Well, wouldn't you knw that my last day at the paper the biggest story in my two years of working the city hall beat came down. The city administrator got the announcement of his sacking sent out over the email. And I had a 9:30 a.m. meeting with a guy from Aberdeen who seems oddly amenable to the idea of me crashing in his (as yet unlived-in) house. So Kalyn and I were forced to collaborate. Poor kid has to take over the city beat with the Lifestyles and the education beats for at least the next couple of weeks. And isn't this the best time for stuff to be hitting the ceiling. She already had an emotional moment after talking to above-mentioned administrator; I told her (and I ended up telling him) my first day doing the city beat, and talking to that administrator, I just wept my little eyes out, but everything got a lot better quickly. That's right, people. I pulled a Mary Tyler Moore in the newsroom before. And he's not so bad. In fact, he told me I failed to meet his exceedingly low expectations to become one of his favorite reporters, and, yes, he's got us all ordinally ranked and I'm not number one (or two) but I'd rather not be any source's favorite reporter they dealt with ever. Except maybe some of my feature-y sources.
At any rate, my last day went down with some spot news. And, as I rushed to get comments and interviews, I realized, "hell yeah, I love this adrenaline deadline shiznit!" Which bodes well for the Daily World. Spot news, baby. I rock ALL the spots, call all the shots.
2 comments:
Hi Callie,
What is your new email address going to be?
You rock, Callie! Welcome to The Daily World (or as one prominent Republican running for statewide office called it recently, 'The Daily Worker.' heh) Keep bringin' the apple bubblegum and I will be your friend for life. Hooyah :)
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