Burning the midnight oil

I'm writing/posting this while doing the second of two overnight shifts filling in for a vacationing co-worker.

Along with doing three overnight shifts at public radio (my usual Friday overnight at the end of the week and the aforementioned two extra Monday and Tuesday shifts), I have an interview in the news department at one of the local tv stations in town later today. Actually, it'll be my second interview with them, so hopefully they'll have something for me this time around.

Speaking of news, I'm still at work on my public radio news piece. I had gathered three on-mic interviews last week, and I'm about 1/3 done listening to my raw tape. I haven't done this kind of thing (that is, news reporting/writing) in about eight years when I was a news intern here at Hawaii Public Radio, and I'm having a little trouble getting the "through line" or the "hook" of telling this story, one concerning a museum exhibit. I don't know, maybe I'm thinking way too hard on this piece. Oh well. I've got some time until the end of the shift to continue working on it some more.

And then I have a friend coming in from out of town on Wednesday. He'll be in for about a week for some vacation time, so there's more fun in store...