First Week on the Payroll (not really)

After joining in the celebration of her majesty's official birthday I went to work Monday ready to give a full week of unpaid labour! Love being a student intern :) And by a full week I mean Monday to Wednesday from around 10 a.m. to around 6 p.m. with an hour lunch break. My office is close to Oxford Circus which is a huge shopping area and has about a million and one cafes and restaurants within a block or two. Soho park is also a stroll away but the pigeons here, as I said before, are mutated demon pigeons and I prefer my life as well as my Pret sandwich to be intact coming back to the office. Schön! (the magazine I work for) is revamping their website and I am basically in charge of uploading content to that website. I've put the latest issue up, created introductions for the spreads in the magazine, and made tags for the designer and photographers featured. I also create summaries for the home page of the site and thumbnails to each spread. It's pretty interesting and, thanks to my blog work at The Alcalde, (Texas Exes shout out, woohoo!) I basically know what I'm doing. As much as I hate to admit it the era of the newspaper, or paper in general really, is being outsourced to the web. You have to know how to work with multimedia in journalism to stay connected and reach as many people as possible and I'm really glad I have that opportunity here. My friendly Londoner friend at work is Neesha (I'm not sure if that's the proper spelling but that's how you say it). She is very outgoing and very spunky, always comes out with me to lunch and we end up roaming the streets up and down trying to decide what to eat, then figuring out where the office is again.