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I thought I was getting better at interviews. Blah. Never mind.

It doesn't help that I can't hear out of my left ear at the moment, and you'd be surprised how disorienting that can be. I also think I've accidentally been speaking louder to the people on my left all day.

The conference room wasn't reserved properly, we had to improvise with a classroom. And I was interviewing three people at once! And they didn't really have a lot to say about their project. Their answers were simple and unattached. It was just a project, they said. Not anything out of the ordinary.

How helpful.

So I was trying to coax something profound out of them with some questions, but I don't think I got anything really story-worthy. It won't be a very interesting article, I think, but they did win first place. So that's something. Even when I asked them why they won first place, they didn't seem very proud. "Our organization, I guess," one person said. "We were really organized, got all our reports in on time."

I'll end up spinning something. I guess it wasn't the best subject. It didn't seem to mean much to them. They didn't really care, they were struggling for things to say. It's the interviews where you can get people talking about what they really, really care about. Those are when you get the best quotes, the best conversations. The best articles, really. But if your subject doesn't care, it's hard to imagine how you're going to make your readers care.

Until then, my feature on the prosthetics organization is up. I am happy. :)