Wednesday, October 05, 2005
When Do We Start???
Yesterday I went on a tour of the Rocky Mountain News facilities 100 Gene Amole way. (I actually saw ATF pretending to work in his cube, or desk I should say, while he stared starry eyes clan descent at the jock of a backward hat wearing dude near him.) Our tour guide was your stereotypical retiree of the News who wants to get out and feel important so he gets to show journalist hopefuls the facilities in which he as amassed such great history. As we went into the news room floor the first thing one sees are piles of desks. O.K. the desks aren’t literally piled on each other but with the barge of stuff your typical journalist keeps on his or her desk…my God it’s incredible. We then continued to walk by some famous cartoonist’s office…I don’t even remember his name. Then we got to the Sport section of the room our tour guide Pete Gray told us we have a Hugh sports staff writer section, which is larger than most papers, because we live in such a wonderful and blessed sports town. I hate to call Colorado a redneck town...but its of no surprise our papers endorsed BUSH. Anyway Pete said at 6pm that’s when things start getting busy in there. I of course had to come up with some dry wit saying, “So let me get this strait. You’re saying to be a journalist I have to have a messy desk and work nights...sounds like my kind of job.” To which Pete’s reply was to avoid the joke and change the subject. I liked, of course, my ending of the very extravagant tour…Pete asks, “Is there any questions.” and I my improvised answer was, “When do we start.” Only my damn professor laughed the people in my class are a little anal. At least my teacher had a sense of humor...now only if she had some mercy, she works us to the bone in that class.
Yesterday I went on a tour of the Rocky Mountain News facilities 100 Gene Amole way. (I actually saw ATF pretending to work in his cube, or desk I should say, while he stared starry eyes clan descent at the jock of a backward hat wearing dude near him.) Our tour guide was your stereotypical retiree of the News who wants to get out and feel important so he gets to show journalist hopefuls the facilities in which he as amassed such great history. As we went into the news room floor the first thing one sees are piles of desks. O.K. the desks aren’t literally piled on each other but with the barge of stuff your typical journalist keeps on his or her desk…my God it’s incredible. We then continued to walk by some famous cartoonist’s office…I don’t even remember his name. Then we got to the Sport section of the room our tour guide Pete Gray told us we have a Hugh sports staff writer section, which is larger than most papers, because we live in such a wonderful and blessed sports town. I hate to call Colorado a redneck town...but its of no surprise our papers endorsed BUSH. Anyway Pete said at 6pm that’s when things start getting busy in there. I of course had to come up with some dry wit saying, “So let me get this strait. You’re saying to be a journalist I have to have a messy desk and work nights...sounds like my kind of job.” To which Pete’s reply was to avoid the joke and change the subject. I liked, of course, my ending of the very extravagant tour…Pete asks, “Is there any questions.” and I my improvised answer was, “When do we start.” Only my damn professor laughed the people in my class are a little anal. At least my teacher had a sense of humor...now only if she had some mercy, she works us to the bone in that class.
# posted by Nick D @ 9:23 PM 
