Here you can see my new haircut, a style I like to think of as Quimby Modern. Also you can see the dress my mom thinks is too inappropriate (a sentiment not shared by non-Puritans). Also in this picture, though it is very unsteadily taken, you can see my SPJ First Place award for spot news (basically, stuff you have to write really fast because it just happened — lots of plane crashes and murders are spot news stories. The story that won happened to be about 40 inches long. Yes, I write wicked fast and get all the good scoop, and that is why I am a winner) for non-dailies (but not alternative weeklies. Funny, but The Stranger didn't appear to enter this year, even after Dan Savage grumped about having to compete with The Peninsula Gateway instead of what rightly is the Stranger's true competition, Willamette Week and the Seattle Weekly. Also Willamette Week didn't really appear to have entered much if at all. Just that Nigel Jaquiss dude who's been racking up the legit journalism awards.
Oh, yes, I did run that day, but my back was what was killing me. Hotel dining chairs plus twisting to see screen plus 8 gajillion awards = lots of pain.
Oh yeah, the Gateway won more awards as a paper than any other in our division, I got the only first place writer finish (Jim Appelgate got design props but he's always a winner because his page design is the SHIZ), though Ric got a headline writing first.
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Nice job Callie! You look great!!
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