I get sick once a year... always around the end of January, early February. Freshman year I got the flu, last year minor flu stopped by a very early dose of Tamiflu. Junior year? I just got confirmation of a sinus infection.
Now, I am not one of those people who are going to let a little illness get them down. I hate missing work and feeling unreliable. I hate missing school and falling behind. Overall, I just power through whatever I've got because it just makes sense to me. It's the classic control freak in me.
I made it to three of my four KOMU shifts this week. Unfortunately, the one that probably matters the most (no offense Jen!) -- my reporting shift for B3.
Let me just say... producing, doing my web shift (or for that day teaching recuts) and writing cutins are not fun when sick. In fact I don't recommend it at all. There is such a thing as taking rest when you are under the weather.
Because there is no nightside reporter on Monday nights, there wasn't a whole lot for me to do when I got to the station for my web shift (and Nick had it under control), I got the task of teaching recuts delegated to me. I actually enjoyed this role a lot for this reason: I truly got to explain the concept of iNews, NewCutter, NRCS, NewsChannel, Pathfire, among countless other things to the new PA's.
Now I've trained people on recuts more times than I can count, and you can tell the difference between the people who learn it and the people who memorize it. The people who learn it then understand the difference between what everything is and can process it a whole lot easier. Plus, the things they learn they connect with reporting later on. And as nerdy as this sounds, I liked being able to help them learn it.
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