Well, it is reading week, and I back home in good ol’ T.O. It is nice to be home!

Let’s discuss Friday, but not just any Friday. That’s right, it was Friday the 13th … Ooooo!!!!

It was the last day of radio and the last newscast, and I had spent the few days prior doing research and interviewing people for my assignment, which I completed ON TIME!

Then, during the newsday, I had to trim it down from a 90 second voicer (where you would hear my voice on-air) to a 40 second script and clip (not my voice).

However, I did it, despite my voicer’s awesomeness. Then I was told to run around campus, LITERALLY, to find information regarding a story.

I walked around campus in circles, for about 2 hours, and found nothing. Then, I ran back to the studio, edited my clips AND wrote my story in record time. Only for it to get slimmed down … again.

Then, after the noon newscast, I was told to run around campus YET AGAIN and find student reactions ASAP. I couldn’t even have lunch!!!!

So, I ran around and interviewed students for another 2.5 hours, ran back to the studio, wrote my script and edited my clips (with the help of my audio editor).

At 3 p.m., I was finally allowed to have lunch, which consisted of a solitary muffin.

I then got to read the news with a friend of mine, which was fun.

We did a great job 🙂

And, ready for the worst part of that day??

My recorder, the single most important tool in the journalists tool kit BROKE.
The tiny little LCD screen broke, because it was in my pocket and I accidentally hit a table.

And then my microphone stopped working!

Both the recorder and my microphone are VITALLY IMPORTANT for radio!!!!!

Luckily, I was able to borrow other people’s equipment, but it was very annoying.

And now, I have to purchase a new recorder (as the warranty doesn’t cover my accidentally banging it into the corner of a table) and possibly a new microphone (as I forgot the receipt back in Ottawa, and I don’t know if the warranty covers acts of god).

And after all that, my initial story which I worked on for days before, never even got to air.

I don’t believe in superstitions or anything like that, but let’s just leave it with that it was not a good day.