Occasionally, I'll get emails about how fun my job looks and all that. It is fun, but I'm not out on fantastic house explosions and train derailments every day - even though it is sweeps.

Nope.

Some days you don't get the juicy stuff. You get: city council.



Today was a city council day. It's actually not that bad, but inevitably the item that we came to the meeting for is at the very end of the agenda. This was my first Greenville City Council meeting since moving here, and it's pretty much like every other million city councils I've ever covered (except for the opening prayer).

I'll admit: it's pretty boring - especially since I don't really know all that much about zoning ordinances and stuff like that. And, since most news rooms (mine included) have a rule about "not showing too much meeting video" I end up just sitting around for a while (not shooting video).



Today I decided to turn all the items on the agenda into 'thrilling' haiku poems.

Some examples:

Address the council?
Please approach the podium.
Be brief, speak clearly.

or...

There's no new business?
You gotta be kidding me!
Bring something next week.

and...

This is so boring.
I think I'm gonna die.
I hope this ends soon.

I guess I did end up having fun after all. And, the day wasn't completely event-free. Later I went out to an accident where a guy decided to nap on some railroad tracks, and woke up to a giant steel alarm clock coming at him. He must've known we were in ratings.