Okay, for my Daily Universe/News Reporting class, I'm on the Sports Desk covering the Baseball beat. That was my first choice, so I really can't complain. It's been sort of nice in that I really don't have to go out looking for stories. I just do previews and recaps of all the games.

Probly the most frustrating thing for me is the fact that, in seven weeks, we're sposed to write 15 stories.   In about two and a half weeks, I've written twelve. And that's a little bit ridiculous. The past two Wednesdays have been all but Hades for me, and I've had three stories due both days. All the other reporters are totally struggling to even get to two stories a week. NOT FAIR.

But it's been kind of a running joke on our desk that I pick up everyone else's slack. The other sports editors have maybe eight or ten stories done when I'm at twelve. But like at our desk meeting today, someone jokingly said, "Oh, Haley, there's a press conference in like ten minutes, can you cover it?" Because I do that kind of stuff. People rely on me and I get crap done.

Like the Jimmer Fredette story I wrote on Monday. My editor sent out a text at like 10:30 a.m. asking if anyone could cover his press conference at 12:15 p.m. Granted, it was a super cool experience and I don't regret it at all. But once I got back from the conference at like 12:45 p.m., I wrote the story immediately, had it finished and edited by like 2:00 p.m., and it was online by 2:30 p.m. Ri.Di.Cu.Lous. I just do so much more than the other reporters.