Wednesday, June 10th/Friday, June 12th

Wednesday was actually pretty cool. I went to a couple weirdo stories. First, we went to a story about a guy who drove into a house. Twice. Same guy, same house, two different days. Needless to say, old guys on dialysis shouldn't drive. Then I went on a story about a lady whose car got shot during a driveby. She was taking her baby to the hospital. It was touching and she cried, and her neighbor had a nice cat. Plus the bullet hole was freaking HUGE. Woah.

Another day, another shift...today has been pretty much the norm, although the DTV transition shook things up a bit. I only went out on one story, though I had the choice to go out on another. More on that later - I saw my first murderers today! I spend an HOUR sitting in a hallway waiting for a trial to end in the county courthouse, and then followed some murderers down the hall...pretty gosh darn exciting!

And now for the real craziness: right now, my town is hosting a MAJOR sports event...one that causes things like 1) Calls from CNN 2) every single other story to be put on the back burner and 3) random celebrities to show up and have free concerts, etc. It's raining today and our reporter will be out in the rain till about 11pm, so when our assignment editor asked me if I wanted to go out to the event...I said, let the sports intern go. I'll be cool.

Things that interested/entertained me today:
-Wednesday...can't remember much. Uh, I went to my first "news meeting". That was cool.
-of all the places to NOT fix all their TVs...my station has a TV that isn't digital. HAHA.
-crazy lady coming up to us outside the courthouse, asking if we can help her with her problems (we have a "can help" phone number that she couldn't get through to)
-someone wrote a note and put it on one of our more "seasoned" reporters' desks. It reads "1960's Reference Desk"
-I accidentally tried to walk up a down escalator in a crowded courthouse today. Oops....don't judge me!
-TOTALLY got into the shot of another news station, and was almost bumped into by two murderers. Just another Friday :)
-Producer called someone in the newsroom to talk to them. I was not paying attention, heard the phone ring...and answered. The girl was sitting RIGHT next to me. Today was apparently my "Tara acts stupid day.

-Tara