Because I have nothing else better to do...

Today has been an utterly worthless day in the pit. We did all of the clips from the weekend and today this morning. I've been sending out internet clips all day, but otherwise I've been refreshing the Drudge Report and Perez Hilton's blog, checking out twitter, and staring into the collage of basketball photos on the backsplash of my desk. Oh, we did finish making the labeled magnets of players' names, positions, and universities for the draft. However, our supervisor isn't here today and neither is the rest of the department really, so nothing has been going on. I know for a fact there are going to be more things for us to do, but right now this shtuff is dull! There isn't even any fanmail or anything to respond to. I find myself googling 'knicks' every five seconds in hopes of finding something new to send out to keep me occupied. Oh, I forgot to note on here that I woke up at 7:00 am yesterday to do the Sunday clips. It was moderately tragic. Actually, it was in the grey area between black failure and white success. I got a lot of clips out, but the formatting was probably messed up because I was doing it from the webmail accesspoint. I was very thorough and checked to make sure I had everything on Factiva, but there weren't any newsstands open on my block so I wasn't able to check the hard copies... this led to me having to admit to one of my supervisors that I hadn't been using the newspaper and that I couldn't write the photo description for an article in the NY Post. Whoops. Then, of course, because I'm an idiot, I sent the e-clips compilation file to the distribution list through the regular field instead of BCC. And I also forgot to add the rumble and Mike Lupica's articles (even though it was written in my intern guide which I thought I had read closely). You live you learn though. I know next time I will be more on top of these things because of how guilty I felt for getting them wrong. My supervisors were in no way mad about it and even commended me for what I had done right. It was my first time doing it all by myself so I guess there was room for mistakes. I wish I had more to write about to occupy me from now (4:08 pm) to 5 pm, but I'm afraid that's about it. Unless you want another little rant on my opinion on nuclear proliferation... I don't think you do though.