Anyone can be published online...

I just discovered that some of my numerous writings done on behalf of a certain newspaper that I work for appear in their entirety online on the paper's web site. This is very surprising to me, since I feel that most of the stuff that I have written for the paper is, well, mind-numbingly boring. This is not entirely my fault, because the powers that be only assign me things to write that happen to be mind-numbingly boring. Basically, I'm stuck writing all the crap that no one else wants to write because my real job is to proofread, and then they "let" me write stuff of my own in my spare time.

This is one of my personal favorites. http://features.dglobe.com/bridal0617/D11.htm
I got to interview different photographers and try to pull teeth to get them to talk about all the new and exciting trends in wedding photography these days. Most of the quotes I got were actually one-word grunts and half-garbled sentence fragments, so this is actually impressive that I was able to make something of a coherent story out of it.

This is my latest masterpiece. http://features.dglobe.com/TodaysFarmSep2005/C16.htm
Again, it's quite impressive that I was able to form a story out of the information I got from these people. It was about their Century Farm (for those of you non-rural folk, that means the same family has owned the same farm for at least 100 years). I asked, "Are there any interesting stories about the history of the farm?" The reply, "No." Umm...OK. "What do you know about the history of the farm?" The reply, "Not much." Me: "Would you care to elaborate on that?" The reply, "I don't know."

All I can say is that I'm glad I don't have to do this full-time. I'll just stick to sitting in front of my computer editing other people's writing and laying out pages. It's much easier than trying to extract boring information from even more boring people.