Over the past few months, I’ve been casually informing John Hoven of MayorsManor.com, an LA Kings blog, when I saw typos in his articles. As you know, I love the Kings, and I often turn to Hoven’s site for great interviews and such. 

Hoven has been grateful for my help in proofreading. As any writer knows, it’s difficult to proof your own writing, and I’ve been doing it because I would want someone to do the same thing if I had typos on my website.

Anyway, a couple of days ago, he tweeted jokingly,  

Need you to just start transcribing quotes after the game and I’ll really be dialed in!!!

I asked him if he was serious and he was. So, last night, I transcribed two interviews he conducted, one with Colin Fraser and the other with Jeff Schultz. It was more time consuming than I’d anticipated! Sometimes the players don’t speak clearly and I had to rewind four, sometimes five times. But it was still fun. 

I’m hoping that in return, since I’ve volunteered to do this free of charge, that someday in the future, he’ll see fit to introduce me to some of the guys on the team and/or give me a little tour of the player areas. That would be SO AWESOME for my research. 

But I’m just keeping my head down right now, doing the job and getting him all beholden and stuff. Heh heh.

Would you work for free in order to meet someone famous? Who would it be?