October 2009
3 posts
Deadline day
One of the things I like about my job is that I get to run around town one day and the next I get to write in the newsroom. Monday night I had a borough council meeting, Tuesday morning two preliminary court hearings, Tuesday afternoon I went on a hawk watch and Tuesday night visited the home of a 5th place world champion in the Agility World Championship in Austria the weekend of Sept. 18. I saw...
September 2009
13 posts
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Happy 8 a.m.
This is such a bad decision: going to spin class on a day when I head to my best friends’ new apartment to play all night. It’s 8 a.m. I need to take a nap when I get home, but I’m planning on stopping off at the township library to grab a book or two about the history of intriguing Horsham, PA. I’m writing an article about a real estate firm making renovations on a...
Friday
Had a really nice day today. Started with a 3 a.m. phone call from someone saying he missed me, went to the gym then went to work. Wrote awhile and then covered a visiting author at the middle school, Pseudonymous Bosch. He’s apparently a secret author. He didn’t take off his sunglasses at all during his presentation, which is certainly odd, but intriguing. I made friends with some...
Achoooink
Paging Dr. Gupta…
http://pagingdrgupta.blogs.cnn.com/2009/09/23/i-went-to-afghanistan-and-all-i-got-was-h1n1/
CNN’s medical correspondent (the guy who was almost the Obama surgeon general) reports about his experience contracting swine flu while reporting from Afghanistan.
“I am not someone who gets sick, really ever. And this was the sickest I have ever been,” he...
The church fair
My editor sent me out to cover a church fair tonight, one of those carnivals that normally take place during the summer. “Be creative with it, don’t feel like you have to stick to the standard news article layout,” he said.
Hello, paintball.
I was hanging out waiting for the reverind to finish dinner and speak with me, so I took a little walk around. Saw the standard carnival...
Obama is on all the network morning talk shows
Yup.
Life
I’m going to give this another shot.
Amanda post three week blog hiatis, a summary:
I got a job. I just finished my first week as a REAL reporter. Yes, it’s amazing. Answering a phone saying “Newsroom, this is Amanda” is really surreal.
I went on somewhere between half-a-dozen and a dozen meetings with people in Philadelphia. I went to KYW, the Philadelphia Inquirer,...
Scale
Cool: Getting text messages and e-mails from a rockstar presidential candidate during the campaign season.
Not: Mitch Stewart, I do not want your post-election Obama propaganda.
Today I saw a few people with the same Fbook status:
No one should die because they cannot afford healthcare, and no one should go broke because they are sick. If you agree, please post this as your status for the rest...