Oh, wow, I didn't realize she would be taking notes on me. I didn't even really think of this as an interview, but maybe I should have. I realized that she was under no obligation to take me on, but I preferred to let my work -- both on paper and on foot -- speak for me rather than my outward appearance. My life story didn't exactly seem like the thing résumés were made of, but I guessed that it did make up my whole person. And being a reporter wasn't just a day job that required you to be good from 9 to 5. You had to be on point all the time. You needed to have passion.
This was the first time that I had been interviewed, but also the first time that anyone had ever told me that moving around so much was a good thing. It was something that I had definitely come to terms with. As a little kid, it had been harder, knowing that no one really liked me because they didn't know me. But getting older, I cared less and less until it wasn't a factor to me at all. I hadn't realized that it worked to my advantage, the way Cindy said. I nodded when she talked about contracts and paid subscriptions, but I really didn't know anything about that. I just wanted to write. Let everyone else take care of the business.
I sat up straighter when I was given the opportunity to talk again. "Well, of course everyone's going to want to do something on how this place works. I was working with another girl to try and set down the facts of what we know about everybody to determine if we could find some kind of pattern. That's not concrete yet, though. We don't have facts; that's just something on the back burner. More so, I want to do more stories on the superheroes that are in the city. I think they deserve more credit than what they're getting, but also I think people need to be more aware of the darker parts of what's going on in this city. I walked in on a drug ring the other day, for crying out loud. And kids with mechanical tentacles? More people need to know about that. Anyway, I'd also like to run something on the big happenings. You know, the yeti stuff, for example? It feels like most Darrowians want to move passed that really quickly, but we need some in depth research on that, maybe finding a cause or another trend. I mean, there's a yeti out there and has anyone pinpointed where exactly he is so we avoid him?"
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This was the first time that I had been interviewed, but also the first time that anyone had ever told me that moving around so much was a good thing. It was something that I had definitely come to terms with. As a little kid, it had been harder, knowing that no one really liked me because they didn't know me. But getting older, I cared less and less until it wasn't a factor to me at all. I hadn't realized that it worked to my advantage, the way Cindy said. I nodded when she talked about contracts and paid subscriptions, but I really didn't know anything about that. I just wanted to write. Let everyone else take care of the business.
I sat up straighter when I was given the opportunity to talk again. "Well, of course everyone's going to want to do something on how this place works. I was working with another girl to try and set down the facts of what we know about everybody to determine if we could find some kind of pattern. That's not concrete yet, though. We don't have facts; that's just something on the back burner. More so, I want to do more stories on the superheroes that are in the city. I think they deserve more credit than what they're getting, but also I think people need to be more aware of the darker parts of what's going on in this city. I walked in on a drug ring the other day, for crying out loud. And kids with mechanical tentacles? More people need to know about that. Anyway, I'd also like to run something on the big happenings. You know, the yeti stuff, for example? It feels like most Darrowians want to move passed that really quickly, but we need some in depth research on that, maybe finding a cause or another trend. I mean, there's a yeti out there and has anyone pinpointed where exactly he is so we avoid him?"