Holding Pattern

Nothing much happening on the news front at the public radio station. My first spec story on a Hawaiian quilt exhibit hasn't run yet (and I don't know if it will considering the exhibit ends on the 18th of this month), and after explaining my predicament to the news director, she understood my problem and asked me what I wanted to do about it. I told her I guessed there was still a story, but nothing as interesting as one with some actual ambient sound from the last lunchtime concert in question. On top of that, the contact who first informed the station of the story still hasn't returned my calls. In any case, I told the news director I was still holding out for some word from another job opportunity (another news organization, this time in television) and that doing a news story once a week for public radio might not be worth the time and effort.