When I read our assignment for the week, I was at home, about 140 miles from UNH. As we all know there are lots of things going on here over the weekend that have the potential to be turned into some multimedia story. Knowing that I wouldn't be back to campus until Sunday afternoon, and then having to work until 10pm, I found myself in a little mini-panic about what I was going to do for a story. Sunday night I was flipping through TNH while I waited for a ride home from work. I didn't want to walk back to my apartment in the dark, much less in the pouring rain. So anyway (I tend to make my stories really long) I found a story in TNH about the construction of the new train station and that they were having their ribbon cutting ceremony on Tuesday morning, today. I thought that might be kind of cool, maybe a video of the train coming in, people getting on and off, speeches, and the best part: The big ribbon and a giant pair of scissors!!!! Did I get what I wanted?? NO!!!!!
Before I start talking about everything that was wrong, I will say that I got a few pictures of some nice looking people waiting for the train. Perhaps they were going home for Rosh Hashanah, but maybe not. Whatever. So I was going to photograph the train coming in. I missed it, as I had my back turned and my camera off. Good timing on my part, right? I did get a picture of it leaving... Ohhhhh goody. Fun..... As I was videoing President Huddleston's very nice speech, a rather large man stepped in front of me. Fantastic. I guess it's not really a big deal though, the whole thing was pretty boring.
So I didn't get my video of the train coming in, a clear video of President Huddleston's speech. Since things always come in threes (or if your me, fours, fives, or sixes...), did I get an actual ribbon cutting? No, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE A RIBBON AT THEIR RIBBON CUTTING! I suppose I have until noon tomorrow to find some way to salvage this...
On the plus side, I did learn that my camera has an undo-delete feature. Wicked awesome. And I got a free coffee.
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