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
Saturday, July 25, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
Wednesday, July 22nd/Friday, July 24th
Once again, it's been awhile...but I have been on vacation, so that's a good reason, right?
Whatever. Don't judge me. Anyways, the past few days have been a-okay. Wednesday I was stuck in the building for the first few hours, and then went out on a press conference about SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). Talk about THRILLING. Who doesn't love sitting in a small room full of journalists who are trying to stay awake during the drone of boring information? When I got back, I was only in for a little while before I got to go out to a graduation ceremony for a bunch of firefighters. Not as thrilling as say...the drowning I missed by 5 minutes, but then I would have been stuck there until like 11pm instead of 7:30, when my shift ends. Weird moment: one of the graduates is a kid I knew in high school! I remember he sat behind me in study hall freshman year (he was like 2-3 years older...and a football player, ha ha). On Halloween I wore an orange sweater (it was heinous, trust me) and he said he liked it because orange was his favorite color. Too bad I wasn't wearing that ugly sweater Wednesday, it could have been destiny!
Or not.
Today, I went to the most exciting event ever (sarcasm)! A two and a half hour preliminary hearing for a murder trial! This kid killed his dad, who had been sleeping with the kid's fiance (and had gotten her pregnant...classy!). It was dull, it was long, I was HUNGRY. Later, I went out to the live shot at the courthouse for that same story.
Funny/interesting things:
-phone call from some guy complaining/ranting/being stupid/whatever about the media's blaming Bush for Obama's police comment (which we didn't do a story on...hm.)
-One of our reporter/anchor's method of squirting allergy medicine up his nose. He leaned his head back, took the meds, and then like...hyperventilated or something for the next five minutes...with his head tilted back. Then for 5 more while he continued working. I almost lost it.
-I still just crack up at the fact that people think they can call the news for ANYTHING. Examples: 1. We don't have some pre-recorded weather thing you can call. We also don't always have a weather person in. So if you want to know the weather...go online or find some phone service that does that, because I am NOT going to weather.com and reading you the forecast. Seriously. 2. I don't care how serious your problem/issue is, I can't give you a "time frame" for when you will hear from us. For all we know, a million people will set on fire tomorrow morning. That takes precedence to your landlord cheating you out of free water. 3. If you want to complain about something that doesn't relate AT ALL to ANYTHING on our show/station, DON'T CALL ME. I have better things to do than listen to you rant about socialism for 20 minutes.
I feel better now.
Tara
p.s. OH and I forgot...did I mention I'm totally famous now? Yeah. Our state might be adding a new area code, so we did a little story, and I am now phone model. Yes, I dialed the phone and then pretended to be talking to someone in this new "5-3-1" area code. Like magic! My face, up REAL CLOSE, in like 57,000 people's homes and businesses! Wooh!
Whatever. Don't judge me. Anyways, the past few days have been a-okay. Wednesday I was stuck in the building for the first few hours, and then went out on a press conference about SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome). Talk about THRILLING. Who doesn't love sitting in a small room full of journalists who are trying to stay awake during the drone of boring information? When I got back, I was only in for a little while before I got to go out to a graduation ceremony for a bunch of firefighters. Not as thrilling as say...the drowning I missed by 5 minutes, but then I would have been stuck there until like 11pm instead of 7:30, when my shift ends. Weird moment: one of the graduates is a kid I knew in high school! I remember he sat behind me in study hall freshman year (he was like 2-3 years older...and a football player, ha ha). On Halloween I wore an orange sweater (it was heinous, trust me) and he said he liked it because orange was his favorite color. Too bad I wasn't wearing that ugly sweater Wednesday, it could have been destiny!
Or not.
Today, I went to the most exciting event ever (sarcasm)! A two and a half hour preliminary hearing for a murder trial! This kid killed his dad, who had been sleeping with the kid's fiance (and had gotten her pregnant...classy!). It was dull, it was long, I was HUNGRY. Later, I went out to the live shot at the courthouse for that same story.
Funny/interesting things:
-phone call from some guy complaining/ranting/being stupid/whatever about the media's blaming Bush for Obama's police comment (which we didn't do a story on...hm.)
-One of our reporter/anchor's method of squirting allergy medicine up his nose. He leaned his head back, took the meds, and then like...hyperventilated or something for the next five minutes...with his head tilted back. Then for 5 more while he continued working. I almost lost it.
-I still just crack up at the fact that people think they can call the news for ANYTHING. Examples: 1. We don't have some pre-recorded weather thing you can call. We also don't always have a weather person in. So if you want to know the weather...go online or find some phone service that does that, because I am NOT going to weather.com and reading you the forecast. Seriously. 2. I don't care how serious your problem/issue is, I can't give you a "time frame" for when you will hear from us. For all we know, a million people will set on fire tomorrow morning. That takes precedence to your landlord cheating you out of free water. 3. If you want to complain about something that doesn't relate AT ALL to ANYTHING on our show/station, DON'T CALL ME. I have better things to do than listen to you rant about socialism for 20 minutes.
I feel better now.
Tara
p.s. OH and I forgot...did I mention I'm totally famous now? Yeah. Our state might be adding a new area code, so we did a little story, and I am now phone model. Yes, I dialed the phone and then pretended to be talking to someone in this new "5-3-1" area code. Like magic! My face, up REAL CLOSE, in like 57,000 people's homes and businesses! Wooh!
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