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[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I like slow news days...

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[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I find them refreshing myself.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

There's just something to be said for a day when I'm not being shipped around the country, or on the phone with a half-dozen people....you know?

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Are you a reporter?

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm a sports anchor.

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Sounds like interesting work. So, you do one of the national sports shows?

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

I co-anchor the nightly one here in Los Angeles. But we still do a lot of our own fieldwork, which I generally love...until the jet lag catches up.

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

I'm sure when one of your teams plays Boston, the jet lag would be tough.

I live in western Massachusetts so our sports news is split between Boston and New York.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. I had to go to Pittsburgh for the Stanley Cup parade, and then come back...to sit through hours and hours of useless coverage of the Lakers victory parade. It was hideous.

I'm Scott, by the way.

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Not a Lakers fan, I take it?

Hi Scott. I'm Terry.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

I'm more of a hockey guy, but - it was ridiculous. They were doing hours of coverage just before the parade, let alone constant live coverage of the parade. I don't need eight hours of bus coverage, I just don't.

Nice to meet you, Terry. So what do you do?

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

*laughs* No, it's really not all that interesting to watch people board a bus.

I'm a poetry professor at Smith College.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I mean...it was on every channel. It was on CNN. Really, there was nothing better to talk about?

Oh? That's cool. I'm such a huge nerd.

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

I guess not. Slow news day?

Do you have a preference for a certain poet or period of writing?

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Sometimes I find them refreshing myself.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

There's just something to be said for a day when I'm not being shipped around the country, or on the phone with a half-dozen people....you know?

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Are you a reporter?

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm a sports anchor.

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Sounds like interesting work. So, you do one of the national sports shows?

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

I co-anchor the nightly one here in Los Angeles. But we still do a lot of our own fieldwork, which I generally love...until the jet lag catches up.

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

I'm sure when one of your teams plays Boston, the jet lag would be tough.

I live in western Massachusetts so our sports news is split between Boston and New York.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. I had to go to Pittsburgh for the Stanley Cup parade, and then come back...to sit through hours and hours of useless coverage of the Lakers victory parade. It was hideous.

I'm Scott, by the way.

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

Not a Lakers fan, I take it?

Hi Scott. I'm Terry.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

I'm more of a hockey guy, but - it was ridiculous. They were doing hours of coverage just before the parade, let alone constant live coverage of the parade. I don't need eight hours of bus coverage, I just don't.

Nice to meet you, Terry. So what do you do?

[poetryprofessor.livejournal.com]

*laughs* No, it's really not all that interesting to watch people board a bus.

I'm a poetry professor at Smith College.

[mightyduckfan.livejournal.com]

Exactly! I mean...it was on every channel. It was on CNN. Really, there was nothing better to talk about?

Oh? That's cool. I'm such a huge nerd.