New Month, Old Habits

Well, not exactly old habits, but its nice to see March finally arrive. I wore a pair of shorts for the first time since October. Spring is almost here!! Anyway, on to it...

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The dot-com shift went pretty well. Fowler had been at the station since 7:30 AM, so Cate and I figured he would want to do anything but more station work. However, Zimmerman stayed until 7:30, and everything was put up, which was both good and awful. Good because we didn't have to do any translating and getting video/images. And awful because there was nothing to do. MO Headlines had already been posted by Matt, so we pretty much talked for a long time. Which is cool. It lets me know my co-workers better. For instance, Josh thinks he is fairly attractive and Cate hates Michigan State. So that's something. It's getting to be fun. The reporters were a little late in getting images, but that wasn't a big deal.

There was one rough spot with the shift. Jim approved everybody at the same time. With about twenty minutes before the newscast. Which meant each of us had to edit a story and create video and image categories for them in a very short time frame. Josh took the Chuck Berry story, Cate took Brandon Lewis' ( I don't know what it was about), and I edited Jeun and Sims' scripts. It would've been grand had iNews not crashed on me right after I edited JiEun's story. I remember because I was about to curse for several minutes, but she warned me. She stopped me after "son of a". But after that, it was easy. All images , video and stories were posted, and everything was on-line before Sports even went on the air.

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Since Spring is almost here, it means two things: the return of Major League Baseball (more specifically the Cards) and the return of its offspring, Fantasy Baseball. I named my team after Greeley in hopes of powering past every other poor soul. I have the 8th pick of 12, so I won't get the best value (A-Rod), but will end up with a very solid first pick (Ryan Howard or Chase Utley, whomever's available). I'm excited about it, and look forward to improve over last year, where I finished in 11th out of 12. Yikes.

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Random Lyric/Quote of the Week:

I'm going to alternate between music and film. Since last week was Chevelle, here's a movie line for ya.


"It was a rough place... the seediest dive on the wharf. Populated with every reject and cutthroat from Bombay to Calcutta. It's worse than Detroit. "
- Ted Stryker
Airplane!