I have a longer post to summarize the week, but for now, let me borrow my sister's technique of using bullet points, and after one last comma, quickly tell about my day...
Friday in Recap:
* Slept through alarm clock, again.
* Had breakfast in the dining hall for the first time this summer semester (and for about the fifth time in all my years at Mizzou).
* Found an open computer despite the multitude of high school journalists that have filled the newsroom for a conference this week.
* Got in touch with an important source who is on vacation.
* Failed to get in touch with some local senators.
* Got some help from one volunteer and no help whatsoever during my two calls to U.S. Senator Jim Talent's office.
* Did well on my first criminology quiz despite having studied for it only about 12 minutes.
* Watched an anti-drug film from the 1950s produced by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
* Got an extra package of Peanut M&Ms when the vending machine dropped two.
* Decided to post to blog before harassing local senators at their homes (a tactic I have kept from resorting to for the last three days).
Future forecast I plan to call senators, go to youth tonight, and stay up reading before returning to the Missourian tommorrow to work things out with the graphics desk, massage my article some more, do an accuracy check and pray that nothing creeps up over Sunday that would put an end to the Monday edition.
I've got some phone calls to make, so I'll let you go now.
In the words of Robert Frost, if he had typed something completely different than what actually ended up on the page, I have many lines to type before I sleep.
Take care and I hope you have more free time over this weekend than I do.
'TGI_wish__this_actually_felt_like_a_Friday'
