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Blah blah blah. Today I had to be in Middleburg at 730 am and I had to leave here at 645. Not so much fun.
Otherwise today was very similar to most of my other days; busy and incredibly short. Rich called me downtown today. I got a "We need to talk, how soon can you be here?" kind of e-mail. I naturally assumed my job was over and started to freak. But I got down there and had lots of good things to say; he mostly said that he felt bad for me being out in Shitsville.
Which reminds me. The other day Lamar asked me if I was willing to be the content coordinator for the other Sun products. Being a moron, I said yes. I haven't had to do anything yet since those papers haven't opened their Web sites, but once they do....damn.
Good evening, fellow inhabitants of Awesomeville. Work has been pretty sweet, I am still working 7 days a week but I feel less stressed, which means either I'm getting used to the work or drinking too much.
The site is doing awesome traffic-wise, but we have a few complete assholes blogging, but as long as they dont break the decency or soliciation standards we have, I can't do anything about them. Oh yeah, we also have one complete crazy lady who put random stream-of-consciousness stuff up, except not in a good Fante way, but in a bad bird-lady way.
I'm also reading the short stories of John Cheever and it's already one of the most goodest books I've ever read.
Oh yeah, and Gray is in Jordan. Do any of you know Gray? Does anyone even read this damned thing?
One last thing. The camera I've been given for work is the rig of my dreams: Canon 30d, 580ex speedlite, L series 28-135 IS US lens. I've got a picture of what it looks like
This afternoon I was driving back from meeting with the PR girl at Thrasher-Horner Center for the Arts when I saw a teenage girl on the side of the road banging on the sidewalk with a 2x4 trying to shoo a huge snapping turtle out of the road. I was on the cellphone at the time and slightly lost, so I didn't realize how strange the situation was until I was sitting at a red light a couple of minutes later. WTF? I thought Did I just see a girl banging on the sidewalk with a stick of wood trying to encourage a turtle's progress across a busy 2-lane road? The turtle was pretty huge, and completely stretched out while "running", if you can even assign that term to a turtle, no matter how fast it's going. I have an artist's rendering. 
I was listening to an NPR story on my way back from work about how a billion honey bees have disappeared from bee farms around America.
Apparently those little stinging bastards also pollinate our crops and they said California's onion crop will be 85% lost this season. The bee experts were asking for emergency money from the gov because they think it's going to be a big agricultural nightmare when nothing grows due to the lack of pollination.
They said the bees just disappeared- no bodies, no nothing. Most of the time the queen bee and a few helpers are all the remain, while the rest of the hive just vanishes. They don't know where the bees go.
But then I figured it out. No bees = no pollination = no American food = death to Americans.
I suppose you can put the rest together. Yes, honey bees are terrorists and that's the inside job the FBI has been expecting.
Who would look out for the wildlife? And armed with billions of stinging missiles, how could we stop them?
I for one welcome our Bee overlords.
I'll admit, I'm pretty much just writing this because I'm counting the minutes until an Ebay auction is over (8min 32sec) and I hate sitting there refreshing the page, watching the time count down.
Today was interesting. Last night my boss told me that I was working too much and that I should take half a day off. See, I am technically an hourly employee and can't legally work more than 40hrs a week without overtime compensation. Except I'm not allowed to work overtime because they can't afford to pay overtime. Except I can't do my job at 40hrs a week.
If I had to guess, I'm working 60 or so, which is fine because I have nothing else to do and I enjoy working there. As a matter of fact, most days I'm there by 9, and 15 minutes later its 4:30 in the afternoon. (5min 9sec)
So today I came in at 1pm, taking the first half off. It was ok, I got to sleep in, but it also threw my daily pattern off, so I was kinda in a daze most of the time.
The good news is, I've got a lady who is very excited about being a community photographer for me and who is covering her very first event in the morning. Her excitement makes me excited and I can't wait to see how her pictures come out.
Brb. The auction only has 3 minutes remaining.
Son of a bitch! I bid in the last 15 seconds and someone swooped in and took it from me. I hate the bots that people run on Ebay.
Well, on that note, I guess I'll get some sleep. Stupid Ebay.
That's right. Back at it, in the office this timehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk2xWeFV3ZY
You think it's hypocritical to post one blog about the Tube being evil and then using the Tube for my own good? No way
I just tried to watch a video from a NBC affiliate in Augusta, GA (where I was an intern for Morris one summer) which showed a story they did about Krispy Kreme's new whole-wheat donut. Apparently, they had pulled the background graphic from the inter-tubes and it said "So good it will make you suck D*ck".
I thought that sounded awesome but when I clicked on the You Tube link to watch it, the content had been pulled by the affiliate. Censorship? Looks like with the new corporate influence on You Tube, "copyrighted" pieces are getting yanked.
Evidence
Video from the Oscars- gone
Videos of embarassing broadcast moments- gone
Video of Steve Perry singing Faithfully- still there, thank God
And the worst thing is, everything just gets posted on the Tube now. Everyone assumes that it will be around and it serves as an easy video hosting site. But if Tube controls the videos, what happens when everyone starts calling their copyrights in?
Sometimes I feel like I'm in the stone age at work. I can't blame anybody for thinking this way, but when someones tells me that we cant run a picture from the site because it doesnt have any cutlines and I saw yeah well thats the way it is supposed to be then we dont run the pic, I just dont get it.
I understand journalistic integrity, but the times have changed and the rules are going to have to be broken in order to make some progress. And of course, everyone at work will get used to this stuff and resist it less as I ram it down their throats, but in the mean time its frustrating.
Today was also set to be the worst day of work ever. And of about 2:30, it was. I had decided to introduce our first expert blogger ever, a wine expert who also happened to be the husband of one of the staff reporters. I interviewed him, got a pic and wrote the story. The whole idea was then pulled for ethical issues, didnt want people to get upset for us promoting him while he's related to a staff member.
Ugh, I'm tired.
And finally, this is the first time in my life that I've ever heard people actually talk about Weight Watchers and points and carbohydrates and cholesterol. I guess I'm officially in the white, middle-aged, middle-class, middle-America
