Work

Sorry about the nopost mania I've been through lately. I've been working a lot these past few days. Wait. Scratch that. I've been working more in these past few days. The problem is that I tend to blog at night. And my job, sports writing, usually happens at night because, well, that's when sports usually happen. Which means that on nights that I work, I often don't feel like blogging.

In the past week or so, the other new sports writer has been unavailable/unreachable, so I've been able to poach his hours for myself. On Thursday night I went to the game that the other guy was supposed to cover, and I was talking with my boss, who was at the game to take a few pictures. He told me that he was trying to get me more hours. Which is kind of really very awesome. He said that he really couldn't do much with me and the other guy when our hours are so limited, but that it was also difficult to get money that wasn't budgeted for the fiscal year. But he's working on it.

With this extra time working over the past few days, I've been getting a lot more ink, and that feels good. On Friday I had three articles, including two on the cover of sports. Today I had a story that was on the top left of sports. Small victories, man. Small victories.

I've also gotten a chance to get to know my boss a lot better. I'm starting to like him quite a bit. And he's a much better editor than I gave him credit for. He never piles on editorial suggestions. He tends to focus on one thing, and then tempers those suggestions/criticisms with complements. I've also recently recognized that, even though I often don't care for some of the changes he makes to the pieces I've written, his reasoning for making the changes is always solid.

I'm grateful for liking my job and for the possibility of more hours (20).