People were beginning to wonder, so I thought I'd clear up any confusion. Yep. Still kickin'. I know loved ones have emailed, and sisters have called, and friends have wanted to have lunch with me ... and believe me, I REALLY want to do all those things - and I will, very soon. I just have been working 12-13 hours a day lately, holding down the fort until the assistant features editor starts. Haven't had time for any personal emails, phone calls, or, well, thoughts, really. I even Dream about work. Yuck.
I'm really liking this job, but it's seriously screwing with my mind and body. If I have time for lunch at all, it's around 5 p.m. and it's in the office breakroom, while I continue to edit stories, proof pages and think of all the things I should have done three hours (or three days) ago. That late lunch time would really suck if it weren't for the fact that I don't get home and sit down to dinner til nearly 10 p.m. most nights. And then it's back to work, from home, after that.
Anyway, don't feel bad for me -- I'm having a ball and learning a lot. Just please don't think I'm avoiding or ignoring you ... I'm not (because that would take mental and physical energy that I simply don't have to spare).
Love y'all....
Oh baby!
I haven't posted any cute photos in awhile, so I thought I'd spread the good news that little Joey, the sweet boy pictured here, has a baby brother!! My friends Laura and Joe welcomed Julius Terrell into the world on Monday morning. He was born via c-section at 7:52 a.m., weighing 6.42 pounds and 18.5 inches long (tall?). Mama and baby are doing fine. I've gotta give Laura a call tomorrow, but Joe was absolutely beaming when he called me Monday morning. I was so touched to be one of the first to hear the good news. Love you guys!! Now I have FOUR excellent reasons to visit Cincinnati...
Chicks rule
People keep telling me I need to update my blog. I’ve been so busy at work that I haven’t had time to think about much of anything else.
Well, there is one thing that’s been nagging at the back of my brain. I caught a radio interview with one of the Dixie Chicks last week, and she was talking about their latest album, which critics are saying is their best ever. The problem is that tons of country radio stations refuse to play it because the band was labeled “unpatriotic” in 2003 when lead singer Natalie Maines said, in a London club to a Dixie Chicks audience, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”
Never mind that we were on the verge of declaring war under false pretenses, as our president and his administration were fabricating a link between Sept. 11 and Iraq.
Never mind that she had been surrounded by the European press all week who seemed to be lumping all Americans into one pro-Bush, mindless blob of idiots who were just out for blood in the name of Sept. 11, and she wanted to set the record straight and say that we Americans do think for ourselves.
Never mind that part of the beauty of being an American is the right to free speech, an ideal that should be heralded, not shunned.
Natalie took a beating for that statement, which back then made me shake my head at how much of America is really, embarrassingly small-minded. But it’s THREE YEARS LATER, people! I honestly couldn’t believe that there are entire radio stations that are still banning that band, and scores of Americans who are letting them (even insisting that they do!).
I’m not a huge country music fan (though I have the Chicks’ first album from eons ago). I am, however, proud to call Natalie Maines a fellow American. In fact, she is the kind of citizen I want this country to be known for: Gutsy, intelligent, artistic and strong-willed. Rock on.
(As of Monday, June 19, 2006, at least 2,503 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Associated Press.)
Well, there is one thing that’s been nagging at the back of my brain. I caught a radio interview with one of the Dixie Chicks last week, and she was talking about their latest album, which critics are saying is their best ever. The problem is that tons of country radio stations refuse to play it because the band was labeled “unpatriotic” in 2003 when lead singer Natalie Maines said, in a London club to a Dixie Chicks audience, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.”
Never mind that we were on the verge of declaring war under false pretenses, as our president and his administration were fabricating a link between Sept. 11 and Iraq.
Never mind that she had been surrounded by the European press all week who seemed to be lumping all Americans into one pro-Bush, mindless blob of idiots who were just out for blood in the name of Sept. 11, and she wanted to set the record straight and say that we Americans do think for ourselves.
Never mind that part of the beauty of being an American is the right to free speech, an ideal that should be heralded, not shunned.
Natalie took a beating for that statement, which back then made me shake my head at how much of America is really, embarrassingly small-minded. But it’s THREE YEARS LATER, people! I honestly couldn’t believe that there are entire radio stations that are still banning that band, and scores of Americans who are letting them (even insisting that they do!).
I’m not a huge country music fan (though I have the Chicks’ first album from eons ago). I am, however, proud to call Natalie Maines a fellow American. In fact, she is the kind of citizen I want this country to be known for: Gutsy, intelligent, artistic and strong-willed. Rock on.
(As of Monday, June 19, 2006, at least 2,503 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to the Associated Press.)
Movin' on up
So the features editor at our paper just resigned, and the higher-ups promoted me to her position! I happily said yes, and then, in a fit of insanity, I proposed that I not only do her job but I continue to do mine.
Why did I do that, you ask? I have no idea. Perhaps I’m a control freak. Perhaps I’ve grown too attached to my little twice weekly Bluffton Packet tabloid. Honestly, I think it has more to do with the fact that I just hired one of the coolest young reporters ever, and I didn’t want to stop working with her.
For whatever reason, the idea seemed to make sense at the time, and it was a proposal that was accepted by the publisher as “brilliant.” So now I’ll be in charge of three reporters, an assistant features editor, a news clerk and a host of freelancers.
Wish me luck! I’m sure as hell gonna need it.
Why did I do that, you ask? I have no idea. Perhaps I’m a control freak. Perhaps I’ve grown too attached to my little twice weekly Bluffton Packet tabloid. Honestly, I think it has more to do with the fact that I just hired one of the coolest young reporters ever, and I didn’t want to stop working with her.
For whatever reason, the idea seemed to make sense at the time, and it was a proposal that was accepted by the publisher as “brilliant.” So now I’ll be in charge of three reporters, an assistant features editor, a news clerk and a host of freelancers.
Wish me luck! I’m sure as hell gonna need it.
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