First Post - Feb 5 2009

I am regretful to inform you that I have been unable to acquire a WLE. I'll speak of the failed attempt a bit later, but for now I shall focus on my early brainstorming. Even in the beginning I was unable to come up with good ideas; even now, in my broken state, I am drawing nothing but blanks. In addition to that I have no idea what kind of project i want to do. Maybe something along the lines of prose. I do enjoy writing, but where could I go? A newspaper, maybe a internet news website or something along the lines? Either way I'd probable need to do field work/research which I have no idea how to do and am probably not qualified to do. Well, enough with the whining, lets get down to business, shall we?

Yesterday I went to the library, with friends, dressed in full "professional" garb. I had my button down shirt tucked into my blue khaki pants followed by my shined black shoes. I whore a belt of course, although I did not have a tie, bothersome things. Anyways, I went down the to public library, main branch, after much debating over whether or not to call them. In the end my advisor, Sujata, helped my decide that I should go in person instead of talking on the phone. So I went to the library after school, with a few friends for support, and did my shpeel. "I'm a student from Metro Arts & Tech High and our school is basically having us do volunteer hours, as part of a school project, at an organization or business of our choice. Is there any one I can talk to about possible doing it here?" was the song I sang at the front counter. They directed me to the info counter that was manned by a few librarians, so I made a stop over there and got a similar response. They said to either go online and look at the volunteer section or go to the humanities section on the second floor. So I opted for the later. I went to humanities and they said that they probable weren't excepting any volunteer of any sort at the moment, but said I could go to the top floor and look up the public affairs office. So I gather my remaining courage and mounted the elevator in pursuit of a fitting WLE. After some initial exploration and hesitation I finally made my way to the public affairs. I got to their desk and told my stuff after which they regretfully informed me that the person who oversaw interns and volunteers had quite recently and they didn't really have any open spots available. After a bit of a heart to heart about the school project I left in a somber mood, but still kept in my heart the flames of determination.