grind

It was a long, weird day today. Here’s a quick run down into the events that shaped my day:

8:45 - Arrived at the station and watched a few minutes of the Academy Award nominations before heading out the door with my reporter, Myra. The last nomination I heard was for Jennifer Hudson, which was barely audible over Nigel’s overpowering approval as he shouted, “Oh yeah!”

9:00 - Downtown press conference to name finalists for chief of police. It was already my second press conference this week, but I was savoring every second of it because the moment it was over wed have to go to court.

9:20 - Hung out in the corner of a courtroom, doing everything I could to minimize my presence. We got to watch two preliminary hearings play out - one of them was a homicide case involving a deaf defendant and deaf victims. It was interesting having sign language interpreters in the room because both sides were unable to “whisper” amongst themselves without the other side (or spectators) knowing what they were saying The other case was interesting, but it’ll take too long to explain in any way that actually makes it sound interesting.

11:35 - Lunch. We headed over to Blimpie for “$2.50 Tuesday”. When we got back to the station I kept telling people about “$2.50 Tuesday” - I have no idea why. Maybe I thought I was being helpful. Today I learned how many people I work with don’t like eating stuff from a Blimpie attached to a gas station.

1:00 - Interview with the local police chief candidate in front of the “cop shop” (as we refer to it).

1:30 - Back at the station again. Loaded video onto the server and started to check my email, but was soon sent out the door for some spot news.

2:00 - Arrived at the scene of a “car vs. house” situation less than a mile away. The car totally demolished this guy’s iron railing on his porch, but stopped short of busting into the dining room. The guy that lives there gave me an interview and was unmoved by the incident, saying, “(sigh) this happens all the time here.”

2:40 - Got back to the station and started editing a bunch of stuff, leading up to the evening news. After my story was filed, I got caught-up on making Emmy entry DVDs.

6:00 - Spent the last part of my shift treating video - drawing mosaic tiles over teen-age girls faces on screen to conceal their identities (kinda like they do on select episodes of Cops).

And that’s my Tuesday!