Who: Bast Sullivan and Penny Zimmerman What: First Meeting When: August 2028 Where: Mainelander offices Rating: Likely relatively low
There was nothing to beat the smell of freshly sharpened pencils. Not that he had really needed to go out and buy new pencils considering he was just starting his internship, and most of the pencils in the bottom of his book bag were on the edge of being broken. If he wanted to get a job here on a permanent basis after school he needed to pull off being as professional as possible. This wasn't high school any more where most of the kids took journalism class and worked on the newspaper so they had something to put on their college applications. These were people who took this seriously and he couldn't have been more excited even if all he did get to do for the most part was run after coffee and donuts. Sebastian Sullivan had a desk in the Mainelander offices and he was completely in love with it. The little nameplate he had put on the desk had just been put together by his sister in honor of his new "job". He had a beautiful girlfriend and was working at the location of his dreams since he had first started writing four years ago. Life couldn't get much better...
Well, he could hopefully get a few hundred more words for this article and then hope they might print it. It was hard to get anything done when you were up and down most of the time trying to get other things done. It was hard enough trying to find something interesting to write about when you didn't have exposes like what was actually in the hamburgers at Moses Pearson...