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On a Friday night, a bunch of college students chose to spend several hours in a new television studio:
On a Friday night, on homecoming weekend, they could have been anywhere. But there they were.
And, for a moment, I sat at the news desk:
Felt like old times, even if it was a simple microphone check.
Just another beautiful day on campus:
Took that picture from The Yankee’s office on the fourth floor. For a moment, I was as tall as a tree. Also, I was in my wife’s office, which is just a few feet from mine, and that’s nice.
I’ve shown you a bit of the television studio and control room that they’ve built in the new Media School building. I should also mention this fine little radio production booth:
It has windows on three sides, so it can be a fishbowl broadcast studio, and a podcast and production booth. There is an adjoining production booth on the other side of one of the windows. And still more of editing bays and production rooms being finished downstairs. This is one incredible facility IU has here. And they let me play with all the fancy toys in these rooms. It is a pretty charmed thing, really.
And tonight, we were back in the television studio. We do sports shows on Wednesday and Thursday. But on Tuesdays we do a news show and a pop culture, fashion, what’s happening kind of show. I’m sitting in a control room full of talented young people, and there’s plenty more talent in the studio next door:
Here’s that show now:
This weekend we visited with my folks down the road aways. The four of us went out one night for a lovely steak dinner and we all felt like celebrating:
Because if you get a steak that good — oh, so, so good — you should celebrate it.
Rode my bike to the office this morning. On my thus far preferred route I actually go through the woods and over the river creek.
And then I have a half mile of a walking path, with a picturesque barn set off to the side:
After that there’s a roundabout, and one long residential uphill to campus. It is about 4.5 miles. Takes about 15 minutes. Twenty if I’m carrying my bag and am trying not to sweat.
It isn’t a long enough trip, by any means, to make me think of steak again. But I’m thinking of steak again.
Right away you can tell this is a beautiful campus. I’ve seen my fair of attractive ones, but Indiana’s is one handsome place. It is hard to pick the best spot because there are many strong candidates. Today, however, this is my favorite spot on campus:
That’s a little stand of trees right next to our building, in Dunn Meadow. The picture itself is also presently the emergency backup version of the front page of my site.
If you’re on a real browser you’ll see a video. If you’re viewing it on your phone or pad, you’ll see the above picture as the background. What I like most about it is that I can change it easily and regularly. So, more visual, more video.
This evening, the work continues in my home office. This project will never get done. I have a good helper, though:
She might also be why the work goes slowly.
