During my freshman year at Eastern, Dr. Voelz used to say “The news doesn’t stop for the weekends” every day during his Journalism and Democracy class.
I don’t think I fully understood what he was saying until now.
I think I’ve found a pretty good balance between my social and work lives, but sometimes the balance doesn’t work the way I want it to.
This past weekend was probably the last time I could get to hang out with a bunch of people that are graduating. I could have been partying with them, but I had to work.
During my years at the DEN, I was able to cover weekend things and still make it out to party. Now that I’m an old man growing up, I don’t get to do it as often.
Maybe I could stop caring about my job so much. Maybe I could half-ass my way through work every day and then go home. I know people that do and don’t feel bad about it. I could have forgotten about the story I worked on this weekend and gone out to party, but I can’t do that. I’m a work-a-holic.
Sigh.
I don’t exactly know where this post is going.
Part of this should be about how much I’m going to miss the “newsie” crew that I’ve been around for the past few years, but I don’t like to talk about emotions.
I could also talk about what is happening at work, but the only people that would read that are in the corporate office, and they probably wouldn’t even care.
Maybe I could talk about all the birds I have seen over the past few days, but I’ve gathered that a lot of my friends don’t like birds or want to hear about them.
I do have one thing for anybody that’s made it this far.
MSNBC has a news quiz on their site that I love to check out. I think it’s pretty easy, but I deal with news almost 24 hours a day, so who knows.
Go check it out and then tell me what your score was!
