Spending this beautiful day with some of my favorite people. #sunny #seattle (at Discovery Park)
Great news—Century Ballroom has reached its halfway mark to raise $92k to pay off its “opportunity to dance” tax! #seattle #swingnight (at Century Ballroom)
Just danced my brains out during Starfucker’s performance at The Neptune. My ears still haven’t popped and I am sore as hell, but I am too blissed out to really care.
My favorite place to clear my head. It is good to be back. #gasworks #seattle #sunset
This is the proudest I have ever been in regards to something of mine that has been published. Between the effort I had to put in to build connections to gather sources and the interview process itself, this is my “hard-news” writing at its finest.
If you are at curious about the largest refugee group in Washington (or if you just like me enough to support my writing), please check out my article for The Seattle Globalist.
Oh rain, how I have missed you.
Sweater weather!
One of the best things about being a journalist is receiving (positive) feedback from those you have written about.
For my story about a local roller derby league, which can be found here, the two women I wrote about were just so grateful and gracious (especially with the flood of e-mails I was sending them). Hearing that they liked my coverage of their sport, something that is a very key part of their lives, was just amazing.
On top of that, one of the editors I wrote for this past quarter offered to let me freelance for her paper. So that is pretty damn cool.
Things are going well.
So my housemate and I decided to go swing dancing in Century Ballroom in Capitol Hill tonight.
It was so much fun—watching people dancing, actually dancing, all of it. It was great.
There were people that looked my age or younger that were just brilliant dancers. The guy my housemate danced with said a good portion of them went to one of the local “alternative” high schools. Things made a bit more sense after that.
Long story short: I will be returning next Sunday. I will be dragging some friends along as well.
Gah. This has been the most fun I have had in awhile.
Agh, I want to take a cooking class at Hipcooks. I just had a great chat with the owner about the programs offered and it sounds awesome. Why am I poor?
I have been working on my roller derby story for several days now.
Why can’t I finish it? Gah.
In other news, roller derby is really interesting and I am stoked to go see a scrimmage in Bellevue on Tuesday.
The writing might stress me the hell out, but talking to interesting people really makes up for all that.
Despite the fact that I am/will be losing my mind, today ended on a very good note.
City Living, a Seattle weekly newspaper published my story and my (very, very amateur) photos. If you live in the Seattle area, pick up a copy of City Living tomorrow!
Or, you know, you can just click the link and check it out.
My photo slide show should be posted on the website tomorrow morning.
So you give in:
Well, I am not on a diet per se, but this was basically me last night when I went to Beth’s Cafe. Damn hash browns…
(Source: shutyourface09, via teenylauren)
The tickets for both of The National’s shows at The Neptune are already sold out.
Do not mind me as I beat myself over the head for not shelling out the fifty bucks earlier…
Los Angeles transplant currently living in Seattle while studying Journalism and Germanics at University of Washington. Filipino and German mutt. Coffee and tea lover. I have plans to become a writer of sorts.