I think I'm going to add a new section to my blog. It's entitled "Late-night Thoughts from Assistant Editor Cari." (Its a working title.) Look for it every Tuesday.

Tonight's:
As Cari and I look at page 8's photo spread that I'm laying out:
C: That photo's a little too dominating, Laura. It's more of a dominatrix photo.

Still going...

I'm sitting in the Advocate office. Our server has crashed so we can't save: 1) edited stories, 2) photos, 3) pages, etc.
We have a hero named Jonathan who's here trying to figure it out. I hope he does and I'm sure that he will. It's going to be a long night, folks.

In other news...
The TP game went pretty well. The opposing team, Bacone College stole JBU's glory a bit because Bacone's fans decided that they were there to throw toilet paper, too. So they did. Right after their team's first field goal. The refs, thinking it was JBU fans, gave JBU the technical foul and not Bacone. Not cool, kids. None of you are cool. You go to a college named after a meat product.

The table I was sitting at was right behind Bacone fans. A loud mother of a player was sitting in front of me and kept me entertained throughout the game.
Some highlights included:
Her encourging the team to, "Take the shots like cougars, boys!"
And yelling "Don't mess with ma' boy, he's a farm boy!"

YIKES.

Roll out...

Tonight, tonight...the infamous and much-maligned* TP game. I'll be standing on the floor so I hope if I get decked it'll at least be something like Charmin and not some of J. Alvin's sandpaper. More updates much later.

*just by me

I think it's fabulous that toys from the '80s are making a comeback. Care Bears and Strawberry Shortcake. When will Rainbow Brite be making a re-appearance?

No one at TBN bothered to tell me this but Friends re-runs are no longer showing in the 4 p.m. timeslot. They've replaced it with Home Improvement. Since when do Al jokes trump "How YOU doin'?" I debated between watching "Fresh Prince" or "Dharma & Greg" but decided to make my downtime educational and watch Jeopardy. (P.S. Grady Lewis invented the basketball shoe, Emperor Hirohito stood on platform shoes for his 1928 coronation, and *gloriously* there was an entire catagory devoted to musical film.)


Today at my editorial meeting someone we'll call S. initiated the following conversation:

S: So, unless the basketball team goes to the semi-finals again this year, the game tomorrow is their biggest of the year. How do you feel about that?

Me:Well, I have a test to study for, a paper to write, a design project to start tonight. Tomorrow, in addition to all this, I have to somehow find a way to cover the game, shoot the game and still have time to design the pages before 12:30. How do I look to you?

S: Pretty much the same.


'Nuff said.