I got at 10am, since Derek asked me to come in earlier the week before. I wondered what the day would hold. With Felicia on vacation, would I be running more stories? Yes and no, I suppose. It was a rather slow news day. Derek came by and asked me to do a story on [...]

By day 6, I settled into the routine of starting my morning in the newsroom. As soon as I got in, I checked my email to see if Derek had sent out another budget, but I didn’t see it in there. I did see a few emails from my job at Texas State, but it [...]

Two nights before day five, I decided to stay up until 7:00am playing video games. A friend of mine and co-worker at the ETC Center at Texas State, got me hooked on World of Warcraft. I’ve heard this game can be addictive, and it’s because it’s such a vast universe with so much stuff to [...]

The drive to Seguin was rather eventful. Unfortunately, my A/C has been broken the last couple of weeks, so I’ve been driving around with the windows rolled down. As I was cruising along I-35, near San Marcos, this HUGE yellow and black bug with a striped butt jumped onto my dashboard and started walking around. [...]

Earlier in the week, Derek emailed the weekly budget. A budget shows what stories plan to run on which days. He had me down for a Friday story about pecan farming, so I had a feeling I would be investigating that story when I got in on Thursday. If it was due the next day, [...]

The day before, Derek had told me that I could come in between 10:30a and 11a this day. The other journalists didn’t get in until this time either, so coming in earlier would mean just sitting around for an hour and a half. I was super relieved to get to sleep later. Driving from Austin, [...]

I left my house at 7:15am with the intention of being in Seguin by 8:30am. I had intended to leave about 15 minutes earlier, but nerves from the night before meant I had trouble sleeping that night. While I didn’t necessarily oversleep, I slept longer than I wanted. Nonetheless, off I was to start my [...]