First Good News, Then Bad

This morning while I was checking my gmail inbox, which had been as baron as the Gobi desert for the past 3 days, I saw that I finally received some positive feed back for an interview for my paper. I sent out emails to over 20 people, but I still wasn't sure if anyone would email me back because these days people are very busy and they might not have the time to help out some high schooler with his junior theme. However, I recently learned that my potential interview subject, Tribune Writer Melissa Isaacson, got fired due to large cutbacks in the writing department. This scares me because I know if I had just gotten fired I wouldn't want to answer a bunch of questions about my former job. I do not see this as a failure though. This interview will live on. I'm sure that Melissa was very gracious about her termination, and I know that she has the talent to get a new job very quickly, so I will still try and set up an interview. The thoughts and feelings of a seasoned sports writer for the Tribune are too precious to my paper to give up.