Otis: You're going to wear out the computer's keyboard!
Teriann: Oh, hi.
Otis: Do you have any idea what time it is?
Teriann: About ten or ten-thirty?
Otis: It's nearly midnight.
Teriann: Really? I didn't know it was so late.
Otis: Don't you have an early class to teach tomorrow morning?
Teriann: Yes, at seven o'clock. My commuter class, the students who go to work right after their lesson.
Otis: Then you ought to go to bed. What are you writing, anyway?
Teriann: An article I hope I can sell.
Otis: Oh, another of your newspaper pieces? What's this one about?
Teriann: Do you remember the trip I took last month?
Otis: The one up to the Amazon?
Teriann: Well, that's what I'm writing about-the new highway and the changes it's making in the Amazon valley.
Otis: It should be interesting.
Teriann: It is. I guess that's why I forgot all about the time.
Otis: How many articles have you sold now?
Teriann: About a dozen so far.
Otis: What kind of newspapers buy them?
Teriann: The papers that carry a lot of foreign news. They usually appear in the big Sunday editions where they need a lot of background stories to help fill up the space between the ads.
Otis: Is there any future in it?
Teriann: I hope so. There's a chance I may sell this article to a news service.
Otis: Then your story would be published in several papers, wouldn't it?
Teriann: That's the idea. And I might even be able to do other stories on a regular basis.
Otis: That would be great.
Otis reminds Teriann who is typing an article about Teriann's trip up to the Amazon last month that it's late at night. Teriann hopes to sell the article to a news service and then Teriann might be able to do other stories regularly.