just another day at cg!

Working for a national magazine has to be glamorous and fantastic, right? Otherwise there wouldn’t be so many movies about it, like 13 Going on 30, How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days, or even Down With Love (Yum, Ewan...)! These movies about chic, fashionable gals presented everything I ever wanted to do with my life, like live in the Big Apple, meet celebrities, and write fantastically witty stories. So here I am, a CosmoGIRL! Summer 2007 Entertainment Intern, and little did I know that I would do all of these things on the very first day!!!

From the day I was offered the internship I had been bragging to all of my friends about how amazing my summer would be, fulfilling my dreams, while they were stuck back home in hot and humid North Carolina. I counted down the days until I made it to New York City, and I’m finally here! It’s 40 minutes until the end of my first day, I’ve been here for 9 hours, and yet it went by so quickly!

I’m bumming on my cousin’s couch, and after three weeks of a noontime wake-up call, 6:00 a.m. wasn’t looking so hot, and it was offensively rainy out. But I was so excited, I was out of bed in a flash, and at CosmoGIRL! three hours later. My new boss, Rachel, had prepared me for the first half of the day, and no more than 20 minutes after I step on the CG! floor (so cute, by the way!), I’m whisked away to video training where I learned how to work the camcorder, because at 10:00, The Click Five was coming to visit the Project 2024 girls and the other CosmoGIRL! interns, and sing a few songs! Not even an hour at the office, and already meeting a gorgeous band! The best part was that I got to hang out with them before and after the interview – what nice guys! We talked about MY favorite music (I being the most important girl there, that is!) And did I mention they’re all so cute?! Because they are. As in, I will be marrying each of them at one point or another.

Not even two hours later, right after an amazing lunch, Rachel, Loren (a former intern), and I were off for yet another interview, this time with Cartel, who are currently the Band in a Bubble. We take a famous yellow taxi cab to the harbor, where the Bubble is set up, receive – get this – media passes (hello, scrapbook!), and, after waiting a few minutes, going inside the Bubble itself to talk to the band! Well, we weren’t really in the bubble, but in a doorway, where Rachel interviewed the band through a speaker box. And my goodness, even more hotties! Not to pick a favorite, but I’m going to be keeping my eye on Nic. After waiting a few minutes while the band did a live feed for TRL, we gave the band shirts to sign and a few copies of CosmoGIRL! to read, which made them pretty happy.

And while there are only a few minutes left, the day might not yet be over! Rachel has tickets to see The Click Five and O.A.R. (who’s doing a special, secret show) at The Knitting Factory tonight, but I’m so tired that I might just crash on the couch tonight! After all, who knows what tomorrow’s going to bring!

Ciao for now!
Taylor