My time at Seed Magazine has officially ended. That’s not to say I won’t write for them again. I intend to freelance this summer for them and Wired as much as possible. I just don’t have to go in the office anymore. I officially work from home (read: I’m unemployed, give me a writing job please!!!).
But now that I have a little bit more time, I intend to write more in this blog than I have the past two-three weeks. I really have no excuse for my lack of posts. I’ve just been lazy. After I got that story in the New York Times, I felt like taking a good two weeks off from blogging. I’m still really happy about that Times piece, and I hope to write for them again. In fact, I intend to work my butt off this summer, but first I’m going to take one good week to veg-out (as my father says).
So you’ll hopefully see some changes to this blog, including a name and URL switch. In the meantime, I plan to write about some of the stories I’ve done while busy at work/school/freelancing in the past couple weeks.
Here is my last Seed feature. It’s about a girl Erin Peterson who volunteered to be a human guiniea pig. She was part of a NASA bed-rest study and didn’t stand upright for three months. Instead, she laid in a bed and let her muscles suffer from atrophy went through severe bone density loss.
I found her blog and it made me realize that not all science stories have to be about scientists or research. If we look hard enough there are some great human interest stories. Erin was nice enough to talk to me during her last week of bed-rest. I got a sense of how anxious she was to stand up again, how bored she has gotten lying down, and what has kept her going throughout.
The blog has since been picked up by a friend of Erin’s who is going to be part of the experiment in the future. Right now the new author of Stardust Holiday (the blog linked above), is getting ready to go to bed and stay there for three months. Perhaps I’ll revisit this story again with him after he has had some time in the hot-seat.