My interview mojo has been just toxic lately.
First, I had a big problem getting an interview on one particular subject, period. No one I contacted would talk to me, and it wasn't even anything controversial! It was like I was cursed. Finally someone agreed, only to keep rescheduling until it was literally too late for me to use the interview in my article.
Then I actually had to cancel an article due to problems lining up an important interview.
Then I had to spend a week getting a freaking comment from one person, this time having to reschedule the article.
Then I spent the last week and a half trying to get someone who had agreed to talk to me, again about something totally non-controversial, to actually spend ten minutes on the phone with me.
Well, I just did two of those much-delayed interviews, and am having them transcribed by the good folks over at escriptionist.com, and I feel like the weight of the world is off my shoulders.
Now I have to interview the two gay contestants on the next Design Star, so if that goes okay, perhaps it means the curse has lifted.
Speaking of mojo, I wrote a diary over at Daily Kos about Barack Obama being adopted as a member of the Crow Nation... that is the top-recommended diary over there for the last 24 hours! I've been on the rec list there a few times with pet food recall pieces, but this is the first time with general political blogging. I even got asked to cross post it at Native American Netroots, where it got front paged.
*iz proud*
Also, my coverage of the lesbian side of the GLAAD Media Awards in San Francisco is up over at AfterEllen.com... with lots of photos of Sharon Stone, Jennifer Beals, and more.
That was a great diary. By the time I read it, it had pretty much been commented to death, but I really enjoyed reading it. Made my heart glow, it did.
Posted by: KathyF | 21 May 2008 at 10:41 AM