I have returned to the Evergreen, kind of and only temporarily. I started last week helping at the News desk. This week I filled in as copy editor two nights and News editor on Thursday. I am amazed at how quickly and easily it is to get sucked back in.
Other than dropping in to meet Rikki before going to a class we both have, I’ve pretty much stayed away from the newsroom. I thought it would seem mocking to hang out there without having any work related to the paper to do. But it still seems so natural to be back in the newsroom, even with my previous absence.
A lot of the faces are different, and Dom and Rikki did do a pretty good job of cleaning the newsroom out. I was happy to discover a few of my things left though. One the quotes I chose is still hanging by the news desk. Also, a sticky note is still on a news desk drawer warning people not to throw away anything inside the drawer. I put it there the summer before I became news editor because I didn’t trust the summer news editor with my documents.
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October 23, 2009 at 3:56 pm
Ha! I never knew that note was yours.