Ma and Pa editor are so proud.

Something pretty great I noticed yesterday and today was how excited everyone ELSE was about my food story. At the budget meeting, my supervisor made a point to let everyone know it was my debut, and when I was reading the page at my desk later, people kept coming by to look at it. Then after deadline, the managing editor brought the page over, and I thought he'd have some corrections. But he just held it up, and was like, "This looks really great." Then he laughed and told me not to look so worried every time he came over.

Then this morning, people kept saying how nice it looked, and that the story turned out great. And it was just a 6-incher with some art. But it made me really happy that a lot of people genuinely cared that I was doing something different that I was excited about. Colleagues really do turn into family after awhile.