Georgie and his Editor discuss his next Weekly Feature...

Monday, July 18, 2016

It’s Monday again! I hope everybody appreciates the fact that we only have one more Monday left in July and enjoys every second of this, the best day of the week.

Of course, my Monday didn’t start off well at all, which is highly unusual.

The first thing I had to do this morning was to bee in my Editor’s Office. For some reason, he didn’t seem all that happy (which, if you ask me, is most of the time).

Georgie-with-his-Editor


“Bee,” he said.

“Yes?” I said.

“Do you know why you’re here?”

“I can only guess,” I guessed, “but does it have anything to do with your wanting to congratulate me on the success of my first Weekly Feature Thingy?”

“Congratulate you?” he buzzed. “What you’re doing here is that I thought you should know that the Reviews are in on your first Feature we published last Thursday.”

“I knew it!” I could barely contain my enthusiasm. “I’m sure you wanted to read all those Rave Reviews to me in person. This is so embarrassing, but all I can say is… .”

Then he interrupted me.

“No, Bee. You’re not here so I can congratulate you or to read to you. You’re here beecause the Reviews to which I referred have been anything but positive. ”

Then he picked up a stack of Reviews he had sitting on his desk and started to read.

“Let me share what the Institute of Journalistic Integrity had to say about your first, weekly feature,” he said. Then he started reading.

“ ‘This is a joke, right? It’s certainly not journalism. It may bee time for the Bee Gazette Times Journal Record…and Online News to find a new Editor.’ ”

“They said that?” I asked. He didn’t say anything, but just crumpled up the paper, gave me a dirty look, and picked up another Review.

“And this one,” he continued, “from the Association of Apiary Journalists, and I quote…”

Then he went on to quote what they wrote, which wasn’t exactly very nice. After he finished, he just looked at me.

“I’m going to add my own voice to this choir, and tell you that, when I told you to include ties in your Weekly Feature, I wasn’t talking about railroad ties. When I refer to ‘ties’, I am not referring to railroad ties, or bag ties, or the Ties That Bind, Bee. Are we clear on that?”

“Of course,” I said confidently. “I understand perfectly.”

Then he said, “The fact is, Bee, we have a problem here. Apparently, you have some Serious Fine-Tuning to do on your Weekly Feature, so I’m hoping whatever you’re currently holding in your wings, which I presume is this Thursday’s Feature, is Seriously Fine-Tuned.”

“Absolutely it is. It’s totally Seriously Fine-Tuned,” I said, trying to sound convincing. “I am completely sure that my next Feature Thingy will bee even better than the last. Probably.”

Then I gave him what I’ve put together for this Thursday’s Weekly Feature Thingy.

“It’d better bee - or else,” he said as he kind of snatched it out of my wings.

“Oh I’m sure it will bee. Beesides,” I said, “everybody else I heard from really liked last week’s… .”

I didn’t get to finish what I was gonna say, beecause he just kind of waved his wing at me and said, “Get out of my Office.”

So I did that.

I gotta say that this has all been very stressful and distracting. To top it all off, I’m pretty sure there’s something important I hafta do today, but at the moment, I’ve forgotten to remember what it is. So I’m just gonna spend the day catching up on my Stories. “As The Hive Turns” is on at 2, which gives me just enough time to take a nice, soothing, nap.

So that’s what I’m gonna go do.

I hope everybody has an amazingly tremendous day!

I’ll see ya’ later!

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