Housewife Desperation

March 17, 2012 photog blogs

(sigh) The search for the perfect mobile blogging platform continues. I was using the Blogsy app on my iPad, but they did something and totally “effed” it up.

You probably didn’t come all the internet way to my blog to hear me complain about little things (hey, it’s important to me) and you would really just like to know if I did anything cool this week.

Cool? No. Exciting? Also, no.

Interesting?

Well, maybe not, but at least I was trying. I’m on a bit of a dry spell as far as covering interesting stories. Maybe I’m just getting old, but my adventurous attitude towards my job has been fairly low key lately.

Could be I’m just suffering from the boredom of general assignment work. It’s been a while since I did anything that I felt was worth lugging the still camera around with me.

It almost felt cool that I did find myself at the Los Angeles Superior Courthouse for the Nicollette Sheridan lawsuit.

In a nutshell, she’s suing her bosses (ABC Network) for wrongful termination. There’s more to it, but I figure you’re reading this, you can probably “google” for accurate information.

Covering a case like this is kind of routine. There’s one exciting part of it.

It’s not the press conference outside of the courthouse. No, that’s pretty boring.

It’s what happens after the press conference.

I haven’t covered this story much, so there was one part still interesting to me. I’ve been told this is the every day routine. After the presser, Nicollette and her legal team always walk over to a waiting SUV.

All the camera folk follow along. We’ll need that video to cover the reporter’s tracks in the packages we’re putting together.

It’s a little bit of an adrenaline rush, but sometimes you need that.

Okay, me, I need that.

Is it awkward to walk backwards carrying a heavy video camera in front of a famous actress who is trying ignore the mob of cameras surrounding her as she walks fifteen yards to her car?

Sure, but at least they pay me to be there.