Will Blog for Food

(This is an edited version of an inquiry that I sent to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on December 14, regarding my interest in writing a reader blog.)  

Hi,  My name is Talia, and I’m interested in writing a reader blog for the Seattle P-I. 

Before I give you my writing credentials, let me tell you about myself: 

I am currently employed as a legal assistant for the Attorney General’s Office in Olympia, though my degree is in Journalism, and I originally started out in the Computer Science program (centering around programming games, unbeknownst to me when I enrolled) at Centralia College. I spent four years getting my AA, a year at the University of Oregon that got me $15,000 of student loan debt, and I officially graduated as Greener after only one year while commuting to Olympia from Winlock. Now, I am finalizing law school applications, though my greatest employment aspiration would be to attend film school and direct movies. 

Aside from working, I live with two faux-male cats—Sleater-Kinney, rescued from the I-5 median near the Sleater-Kinney overpass in Lacey, and Cosmo, whom I acquired outside the Lacey PetSmart and named after Donald O’Connor’s character in “Singin’ in the Rain.” Mostly, they get along, though they have days when they try to gnaw each other into cat food. Cosmo aspires to be destruct-o cat, since he seems to knock over, spill, and tear apart everything he touches. And, if it hit the right spot, I think the swing in Sleater’s tail would knock over a building. 

OK, so in what little free time I have left, I try to devote it to reading, writing, movies (once a film student, always a film student), music, pop culture, cooking, wacky apartment décor, hanging out with my ex-boyfriends, and being a computer geek. 

Writing Credentials: 

In my current job, I am responsible for drafting confidential memoranda, letters to the public, agendas, and meeting minutes.
In college, I worked as a reporter, copy editor, section coordinator, photographer, and literary magazine editor at varying times over six years.
In high school, I worked as a writer on the Annual Staff for one year.
In fifth grade, I tried to start a newspaper with a bunch of my friends, but it didn’t work out. (I still have the drafts.)
I wrote my first story at age six, first poem at age 14, and first feature article at 16, and first hard news piece at 18. 

Resume (attached, PDF format)
Writing Samples (stuff I wrote primarily my last year of college, and a few since):  http://www.geocities.com/tal-tal/Html/news_archive.html
Current  Blog:  http://tal17.wordpress.com/
(I have another blog on MySpace, which I’ve had longer, though I’m not sure that some of the content is public-viewable.) 

Thanks for reading!
~Talia