A Day at the Office
A day at work
Log onto computer, delete 20 junk mail messages, answer 10
Answer two phone messages
Go into studio and turn on equipment. Spend next two hours editing and mixing two podcast shows. Take a break and heat up water for some Tiger Chai tea. See Liv parked outside while I’m smoking my pipe. I talk to her about having a workshop to show women how to make 1890s costumes for our 1890s Weeekend (www.1890s Weekend.com)
Talk to my news director about the stories he’s working on.
Go back and finish shows. Upload the first. Back to office to answer latest emails. Drive up to Butler and pick up Ken Sarch, music professor, for lunch. We eat at the Black Swan, a small place that’s dumpy in a comfortable, homey way and talk about his Ben Franklin project and then discuss methods of recording different types of music to different poems for varying effects.
The Black Swan, by the way, was the planned drop-off point for money demanded by the kidnappers of the Lindbergh baby, a huge story in the early 20th century.
Back to the office to work on a new podcast. Bruce Dart, president of the chamber comes in and we talk about the upcoming 150th anniversary of the university and the town. Interrupted by a phone call.
Eden comes in. We go into the studio and I give her more lessons on how to edit and mix. She learns fast. She leaves to get the new logo for the 150th from the print shop, returns and leaves for class.
Talk with my designer about the issue of The Mansfieldian that we’re working on and a problem with the undergraduate catalog cover.
Back into the studio and work until 4:30
Into the car for the 45 minute drive home while I listen to Terry Gross on Fresh Air, and some of the news.