It's alive... ALIVE!!!!
The curse has struck again.
Today I was filling in at work. It was my first time working with our main male anchor (you see where this is headed don't ya?) Five minutes before air a page goes through the building for Maintenance to go to the studio NOW. That's never a good sign, and it only got worse.
We're getting a new set in the studio. Unfortunately we don't have a back-up studio so all the building has to be done in between newscasts. Sometime today during the construction some things got unplugged and it messed up our lighting control board.
The beginning of the first block went just fine, but right before the tease, the lights all go off... on air. Thankfully our male anchor covered well, making some comment about how we're preparing for Halloween with a new "scary" (and he made hand motions here,) look.
We finally got the lights back on a half an hour later. But in between there it was pretty crazy trying to drag in enough lights so the cameras could pick up the talent. And during all of this my cordless Prompter control dies during a story. So I'm kneeling on the ground running prompter for the anchors (yeah our back-up is in a dumb place,) and trying to stay out of the way from the people rigging up emergency lights. I swear, if I'm not cursed then the studio is possessed.
But speaking of Halloween, I carved my first pumpkin last night.
I know it seems weird, but I can't ever remember carving a pumpkin before. I know my dad carved some pretty cool ones, but either he wouldn't let me, or I didn't want to do my own. So for my first attempt I choose Mickey Mouse. And although it's not perfect I'm really proud of it. I was afraid it'd come out looking like a little kid did it. Especially since I drew the pattern myself.
After doing all the cutting and cleaning myself I can easily understand why I never did it as a kid... it's hard. And when all the work was done I toasted some Pumpkin seeds (they are sooo addictive.) Yup, I felt pretty domestic last night. I even did some sewing for my Halloween costume. There are still more modifications to be made, but I was a mini-Martha yesterday for sure.
JR's pumpkin turned out great.
Both of our pumpkins reflect our personalties perfectly.
Today I was filling in at work. It was my first time working with our main male anchor (you see where this is headed don't ya?) Five minutes before air a page goes through the building for Maintenance to go to the studio NOW. That's never a good sign, and it only got worse.
We're getting a new set in the studio. Unfortunately we don't have a back-up studio so all the building has to be done in between newscasts. Sometime today during the construction some things got unplugged and it messed up our lighting control board.
The beginning of the first block went just fine, but right before the tease, the lights all go off... on air. Thankfully our male anchor covered well, making some comment about how we're preparing for Halloween with a new "scary" (and he made hand motions here,) look.
We finally got the lights back on a half an hour later. But in between there it was pretty crazy trying to drag in enough lights so the cameras could pick up the talent. And during all of this my cordless Prompter control dies during a story. So I'm kneeling on the ground running prompter for the anchors (yeah our back-up is in a dumb place,) and trying to stay out of the way from the people rigging up emergency lights. I swear, if I'm not cursed then the studio is possessed.
But speaking of Halloween, I carved my first pumpkin last night.
I know it seems weird, but I can't ever remember carving a pumpkin before. I know my dad carved some pretty cool ones, but either he wouldn't let me, or I didn't want to do my own. So for my first attempt I choose Mickey Mouse. And although it's not perfect I'm really proud of it. I was afraid it'd come out looking like a little kid did it. Especially since I drew the pattern myself.
After doing all the cutting and cleaning myself I can easily understand why I never did it as a kid... it's hard. And when all the work was done I toasted some Pumpkin seeds (they are sooo addictive.) Yup, I felt pretty domestic last night. I even did some sewing for my Halloween costume. There are still more modifications to be made, but I was a mini-Martha yesterday for sure.
JR's pumpkin turned out great.
Both of our pumpkins reflect our personalties perfectly.
posted by SassyJill at 5:54 PM
4 Comments:
So, I don't remember ever carving a pumpkin either. Did Dad always do it for us? I think I wasn't allowed to be around sharp knives due to my extreme clumsiness. So, you did a Mickey pumpkin? Did I make you nostalgic or something? You know, it is funny, but you always liked Disney way more than me. How did we end up where we are today? Anyway, I'm glad to see you're in the Halloween spirit =)
I know I had a party and we painted pumpkins one year. But you know dad, I'm sure he wanted everything perfect and just took over with the carving.
No really the Mickey thing was totally last second. The whole time I was gutting my pumpkin I couldn't think of anything to carve on it.
Then it just popped in my head.. maybe it was you... dunno. And hey, my costume is Disney inspired too.
Wait, what's your costume?
Cool pumpkins. You know, without the candle, Mickey's ears look like eyes and the face is a pig snout. That's pretty cool (macabre, yaaaah!)
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