HQ Introductions: Intern Déjà Vu

Hello, gentle readers. My name is Sonja, and I’m the newest addition to the crack interning team at the office here in scenic Berkeley, California.

When I’m not participating in NaNoWriMo-related events (I know, at times it’s difficult to believe there is a life outside of it!), you can find me painting, fixing clocks, performing in musical theatre…

Wait a moment. This sounds familiar.

Too familiar…

Oh, that’s right. If you’re getting a similar feeling of déjà vu, you’re probably remembering me from last August, when I worked as an honorary intern for an entire week. Ah ha—here’s my introduction post to prove it.

I hope you enjoyed my little cameo last year, because I’m back and ready to take a slightly more permanent place in the Office’s chorus line. For the rest of the summer (count them—thirteen weeks!), I will be interning up a storm, writing blog posts, filing papers, drinking coffee, spinning around in the office chairs, and ultimately helping to provide you with the fantastic writing experiences you all cherish.

Since you’ve come all this way, I suppose you deserve to know a little more about who’s joining the cast. I’m sixteen, and I recently graduated from high school in the foothills west of Denver, Colorado. I wish the rest of my explanation could be that simple, because I have a habit of becoming a Jack of All Trades. In essence, if you need a translator of simplistic conversations in Mandarin Chinese or Sign Language, an adequate painting or piece of artwork for your wall, an average opponent in chess or various video games, a vague explanation of famous productions in the 1920s, or help preparing a simple experiment for a theoretical physics convention, I’m your girl.

Despite acquiring a multitude of other hobbies, I most truly adore reading and writing, always have, and will continue to for the foreseeable future. I’ve participated in NaNoWriMo for five years and trotted along for Camp last year, and while it is not in itself a credential, I’ve been trucking a sizeable box of spiral notebooks around filled with character sketches and plot notes for quite some time.

I hope to meet or re-meet some of you lovely writers. I promise I won’t wreak too much havoc (hm, déjà vu again),

— Sonja