oh, lord…
I emailed this girl about a magazine that she's starting. It sounds kind of fluffy but I figured, “Why not? A writer writes or some shit.” Her response was kind of disappointing:
Hey! Thanks for the email. Your articles look good. I could really use
someone that has good writing skills! To tell you about me, I just graduated
from Kent State (Ohio) in December majored in Visual Jourmalism, Information
Design and now work at a newspape doing page layout/ copy editing in
Zanesville. It's about 2 hours west of Pbgh. I was just in Pbgh last night
at the BBT to watch my girl spin. I'm sure you know [here she namedrops a girl who I can't STAND].
Anyways, here's what we are doing, if you would like to help out, that would
be great. Also, could you please send a pic to contactbassline@hotmail.com
ASAP. We want all of our contributing peeps to be in the mag also!
Things that irritate me:
She's a copy editor and this email is riddled with grammatical and spelling errors. Yes, I know it's “just email” but I made sure that mine was professional and clean since this is an actual publication that is being discussed. Can I have her job?
She abbreviates Pittsburgh as “Pbgh.” That's just dumb.
I can't stand her “homegirl” and she's all over the magazine. Tricia, I think you know who I'm talking about.
She called me a contributing peep.
I just had to get that out of my system. I'm making this entry a rare “Friends Only” since I don't want to burn any bridges.
