Turns out people are kind of assholes in the blogosphere.

Ignore that I just said "blogsphere".

Anyway, I started my blogging internship a few weeks ago, and so far so good. I get to look for gossip all day and then post my opinions on it. Sometimes I get an assignment to write from a certain perspective and cheese it up to make everyone feel all warm and gooey inside, but I can handle that, who doesn't love warm, gooey cheese?

There were some unexpected set backs. For one, it turns out I am deathly afraid of commenters. Holy hell they are mean! I got an assignment to write an open letter to the "mean people" (their words not mine) that are calling Jessica Simpson fat. I was supposed to tie it into eating disorder awareness week, and be really angry at people who think they have a right to make these comments.

Oh. My. God. Readers did not like that at all. The comments started out being really lovey and yay- for-positive-body-image, and all the sudden they turned on Jessica (and a little on me too). The shit hit the fan. They were pointing out rolls and psycho-analyzing her eating habits since Ashlee stole the spot light. It was bad news, I had no idea people were so passionate about Jessica Simpson's back fat. I imagine comments could be way, wayyyy worse, but it was a little shocking.

I also underestimated how stupid I would feel about this blog after working on a professional one. I contemplated re-imaging, or picking a better focus, but then I got lazy. I also thought about shutting it down and never logging in again so I didn't have to read angry comments, but then I would have nowhere to complain... so here I stay.

Anyway I'll keep you updated with my adventures in blogging, or you could aways check out the comments on CollegeCandy. I have to refrain from telling everyone to suck it, but you sure don't have to. Either way, its pretty entertaining.