Journo Road Trip!

Awesome!

K-Proud and I spent a total of 5 hours in the car yesterday traveling through scenic northern Missouri. Some of the sights were a man selling Bonsai trees out of a van, a peculiar way to transport farmers, the home of sliced bread, and maybe the awesomely-named "No Creek" Creek.

Our mission: travel to the city of Trenton, MO for an experiment with a video format for MNH. We were asked to chronicle what a small town's political interests were.

While I heard pretty much what I expected about the political needs of a small town, there's one thing as a journalist in Mid-Mo that I'm not used to hearing, and that's thanks. These people were so grateful that Kelsey and I would take time out of our "busy schedules" to come and try to make their needs public that the Mayor simply could not stop thanking us.

Maybe it's because I come from two incredibly media-saturated towns, but I'm not used to people thanking me for my services. It's my job. I do it because I love it. And, it's nice to see that some people in the world are still glad to have us visit.

Does a girl's heart good to actually hear what I'm doing could make a difference...because frankly, people around these parts sometimes forget that.

So did I mention...

...the website is up! And running! And fully functional!

Which means job applications start going out...tomorrow.

So HIRE ME! Thanks.

Oh...and something to brighten your day...Chad Mira put this on his twitter and I thought it was hillarious. It's what News Anchors do during commercial breaks.

Enjoy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7ehlw_phys

Food for thought...

Random musing courtesy Kent Collins...

Does a building burn up? Or does a building burn down?

Or can it do both?

Ha...this will cause me to lose sleep.

Dial 1-800-HTML-HELP

I am so fed-up with getting my website ready that I could just cry. It seems like the second I get one thing going and working, the entire format just falls apart. I've got the website built...now I'm adding content. I'm attempting to add 7 photos and their captions to my "Other Work" page. I've styled the photos so they show up all aligned to the right side of my content container. But, when I preview them, they look scattered everywhere. And when I go back to add the caption into the page...it really does scatter everywhere in dreamweaver.

It's been like this the entire time I've been building this website and I'm one more meltdown away from going to wordpress. I realize that HTML coding is something I need to have a basic understanding of for what I want to do for my job. And It's important to know a software like Dreamweaver. And I thought having a website to showcase that I know all of that instead of using a template-based service would be the thing to do. But I'm getting grey hairs here...really...no jokes. I invite you to come look at my scalp. If the KOMU HDTV signal doesn't show them, feel free to ask.

The most frustrating thing of it all...I can't start applying for jobs until it's ready. And frankly, I need to get on that. Quickly. I looked at the calendar today and realized I graduate in less than a month, and my website isn't even ready. Granted, my resume is on it. Just, none of my work is either formatted correctly or visible.

I know that once I get this done I will be immensely proud of it. It's been a very long, very hard journey, and I'm so close I can smell it. But right now it's really discouraging that I can see the finish line and not get there.

Speaking of seeing the finish line and not being able to get there...

Fell down the stairs last night and fractured my ankle. So I'm in a boot. I can't wait to head back to the Capitol for MNH in my ortho-boot. Oh, and MNH, speaking of seeing the finish line and not being able to get there...

Now you see why I'm going grey?