Starting over...
My reintroduction to TV news started out fairly smoothly, but has recently become insanely stressful. Initially, the powers that be took things fairly easy on me. My first story was cake--fire safety training at a local college.
This week was not so fun, however. Monday was the first 5 o'clock show ever at our station. Great--how many stations are actually growing in this economy?--but planning/editing/production has been absolutely insane. For people specializing in communications, we're not doing a very good job of communicating with each other.
I hate complaining about this because I am very grateful to have a job in my field and to be living the dream, but it is very frustrating to be relearning a job in an environment that expects me to be as good as I was nine months ago.
To say the least, I am just very relieved to have a few days off from the business. I need some time to regroup and fall back in love with the job. For the most part, I have been able to sort of pick up where I left off in December.
Auto Update
Still loving the Kia. The boy isn't real impressed my driving ability since discovering I have already cracked the plastic skid plate on a piece of wood in the road. He was relieved to learn he didn't let me buy it broken, but let's just say he wasn't thrilled by my skills.
I've only filled up the tank once, and I'm not all that sure the gas mileage is all it's cracked up to be. I'm hoping my suspicions about a broken gas gauge are correct and that this is truly more economical. We shall see.
