Little Work Accomplished
January 1, 2008
Date: First day of the new year in the socially accepted calendar
Temperature: 20 degrees (F)
Provisions: Still finishing Christmas leftovers
Objectives: Journalists, even the alien variety, rarely get a holiday off.
Accomplishments: Futbol Americano
What a peculiar day. The previous night I didn’t participate in the revelry of the completion of a revolution around your sun. $100 for the right to eat at a hotel’s buffet? $75 to drink endlessly at the four bars on Martini Corner? What a racket! No thanks. This morning I thought I heard fireworks. In reality, I heard gunshots from what the local constables call a “domestic dispute.” Officers blocked the street I required to travel to the elevated highway.
My station airs the Sugar Bowl tonight. I have a meager two-minute halftime newscast to produce. I don’t mind the cold weather, as I am accustomed to the cold emptiness of outer space. When I travel to Miami in two days for the Orange Bowl (my human host is a Kansas alum), the normally subtropical climate will drop to a more manageable marine temperate.
