SWEETNESS!

Today kicked ass!

There were some bad parts, like the three hours of standardized testing in the morning, but everything else was pretty cool.

In 7th period, I passed out the pages I copy-edited and everyone else went in and fixed all their mistakes. It was awesome. I was like in complete control of the class, and they all asked me for help and stuff, which was cool. I stayed for the 8th period class as well, as AP was only a study hall that day, anyway.

Then, I stayed after school to help work on the paper more.

Chris, the other editor, Kathleen, Amy, and I stayed after. Amy's the photographer. We all stayed until seven, working.

It was completely awesome, though! We got a ton done, and... *dramatic pause*

I have my own column!

:DDDD!!!

It's sweet! Marissa was supposed to do a column, but she hadn't even finished her articles, so Chris gave it to me, even though sophomores don't usually have them. Even better, it's the column in the Features section, which basically means I can write about anything I want, so long as it's not Entertainment, Fashion, or Sports. :D

I wrote about sociopaths this time. Very very fun. :D

I also wrote like a bunch of crap about piercings, caffine, Toddie's doctorate degree, and a bunch of other crap, because a ton of kids didn't finish their stupid articles.

Ooh, about halfway through, Chris was online at the Post Gazette website, looking for a picture of the women's soccer team, when she found the headline, "BREAKING NEWS: Baldwin-Whitehall school board member arrested for attempted murder"

We flipped out.

It was HYSTERICAL! As reporters, Chris and I and Kathleen had all interviewed Beverly Coon, the one who was arrested, and none of us would have known she was nuts like this! Apparently, she had been stalking her 60 year old boyfriend for a week after he broke up with her, then went up to his apartment, fed him pastries laced with poision or sedatives or something, and then set fire to his mattress before running away.

Sooooo cooool.

The media was outside the school and everything. I wanted to go talk to them, but Miss Kondrot was like "NO!" I did anyway, though, when I went to go get the pizza we ordered. They were like, "Miss! Do you have any comments about the blah blah blah?"

And I, in typical Eliz fashion, said, "I'm sorry. I work for the Purbalite, the studnet newspaper here, and I have an exclusive on the story."

What was really funny was that one guy believed me! He was like, "Oh, no, we're from KDKA, we won't steal your article. We could trade information." I just smirked and said, "I'll check with the editor" before going back inside.

Which, of course, I didn't do, as I was completely kidding.

The bad part was that Mr Keruskin flipped out when he found out, and he came down and yelled that we had to take her quotes out of the articles. This is terrible, as she's a major factor in my article and balances the entire thing. That's a problem Ms Kondrot's going to have to deal with, however, because I flat-out refuse to take her out.

Now, I'm at home, exhausted, and I have to go back in early tomorrow at 7 to help finish everything else up.

Soooo tired. Zzzzzz........