I started at Valigan Publishing in Dublin as a temp, but when they realised I had whole manufacturing sentences out of words thing down to an art form, they let me write gossip, more gossip and a little bit of advice for girls (well, YOU try getting a sample issue from them!).
OMFG (In Ireland that’s short for Oh Merciful Friggin Gorrah), they still do not have a website!
Continuing a tradition of being in the right place at the right time, I arrived at my first journalism job just as several others had left the magazine, meaning I got to do their jobs.
In the three months I worked for Sugar magazine, I was an intern by name, but Entertainment Editor might be a more apt description.
I wrote advice and entertainment features, selected films, tv shows and albums for reviews and wrote up all the monthly entertainment gossip.
I regularly prepared and conducted celebrity interviews with all the professional gravitas to be expected of a recent high school graduate. I even got to go to London to interview Atomic Kitten!
Also fun: O-Town, whose career trajectory makes me feel good about the way things have gone for me since this picture was taken.
