It's official...starting in May, I will be a Producer for the Biography Channel. I'm so excited and thankful for this opportunity! God is so good!
I have to wait a few weeks for someone to be hired in my current position and then I have to train them for a week. So, I'm looking at the first week of May to move over to the post-production department. My new job sounds more glamorous than it really is (as most things in life are). I will have a lot of paperwork to do. I will be in the editing studio once or twice a week for 8 hours at a time adding Biography Channel elements to programs, making sure they meet FCC standards, and have no audio or video errors. Most of my editing sessions will be during the day (8:30-4:30) but about once a month I'll have to do a night edit (5pm-1am). No, you won't see my name on the credits at the end of the show. That'll happen with my next job! When I'm in an editing session, A&E Networks buys my lunch. Nice perk! Plus, I have a little bit of flexibility in my hours.
Doug, my new boss, said that they decided to give me the job because they liked my initiative. I've never thought of myself as having initiative and for me to approach him in the first place is not something I usually do. So, it's really paid off for me to put myself out on a limb this time. Doug also mentioned that early in his career, people took a chance on him and gave him opportunities and he wanted to pay me the same consideration.
Ironically, an hour after I was offered the position, I received a phone call from ABC asking me to come in for an interview to work on "All My Children". I told them they were an hour late!
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Thursday, April 03, 2008
Opening Day Report
Yankees Opening Day was scheduled for Monday, March 31. I had been watching the forecast for about a week leading up to the game. It kept saying it would rain on Monday but all the meteorologists "guaranteed" that it would not rain out the Yankees game. What do they know? (Sorry, Carlos) Well, Monday came and it was drizzly all day, like a heavy fog. We got to the stadium and they announced that the game would be delayed an hour. So, we hung around eating hot dogs and talking to other fans. An hour passed and another announcement that they were "evaluating their options." What options do you have? You either play the game or you don't. Fan were getting restless, chanting "Let them play!" and yelling at Joe Girardi that if Torre were here, they'd be playing. (If you're not a baseball fan, those names probably hold no meaning for you. If you know baseball, you laughed just now.) Well, they decided to postpone the game until Tuesday at 7:05 because the weather forecast called for deteriorating conditions. Fans groaned and clapped at the same time. And everyone headed out. The weather never deteriorated...
So, now Tuesday, April 1st is Opening Day. Good thing I bought a hat that says "Final Opening Day in Yankee Stadium--March 31, 2008" Guess it's a collector's item now! We missed the train we had intended to take so we decided to drive to the stadium. I live only about 20 minutes by car and 30-40 minutes by train from Yankee Stadium. The train is just easier to take because parking is a headache and there's construction all around the stadium. So, we drove in, found a parking spot (barely), and got to the stadium. Then we stood in line for 20 minutes and missed the first pitch. :( I was very disappointed but there's nothing I could do about it. The line was just so slow and they had only 4 people checking in a crowd of people. Poor planning on the Yankees part. I got to my seat in time to see the Yankees come up for their first at-bats. It was a great game. The atmosphere felt like a play off game. And the Yankees won!
Time to head home. We hopped in the car and were just about to get on the Major Deegan Expressway when a box truck made a wide right turn...right into us! Awww, man! We look up and there's a bunch of police cars heading our direction. "Oh good," I thought, "they saw the accident and are coming to help us." I yell at some people on the street to stop the guy who hit us. Thankfully no one seemed to be hurt. But the cops were yelling at us to move. We explain that we were just hit. They tell us there's a "more important" scene and point to the on ramp. There are about 8 police cars on the on ramp. We ask if they could spare one police officer for us. The cop yells at me that someone is dying! So, I get on my cell phone and call 9-1-1. I explain what happened and that I know there's a more imporant accident but we just need one officer to take a report. No, nobody's hurt but we're sort of blocking the intersection and now it's pouring and it's not safe to be out here. The dispatcher tells me that someone is on the way. After 45 minutes of waiting in the pouring rain and exchanging information with the other driver, still no police officer to help us! Many cops passed us to go to the other accident scene--none stopped to ask if we were OK. In all the time we were there, only one woman stopped to ask if I was OK and if she could call a cab for me. How nice! I told her that I was waiting for the police...for more than a half hour. She rolled her eyes and said "It figures. Don't count on anyone to show up." Well, we gave up waiting. Got all the info we could get from the other guy and left.
