Saturday, July 25th

HOLY CRAP IT IS EARLY IN THE MORNING. I got here at 7am...meaning I woke up at 5:30! Wow, I don't think I can even remember the last time I was up that early!

Anyways, I got here as our morning news show began, and let me tell you: it is very quiet in the morning. Aside from the anchors doing the show, and the occasional announcement from the scanners (someone's having a heart attack, lady having a baby, someone fell over, etc.) I can keep quietly to myself...just how I like my mornings :) As the show was going, I suddenly noticed a most wonderful scent. Then...two guys from a local barbecue place came in! They were here to do a cooking thing on the morning show and HOLY CRAP it smelled good. I wish they had left some stuff here to eat. Darn.

This afternoon, I drum roll please...actually did stuff! First, I went to a press conference about health care with a Nebraska Representative. Party on. Did some interviews with people, some lady cried and rambled as usual, moved on. THEN, about an hour later, I went to the zoo! Yeah, it's free right now, so we went around the PACKED zoo, did some interviews with excited people, looked at some animals, went on the animal ski lift thing with the camera - which brought us much unnecessary attention, and then left. Now I'm back and I'm slightly hot and stinky. However, I have received like 3 compliments on my skirt (an unfortunate choice when going on a ski lift OVER PEOPLE. Oops). Also, I wore sandals instead of my original choice of high heels. Good call considering I was walking through the zoo lugging around a huge tripod that can be like 3 feet taller than I am.

Entertaining things:
-I can see one reporter's sports bra through the back of her shirt. AWKWARD.
-Some people came up to us wanting to be filmed, and when we rejected (nicely) their request, the newspaper came up to them. They weren't impressed with the thought of being in the paper and rejected her (not nicely).
-Some guy called in during the morning show to comment about something. He just thought some aspect of some story was funny. WHY did you call and waste 5 minutes of my time, dude? Why?
-The press conference was at a community college/university place with multiple locations around the area. We went to the wrong one, then (after much cursing and anger from the reporter) arrived 15 minutes late to a place 30 minutes from the other location - A+ to the speeding photog!

Now I'm off to enjoy the final hour of relaxation in the quiet, air conditioned, newsroom.

Tara