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News: A Tiresome Endeavor
Posted by Brendan on Saturday, October 11 @ 06:00:00 PDT
Throughout a busy day, I am still hard pressed to shake the yawns. |
Every day it's chaos from rise to nap to other nap until bedtime. It's nothing in the newsroom but hustle, electricity, and the bringing of top stories. And I have to tell you, it wears me down.
From reports in the field to photo shoots to managing the progress of the paper, I'm a very busy man. I haven't even had time to shave yet, ever. I'm not complaining, certainly not about the shaving. I think this look fits me well, and bringing the news is what I do.
So let me outline a typical day for me, now that I'm coming up on my ten month birthday.
8:30 - Rise. Stretch, sit around my crib for a while.
9:00 - Breakfast. Often cereal, oatmeal, or mush; sometimes with a bottle. I like to start early, you know, but I don't have a problem. And, ever the health nut, I pass on the coffee.
9:30 - Morning lessons. I study advanced courses in color, texture, and sound. Interactive lessons like grabbing things and banging them on other things or just putting them in my mouth. Time permitting I go on adventures around the office. Check out all the rooms, see what's changed since the day before, I try getting into stuff I know I'm not allowed to, that sort of behavior.
 11:00 - Nap time. Pretty beat after a morning like that. Sometimes it's preceded by a bath.
1:00 - Rise and shine again. When there are field assignments, they are usually done at this time. If not, it's straight to the newsroom. We look over the daily reports, read the extensive fan mail that comes in, and get to the real work.
3:00 - Lunch. I am a snacker, so I'm not limiting myself to a mere three meals a day (and my thighs are paying dearly for it.) Here I usually have a diced sandwich that I quite literally cram into my face… oh, you can just feel the love in that peanut butter.
3:30 - Meet with my older brother, who is working as something of an agent for me. There's an upcoming feature about his admirable professionalism, but he's already four so there's no surprise there. We talk over the news, look at breaking news photos, and play with dinosaurs and plastic frogs, whatever needs to be done.
5:00 - If the article ain't done (which it never is) I sit down with my assistants and hammer it out. Usually I'll just dictate, though sometimes I have to get in there and bang on the keys myself. They insist I'm not helping, but we know who has the brains of the operation around here, right?
6:15 - Nap mach II. Gotta get some sleep in.
7:15 - Rise and shine, yet again. Man, if you hate getting up each day, think how I feel doing it three times. Are you getting any insight into my state of perpetual sleepiness?
7:30 - It's dinnertime. By this point I'm about dying. Haven't had a real meal in hours and usually not even a snack in, like, about an hour. It's time for the grub. The whole office sits down together, and we unwind over something. We eat together, we eat the same thing… Except that eccentric brother of mine, he usually holds out for Cheerios, another sandwich, or a corn dog. Marketing people, you know?
8:00 - By this time it's either crunch time or unwind time. Finish up the articles, get them to press, move on with our lives. Unwind, get ready for another tiring day of news. We might watch the musical episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer (don't know why, but I really get into it) or a movie, or we'll hang out and play games.
8:30 - Off to bed. I like to read before bedtime, but I'm usually so tired I just have someone read to me. It's a lot easier that way, though it's embarrassing when I fall asleep part way through. Though not embarrassing until morning, so it's not so bad.
Continued after photos...
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LEFT: Seen yawning mid-day during production in the newsroom. -- RIGHT: Visiting with my old man, it's time well spent, I'm just so sleepy. Almost makes me feel guilty. |
Technically there's like three to four midnight snacks involved between night and morning, but I don't think it really bears mention since again, I have people for that. In closing, I feel I must point out once more that I'm not complaining of my tiresome life of journalism, just sharing it with you as I love to do. If you want to reward me more for my efforts tell a friend about me; send me a letter if you like, or whatever you can. Remember, at least 20% of the reason I do all this, is for you.
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