Wow. It's April already. I've been here a year. How did that happen?
I had intended to blog all about my trip to Chicago last weekend (It was great. Terrific weather. Greek Independence Day Parade. Good food. Good friends. Sigh. Why am I in New York?) But upon my return I've done nothing but work. I go in around 10 a.m. and I get home around 11 p.m. or midnight. Plus I've had homework for Spanish and tutoring. The last two days were hell. I was the only editor in the office and people were asking me for stuff WAY outside my job description — freelancer budgets, staff overtime estimates. I don't do that kind of paperwork. I read stories. Assign stories. Try to squeeze blood from a turnip. I have nothing to do with money.
I squeezed a LOT of blood out of the turnips this week, by the way. I can't even tell you the creative juggling I did to get enough stories to fill our paper. Tomorrow is my last day alone...then everyone comes back and on Friday I leave to go to my parents for Easter. Plus, we've had a reporter out on long-term sick leave who came back and there was no one but ME there to talk to her about her situation in the newsroom, all the changes that are going on, etc. And in addition to all the other work I was doing, I was having to find daily stories for her to cover and then sit down with her when I edited, which made the process 20x longer than it needed to be. But she's our weakest reporter...weaker than the interns and the news clerk. She doesn't seem to understand the basics of reporting, which is a major problem. MAJOR problem.
Anyway, all that is to say that is why I've been absent from my blog lately. Oh and I made a 82 on that last test. The class average was 54. She had to give a "pop" extra credit quiz on Monday — which she told us she was giving, thereby negating the pop portion of the quiz — worth up to 20 points added to your test grade. I missed at least one and made one word feminine, which is supposed to be masculine, so I won't get full credit, but I should at least have an A when all is said and done.
That's it for now. I've got to go catch up on all the stuff I haven't been able to do because of work. Oh, Happy April Fools Day and also Palm Sunday.
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Whoa! It's been a year already?
[Sigh] Yes, it has been a year already — one both short and long at the same time. Hopefully year two will see me more settled in.
Well, you've accomplished a lot in your long/short year, so feel good about that. Based on my experience I've decided that it takes a solid year to get set in a new place. So, toast to that! Year two, here you come.
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