I'm very dissatisfied with the Bronx Police Department. I realize the other accident scene was more dire than ours. However, I am not convinced that every cop in the Bronx needed to be there. At one point, there were probably 20 or more emergency vehicles on that scene. Thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt. My back was hurting before the accident and now it's hurting worse. Other than that, I feel fine. If the truck had hit us a second earlier, it would have hit the front door of the car and probably would have really injured us. Basically, the whole experience of Opening Day that I've been so excited about and anticipating for awhile now, has been overshadowed by disappointments. The more I think about it, the more I'm reminded of Matthew 6:19-20. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal." While these verses allude to material treasures, I think it can apply to experiences too. Our experiences here on earth can be destroyed, or at the very least disappointing, becuase of other influences.
Here's a link to the news story about the other accident(http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/1928695.php?contentType=4&contentId=1817308)
I'll post some pictures from the game days soon.
**I know you're probably wondering...no, I haven't heard about the Producer position. I asked Doug if he had anything he wanted to talk about with me today. He simply said, "No, not today..." I'll keep you posted.**
So, now Tuesday, April 1st is Opening Day. Good thing I bought a hat that says "Final Opening Day in Yankee Stadium--March 31, 2008" Guess it's a collector's item now! We missed the train we had intended to take so we decided to drive to the stadium. I live only about 20 minutes by car and 30-40 minutes by train from Yankee Stadium. The train is just easier to take because parking is a headache and there's construction all around the stadium. So, we drove in, found a parking spot (barely), and got to the stadium. Then we stood in line for 20 minutes and missed the first pitch. :( I was very disappointed but there's nothing I could do about it. The line was just so slow and they had only 4 people checking in a crowd of people. Poor planning on the Yankees part. I got to my seat in time to see the Yankees come up for their first at-bats. It was a great game. The atmosphere felt like a play off game. And the Yankees won!
Time to head home. We hopped in the car and were just about to get on the Major Deegan Expressway when a box truck made a wide right turn...right into us! Awww, man! We look up and there's a bunch of police cars heading our direction. "Oh good," I thought, "they saw the accident and are coming to help us." I yell at some people on the street to stop the guy who hit us. Thankfully no one seemed to be hurt. But the cops were yelling at us to move. We explain that we were just hit. They tell us there's a "more important" scene and point to the on ramp. There are about 8 police cars on the on ramp. We ask if they could spare one police officer for us. The cop yells at me that someone is dying! So, I get on my cell phone and call 9-1-1. I explain what happened and that I know there's a more imporant accident but we just need one officer to take a report. No, nobody's hurt but we're sort of blocking the intersection and now it's pouring and it's not safe to be out here. The dispatcher tells me that someone is on the way. After 45 minutes of waiting in the pouring rain and exchanging information with the other driver, still no police officer to help us! Many cops passed us to go to the other accident scene--none stopped to ask if we were OK. In all the time we were there, only one woman stopped to ask if I was OK and if she could call a cab for me. How nice! I told her that I was waiting for the police...for more than a half hour. She rolled her eyes and said "It figures. Don't count on anyone to show up." Well, we gave up waiting. Got all the info we could get from the other guy and left.
I'm very dissatisfied with the Bronx Police Department. I realize the other accident scene was more dire than ours. However, I am not convinced that every cop in the Bronx needed to be there. At one point, there were probably 20 or more emergency vehicles on that scene. Thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt. My back was hurting before the accident and now it's hurting worse. Other than that, I feel fine. If the truck had hit us a second earlier, it would have hit the front door of the car and probably would have really injured us. Basically, the whole experience of Opening Day that I've been so excited about and anticipating for awhile now, has been overshadowed by disappointments. The more I think about it, the more I'm reminded of Matthew 6:19-20. "Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal." While these verses allude to material treasures, I think it can apply to experiences too. Our experiences here on earth can be destroyed, or at the very least disappointing, becuase of other influences.
Here's a link to the news story about the other accident(http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/1928695.php?contentType=4&contentId=1817308)
I'll post some pictures from the game days soon.
**I know you're probably wondering...no, I haven't heard about the Producer position. I asked Doug if he had anything he wanted to talk about with me today. He simply said, "No, not today..." I'll keep you posted.**
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