I've been getting some written pieces submitted by applicants and during this time of preparing for another MORASS issue, I'm tempted to steal their work just to fill in 6 blank newsletter pages. Of course, I realize I won't be in the least minded to secure their services so I scrapped that idea as soon as it entered my mind.

Not that they're not good. Well, most of them are probably people who believe, as Russell Baker has so eloquently put together, that "the only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."

One of them was a guy who was so enamored of a local celebrity that he submitted a piece on "intellectual and emotional quotient" peppered with the phrase (more like a non-phrase) "in loved." That email went straight to, well, another folder.


Date:     Wed, 16 Feb 2005 20:09:44 -0800 (PST)
From:    "sender" <sender@emailadd.com>
Subject:    all about love 4
To:    "Mistresseyes Medusa" <mycompany@yahoo.com>

February 17, 2005
 
Mistresseyes Medusa
Supervising Writer/Editor
Company
 
Dear Mistresseyes:
 
 This is my article related to "Intelligence and Emotional quotient."
 
 Hope you will find it interesting.
 
 
Sincerely,
 
sender

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                                          ALL ABOUT LOVE
                                          by: sender
 
 
  LOVE's definitions vary from one person to another. <parts removed> That love is not pushing but falling inloved. That love involves measuring your loveone with your set  standards, appreciating the fulfillment, and understanding the shortcomings; try to tell your loveone about your expectations and never forget to give reward for loveone's goodness even just in simple ways. That love is a partnership of two inloved persons who are bound to fulfill their oath of eternal love; love is indefinite.
 
<parts removed>
 
2. <parts removed> To love but never be loved in return is a form of mental illness - crazy inloved.
 
<parts removed>
 
4. Affection and physical belongingness are the start of falling inloved. <parts removed> Being inloved is the state of inseparability - union of two souls.
 
<parts removed>
 
8. <parts removed> To love and be loved are the gifts of falling inloved.
 
9. <parts removed> Falling inloved is being in balanced.
 
10. Falling inloved is complex and has many ways.

<parts removed>
 
13. Set standards to be met before starting  and learning to fall inloved. <parts removed>
 
Source: My manuscript on 14 love tips and stories.
The writer: sender, CPA is a tondo boy-inloved.
Inspiration: my spiritual goddess - gilfriend "local celebrity"


And so, I want to give him a copy of the most basic English grammar book I can find. Well, it probably wouldn't matter in case he decides to ask local celebrity out - she's about as inarticulate as, if not more than he is. And where the hell is either intelligence or emotional quotient in that piece? Definitely not in the parts I scrapped. Oh well. What did I expect? Everyone thinks they're a writer.

There is about 1 in 20 applicants who I might be minded to hire. But PJW has a different idea of a great writer. (You already know about Misogynistic Tail, of course. Read my previous entry.) He can't be too young, he has to come from a reputable school, he has to have an English or communications related degree. Only John Updike would pass that. Heck, even I am not that and I'm wondering now why he asked me to work for him. I must be so charming hahahaha!

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