Some Days You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb or (How I forgot what a verb was)
Wednesday was a very long, very eventful day where things went wrong and I lost my grip on grammer.
While I was in the middle of approving and writing scripts, Chris Marchand’s youngest daughter asked for help with her grammer homework. She needed help identifying the main verb and verb phrase in a sentence.
“No problem!” I thought, but as soon as I looked at the page, everything went right out the window. I had to call my best friend Meg in New Orleans to help her.
After reading the sentence to Meg, she gave me a brief have-you-completely-lost-your-mind pause, then said, “Enocha, there’s only one verb in that sentence.”
I looked at the sentence again, and sure enough, there was only one verb.
The rest of the day wasn’t much better. I won’t even go into it. Yes, Virginia, even producers have bad days.
Erin Hawley did make it a little better. She did her best Orphan Annie impersonation by dancing her way to my desk while also singing “The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow.” And according to Chief Forecaster Jerry Tabatt, it will be.
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When the Music Stops, Find a Desk
This week has started a new game: musical desks.
Laura Hartog, the morning producer, and I have shared a desk since I started working at News 13. Today, we still do, but the location has changed. We are now on the opposite side of the news room.
The person who had the desk before, Taylor, the intrepid 6 o’ clock News Producer, has moved to the assignment editor’s old desk.
The assignment editor, Heather, moved to the director’s old office.
And the directors have moved to a room generally refered to as The Cave. It’s all terribly exciting.
Friday, my husband and I leave for Disney World. I’m sure I’ll have something much more interesting to write then.
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Books are Ruining my Diet
It looks as if I’m going to be eating kids meals from Hardees for a few weeks. They are putting out toys for the upcoming movie Coraline, which is an adaptation of a Neil Gaiman story.
Mostly, I think I just want the War of Worlds card game.
So much for my latest attempt to eat healthy.
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About Me
I'm a fourth generation Floridian. I have degrees from Chipola Junior College (when it was still a junior college) and the University of West Florida. When I was at UWF, I lived off of exit 13. Back in Panama City, I began working at News 13 on November 13th, 2006. Thirteen has proved to be my lucky number. Last year, I joined the Panama City Roller Derby League. When I'm not providing the Panhandle with the latest news, I'm tearing up the track with over 20 other roller girls, two of which are also News 13 employees. I'm sure I drive everyone at work insane with all my talk of derby. But hey, that's how I roll.
Recent Entries:
- Some Days You Just Can’t Get Rid of a Bomb or (How I forgot what a verb was)
- When the Music Stops, Find a Desk
- Books are Ruining my Diet
- I’m Going to Read Like Its 2009
- Our First Christmas
- New Traditions and New Paint
- Better Together
- 28 Days
- Nice Day for a Fit Wedding
- Seek and Ye Shall Find
- Do Not Panic! Or at Least Panic in your Predesignated Subgroups!
- This is my Cat Post
- Help Me Get Married!!!
- Star Search
- Zen and the Art of Wedding Planning
Other News13 Blogs:
- The Casual Historian - Larche Hardy
- Derby Girl - Enocha Van Lierop
- The Newby - Jessi Chapin
- Gainesville, Georgia's All American Girl - Tuquyen Mach
