I get to spend the entire week away from home in the great town of Watsonville. I'm working at the Register-Pajaronian, filling in for the sports editor, who is on vacation with his wife, who also works at the paper.
It's fun and interesting. When I worked at the Atascadero News, we all basically worked 8-5, M-F. The paper was put to bed by 5 p.m. and we went home. But it's a twice weekly and Watsonville is a daily (M-Sa), so the deadline is about midnight or so.
It was interesting working on sports, especially on a daily. I spent last night taking calls from coaches calling in the results from their games yesterday, keeping an eye on the AP wire for news on the major league games going on for baseball, basketball and hockey.
I finally went to my hotel at 1 a.m. I never stay up that late anymore, so I was a bit of a zombie by 11 p.m.
I get to do that same thing the next four nights and I was told that last night was light.
I'll post of photos of the paper, newsroom and such. As well as Watsonville and Santa Cruz (that's where I'm at now).
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