Saturday, July 29, 2006

Always Be Prepared

I struggled with what to title this post, b/c so many things happened today that were crazy, but I think this was the best choice. I also intended to make an outline b/c I did not want to leave anything out.

Well, normally, if I'm doing a story where I might get dirty (well it hasn't happened) my producer warns me. She warned me for the horse show we did, although my shoes never touched anything other than concrete. Ohhhhhhhhhh but today, she didn't tell me anything till I got there.

So I was looking cute, cute little dress shoes, nice makeup, and where do we go? To the frickin rodeo. A wild west show really. So we get there at 1, b/c we were told to be there at 1 to interview people, although the show didn't start until 2:30. We're told the star/host of the show would come out, and to meet him around the gate, and we did. I was like, "oh that would be cool, interviewing him through the gate." But what does he do? He opens the gate, and tells us to come on in. Amongst dirt and dung. So here's the little conversation.
My producer:"oh okay."
Me: "Mmmm I don't know."
And of course, what I thought would happen did happen. I took one step in, and started sinking, and hence, the rest of the convo...
Me: "Uhhhhhh I don't think this will work."
My producer: "Are you okay?"
Me (thinking): "Of course I'm not okay, I'm sinking in cow/horse/cattle dung!"
I was not prepared for dung.
I step out and brace myself and step back in, and the interview starts.

Now I don't think I mentioned this, but also, he rode up on his horse, Charlie. So Charlie's there, trying to get on the camera (b/c apparently he's famous and all, been on a CBS miniseries and a Robert Duvall movie) and he's like righthere, next to my chest. Idk if horses can smell fear, or maybe b/c Charlie's 20 years old and his sniffer's not as good as it used to be, but I swear he was going to knock me down, as many times as he swung his head over towards me. I wasn't prepared for horses being thisclose to my face.

And so, we're waiting and waiting, people start to show up. There's this one lady that comes in with a group and a teeny tiny teency tiny baby. And we're like "that baby HAS to be no more than 2 weeks old" he was so tiny. So she's almost slinging him around, she leaves with him, comes back. I look up into the stands, people watching, and I see her with a blanket over part of her chest. I've seen that before, she's frickin breastfeeding! AT THE RODEO!!!! What the world man. Who breastfeeds at the rodeo? It was crazy. I was not prepared for lactating mothers.

A couple of things

Soooooooo.......
It's official.
I'm going to the NABJ Conference this year. It will be and EXTREMELY busy time for me. I'll be working, getting contacts, networking, talking to recruiters. And also, trying to meet the people I've been laughing and crying with in cyberspace for months. I really hated that I wasn't going to be able to go, but hey, it's all working out so far. I'm currently looking for a room to lay my head in between workshops. And like I told some folks, I'm willing to sleep in the bathtub.

But also,
This will be a family vacation, afterwards. My uncle and mother are going to pick me up after the conference and we'll go to Chicago, visit some family, go to Michigan, visit some more family, you know how it goes. Unfortunately, I'm not looking forward to the drive back to Texas. It's frickin 14 hours!!! I'm just glad I won't be the one behind the wheel, b/c I've driven it before, NEVER AGAIN!

Thursday, July 27, 2006

I'm Toni

And.....guess where she's from??? My hometown!!!!!

You scored as Toni. Woohu!! Youre a Toni. Damn grl you could shop all day long and still not be tired! Sometimes you go for the guys that can offer you things instead of going for the guys that you really care about and offer their heart out most to you. Nevertheless, youre still a great friend and would do anything for your girlfriends. You go grl!!

Toni

100%

Joan

88%

Mya

75%

Lynn

25%

Which girlfriend are you?(from the hit tv show girlfriends)
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Monday, July 24, 2006

First Jesse Ventura...

What really bothers me most about this clip is her head movement and CONSTANT blinking. She almost looks like a robot, or it looks like someone edited her movements together to make it look weird. But anywho, would you vote for her?

Friday, July 21, 2006

Bored posting

Soo.....

Not much is happening. Well a bunch is happening, but nothing you would care about. I started working on another resume tape this week. I went out with one of my co-workers on her story. She is the craziest (funny crazy) person I have ever met, but she knows how to get the job done. And tonight, it was like Friday Night Live, Party Central on our side of the newsroom. Said co-worker had people cracking up, she had herself in tears, it was hee-larry-us (as I've seen on another blog).

But...
I have a full weekend. I get to go to training bright and early tomorrow morning for our new tv cameras at church. Then I get to come back out here and do a story (on what, I don't remember) but hopefully it will be at least somewhat entertaining. Then, I get to go back to the house where i'm house/dog sitting and do my laundry. I really need to go ahead and get started on editing the story I did Tuesday, and I'm sure I will, I just don't know when I'll do it. I'll probably try to do it tomorrow, or at least dub the tape so it doesn't get recycled (you know, even with a "hold" sticker, people will still take stuff and use it, it already happened during my internship)

And....
Today was quite an eventful day. High speed chases that ended with the truck plunging into a little waterway (looked like that ride at Six Flags). Fires fires and more fires, EVERYWHERE. Shootings, and stabbings and robberies, oh my. ALL IN ONE DAY. But, this is the business I chose, and I love every minute of it. I can't wait to do as good a job as my co-workers did today during the breaking news we stayed with during our hour-long show.

Monday, July 17, 2006

I hope someone is this excited to marry me someday.

Saturday, July 08, 2006

Weird sightings and other junk

Sooooooooooooo I'm sitting here trying to write a story about a horse show. A FRICKIN HORSE SHOW. It was boring, it smelled, I was sleepy, I ended up having to stand the entire time we were there. Just all out not the best time of my life. But there were some interesting moments.

At the beginning the spouted off the sponsors, and the special people they wanted to thank for being there or supporting the organization. And luckily the intern warned us that my producer/photog would get a shout out, otherwise she probably would've freaked. And so ironically, when they called her name, she got the biggest and loudest hand clap.

Anywho, there's a bunch of videos, a little cowboy mounted shooting act thingamabober, and then, we see her. This lady had to have been in her 50's, maybe 40's, but I'm thinking 50's. I saw it first on her neck, then on her thigh, then on her ankle. I COUNTED 3 TATOOS!! And it they didn't look like they were old and had stretched either. Other funny thing was, she wasn't dressed like everyone else, in jeans, cowboy hat and boots (only in Texas). But when she sat down, she pulled out a peach, and my producer/photog was like "Oh my gosh she's putting salt on a peach," and she motioned for me to slide over and see. It was weird, I don't think I've ever seen anyone do that before. But she was just a weird lady all in all.

But I guess the highlight of this thing was the event we felt we had enough video for. Team penning-Finals. A team of 3 cowboys had to get 3 cows with the same number into a pen, and whoever had the fastest time and got all 3 cows had a pretty good shot at winning. But they had to tally it up with their previous scores from the day before. It was actually kind of interesting and exciting, for what it was.

But now I'm stuck, trying to figure out what I'm going to say AND how I'm going to get back out there with no gas. I should've went ahead and wrote it and edited tonight. Although I'd probably just now be getting home.

Anywho, I hope everyone is having a safe weekend. Funny how something else that's been on my mind just ended up coming out of my fingers, instead of weekend. More on that other topic later, when I'm not too depressed and tired to write about it.