For the first time since I started at the newspaper, the paper was completed early. Only 30 minutes early, but early nevertheless. Our norm is to get it out 30 minutes late so we're and hour ahead of schedule. The entire day was actually fairly easy. The cause? Our lead news reporter get on the boss' case to make page 1 decisions on Monday before, it had been laid out rather than on Tuesday after it had been laid out. I've been trying to get this to happen, but every week since I started I've had to rework the front page on Tuesday morning. Today I didn't have to do any reworking. Everything just nicely built on the work I did the last week.
Getting the paper out early means getting to leave early. I don't really know what to do with myself for the rest of the afternoon though I'm sure I'll manage just fine.
| November 16, 2004 01:37pm | 
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because there’s nothing that amuses me more than hearing your pathetic opinion
i'd say, "take out an add commemorating the event", but that would've made the paper late
joat | November 16, 2004 10:35PM
That's great. Very much inline with the mentality at the paper: 'We're ahead of the game today, we need to totally find some way to throw a wrench in the works. Yeah. Then things will be as they should be.'
nomad | November 17, 2004 9:56AM