.:Hurt more then it helps?:. Friday night David sends me a posting from craigslist.org for a part time internship/gig that has people write one page summaries of hip hop articles for a music website (for the most part). I thought what they hey, on my 43things.com, one of my things is to eventually freelance for my favorite hip hop mags. I thought this would be the perfect chance to get that experience that I needed to make this happen, so I applied. Monday morning while at work, I get this call from someone from the craigslist listing (Hi if you're reading this!!!). He wanted to ask me more questions about why I applied, and some questions about my hip hop knowledge, and what I read and listen to, questions like that. I was surprised that he called back, and he was surprised that so many people applied. I dashed out of the office to talk to him on the phone. Although nothing on my resume mentions any type of work with writing hip hop or anything like that, I made sure to write a cover letter that stated my interest in doing so. It's easy to see by my blog content and my Ipod playlist that hip hop plays a big part in my life, but my resume doesn't state that. I was proud when he mentioned that that was the reason why he called back. It just goes to show that cover letters are important tools in communicating with future employers =) The thing that made me nervous was when he asked me to read writing samples (because I kept telling him I keep a blog) He asked for the blog address and I was panicking (really I was!) because I keep a very informal blog. I mean, if you read it on the regular you know I'm just shooting the breeze with all of you with out any real formal method of doing so. I was worried that this would not be the best example of my writing (because really, it's not) but I had to go with it because it was there. I'm hoping that I haven't made a complete fool of myself, but if I did that's okay too. Sorry! Here's the lesson learned on my end. It's time to start writing. Seriously start writing. I keep talking about living Sydney's life in Brown Sugar, but I'm not taking the steps to even get close to that. I have all this webspace and all I do is write in my blog (which I love) and uploading pictures. Kat (a FilAm ARTS friend) mentioned to me that a way to get in the hang of writing is to start writing restaurant reviews or CD reviews and mail them out to friends. I really need to start doing this, not because my blog ended up being the example of my writing (again, I'm not ashamed, I just felt it wasn't appropriate) but because... I just need the practice. Anyhow... we'll see what happens, not sure if my blog hurt more than it helped, but again the short opportunity was awesome and I'm glad that I stood out from so many people who applied that he actually gave me a call. Yay for me!