So this didn't post when i thought it did....

    I wrote this on sunday.... I apologize to my multitude of valued readers for not updating for a bit.  It's been a crazy week so if you feel like reading a not so short story... props.  This week, work-wise, was uneventful.  I booked travel for correspondents, wrote for the web, answered phones... got insulted during those phone calls.  Yah know.
    Wednesday, however, i got an interesting call.  I was the only person manning the desk and thus was getting all the calls, weirdos and all.  So when i answered a phone and heard a man say "Well fancy getting you on the first try," i assumed that it was a crazy who had called in earlier and almost hung up until he said, "it's Mike." Immediate excitement.  Mike is my professor from OU who got me this internship.  He's a war correspondent at ABC and most recently did a lot of work covering the Moore tornado. Currently, he's in the midst of coming out with a movie on his time in Afghanistan.  He told me he'd be at ABC soon and not to leave.
     Once he was at ABC he told me that he was having a premiere on the Intrepid and he would love for me to come.  Then he invited me to dinner with him and his son, who also works at ABC now. It was quite the fancy place where i met him and Carlos, but it was really fun to catch up with him and he loved hearing about every second of my internship.  He really is a blessing and it is wonderful to hear a man i look up to so much say, " i just want you to know I love you and i am so proud of you." I don't know how i got so blessed.

The whole next day i was looking forward to this premiere.  I caught a taxi at the end of my shift with some of my bosses on the assignment desk and met Hillary and Amy (two other OU students) in the theater on the ship.  Mike was speaking at the start and gave us a little shout out, saying his students were there.  The theater was filled with some very important people in the news business so that was very cool.  The movie was amazing! I sobbed.  It's a story in honor of those lost in the war as well as a father son journey with Mike and Carlos. There were lots of families of those lost in the infantry Mike covered in the audience, which made  it all the more touching.

     After the movie there was a mixer, where Mike introduced me to some executives at CBS.  I got their cards and they told me they would love to help a student of Mike's especially with the passion i was showing.  Seriously, so cool! That night was amazing, it was on this huge ship with a wonderful view on the deck, i met executives, and i got to watch my favorite professor in an amazing movie!

      I was thinking this would be the last time i saw him before school started but he came and visited me at work the next day after he had lunch with the assignment editor for international news.  He took me around the office and introduced me to a lot of really cool people like the chief investigative producer and the man in charge of all the affiliates.  I also got to sit in a meeting about his movie.  It's a huge deal.  It's already raised a ton of money and is set to release in all theaters in November.  The premiere will be in Dallas after a benefit country concert with stars like Carrie Underwood.  I got to introduce Mike to some of the friends i've made in New York as well.  He made this week very exciting and his confidence in me really means the world.
    Yesterday, i had brunch with the Desk Assistants (DAs) from work.  DAs typically are the interns from the previous summer that have been hired to do what I'm doing in my internship but then work their way up to where they want to be in the company with time.   It was really nice to sit down and just poke fun with each other.  We're all very close in age (21-24) and listening to how each of us got to where we are was awesome! Although, i wouldn't exactly call what we had brunch... more like eating breakfast food at 1pm.  While at brunch i got a text from Christian asking if i could help show his friends around ABC.  So, once i was done with brunch, i headed to ABC and gave a tour.  I ran into Gio Benitez (correspondent) while giving the tour and introduced Christian and his friends to him.  If you want to know the story of how i met Gio ask my Dad ;) haha.
     It was a pretty full day after that.  We wandered Central Park for a bit then headed to Brooklyn to go to some street fairs and grab a slice of pizza.  Favorite thing at the street fairs?? obviously the antique cameras.

 

      The guys had a plan to go to the number one rooftop bar that night but it was fancy so we had to go home and shower and change quickly to get there before it got too crowded.  Let's be real: it really was just a photo op more than a desire to "party" or whatever so we had no interest in being there when lots of people were around.  So i hopped on my train after getting some help finding which one to get on.  There was a young hispanic girl who wanted to share her life story  with me on the subway for an hour soooo that made the trip not so enjoyable. Plus it was really crowded.
      I got home and got speed ready.  Threw on a dress, brushed my hair and brought makeup with me to put on in the cab and headed to meet the guys at the NYU dorms.  The bar/hotel is over by the intrepid ship so we took the subway over there and got there by 8:30ish.  The view was incredible!

Seriously, i can see why its ranked the number one rooftop bar in the city.  You can see the whole thing lit up! We spent an hour or two there then wandered the city for a bit then i went home. 

It was a pretty good week overall.