Friday=no fun day

I found out today that Friday is usually the busiest day at the desk. Most people do not come in to work on the weekends, so a lot of stuff has to be planned out and shot all on Friday. And on top of that, there were quite a few incidents that happened locally that kept me on the phone most of the day just trying to get more information out of people about what happened. My attempts were not very successful, and I was feeling a bit of pressure about it coming together, but I just kept coming up with dead ends. Hopefully as time goes on I'll get the hang of it, but from my experience today, I found that there are very few resources and the people I did call were in no rush to help me out.

I was also supposed to go shadow an anchor who works the early morning shift (meaning I get to wake up at 4), but that didn't work out. I will be able to go out with her some time next week, and I will be TiVo-ing it because she usually has the interns appear onscreen for demonstrations and things. She gets to do a lot of fun stories. For example, last week she went to the circus to learn how to become a clown, and she got to film an ice cream juggling contest at an ice cream shop in town!

I did get to shadow another reporter today though. She is working on a series that will air on News 8 in July (it's similar to a documentary.) The series is about childcare, so we got to go to a very highly acclaimed facility in Austin to film and interview some staff. Unfortunately, I did not get to goof around with the kids because we had to film them, and doing so means trying to be candid and not get involved. The day with her was interesting though, because her series allows her to get more in depth than most reporters, so it should turn out to be an interesting story.

There are a few things at the apartment I would like to work on over the weekend, but besides that I've got nothing! I've been lucky to have a lot of free time on my hands, but because I'm still a stranger to this town I am hesitant to venture out on my own a lot (especially at night). I am really looking forward to having family come to visit soon so we can go do some fun activities together! And I've always got my great cousins to show me around!