No cubicles for me!

"A bad day in television is still better than a good day in a cubicle."

Mike is a genius. Granted today was just one of those days where absolutely nothing seemed to go right. But thankfully we're just doing the news and not saving lives!

To start with the most amazing football game didn't get recorded on the weekend becaues someone switched the inputs. Then it was a shit-show to get feeds of it from other regions. Things just kept adding up and seeming to go wrong.

We only had one producer and he tends to let things stack up and come in late, which screws us over in the control room and tonight it showed. When we were supposed to go live to the Bridge City and our reporter out on the street there, we rolled the pak instead. Then because the producer dropped something further in the line-up (because they didn't get anyone to edit it and lost the tape!) it screwed up the rundown and we went to black on air. Then the sports guy's mic was open the whole time (and he wouldn't quit talking even when I told him not to!!). It just seemed like one thing after another and thankfully Mike and I didn't get down about it and just pushed on through and finished the show.

It's definitely not going to go on any demo reels but at least it wasn't a complete clusterfuck. And then he put things in perspective as he always does.

I can only hope to be as talented and knowledgeable as him one day. He was sideline camera op at the football game on Saturday night and some of the replays off his camera were AMAZING.

I think I've found my new hero and he's not a middle-aged, alcoholic sports announcer!