"Every day I called people and tried to sell them help-wanted ads. But I hated to talk on the phone, so I did a lot of faxing. I'd write these sales pitches. then mass-fax. Fuck, I'm old -- I faxed," Hemmings confesses. "I have to say, I really had a good time. Classified sales people are a cool, smart, hard-drinking breed."
"I remember that I liked her.... She was smart and more on the serious side, I think," says former classifieds cohort and current Westword senior multimedia account executive Amy Camera.
In her downtime, Hemmings kept the writing dream alive by applying to MFA programs; she eventually headed off to Sarah Lawrence. But she might not be done with Colorado for good. She's currently working on a book and script set in Breckenridge, Vail and Colorado Springs. And where better to do research for that project than the Centennial State itself?
"I'm dying to get back to Colorado," Hemmings concludes.
