Feb. 16th, 2006

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Okay, so I'd figured I'd pretty much landed a practicum with Alberta Parent. The editor, Sylvia MacIver (her name's on the site, so I won't worry too much about concealing it) has contacted me back and said she has writing for me. Initially, I suggested I could do layout for them, since their site says that their spring issues comes out on March 15, and my practicum period is March 6 through March 17.

This is the email I got from her today; formatting is hers:

Does it seem to you like she missed the point? )

Okay, I'm not exactly sure what to do here. Cascading thought series:

1) I'm going to have to be writing this over the next month while attending school and working. JOY, like I wasn't behind/struggling enough ALREADY. Crap.

2)I'm not clear from this if she's actually going to have something for me to do during the period of my practicum. I'm off school for those two weeks on the assumption that I'll be working for my placement as if it were a regular job. Now, for CHADD I actually worked from home because they don't HAVE home offices for me to work in. (I'm not sure if that's technically "allowed," but it never came up with my instructors.) So if she doesn't need me to go to their offices, that's fine.

But does she really grasp this whole idea of my being on practicum? I mentioned my practicum dates to her both times we've spoken.

3) If she doesn't get 2), I'm not sure how the news of "you need to sign this waiver form for my placement" will go over.

4) I don't mind working on this story through the rest of February, as long as it means that I'll still have something to do for practicum, or that I'll get grades for it. I just don't really know how to scope out this situation. If I point out the dates to her a third time and ask if she'll have something for me to do, and she says NO, I don't really have a placement then. I don't know if I should tell my instructors what's happening or not...

5) If this isn't a workable placement, I'm kinda screwed. I really only have until next week to finalize something, and nobody else I've contacted yet has gotten back to me, however promising they looked. Apparently a lot of people are in trouble for finding practicum placements this year. (Our instructors think more people are placed or almost-placed than actually are; some people have outright lied about it.) Finding another spot doesn't look good.

6) Not-so-subtle hint from her; I need to track down a young person with a gambling problem. Um...actually, one of my classmates did a similar story for the Weekly, I'll ask him.

7) My mother suggested possibly that she wants to see some of my writing before she accepts me. That's fine, but the main issue here is I need to be finalized right away, not by the end of the month. Back to 3), her not signing the waiver form. And some of this is my fault, because maybe if I'd contacted her back at, say, the start of January, this would be dealt with. (Although I have no idea if she'd have had a story for then.) But I'm still slightly annoyed by the hoops here.


AHHHHHH! What do I dooooooo?!

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