'll get current prices on gas that I haven't yet used.

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

Cahloo! Cahlay! Hurrah!
(Sorry...now I have an image of Bridget galumphing back to her house with the dead head of her, er, article in her hand. Maybe I need more sleep.)

[tehta.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Will you try to turn this into a new career?

But... you *have* told us the paper's name. In your previous post, even, although it didn't sound all that unfamiliar when I read it there.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Paper's name... Why yes. Oops. Oh well. perhaps I meant I was trying to uphold my policy.
I never said I was any good at it.


I would love to turn this into a career but they can't afford me so I'm doing this for free at the moment, which means I need to keep my other job. But-- it can't hurt to have a publishing credit, for now, and possibly more in the future.


I harbor a secret desire to become a columnist.