Steph Stuff

I don’t know what is up with me, but yesterday, my second day at it, I was feeling completely overwhelmed. And I probably will today as well. I am struggling to find the right balance between all my old, regular responsibilities and the new ones.

Because of company policies, we’ve had to switch our story comments to the ‘moderate before going live’ mode, and we just happened to have a really contentious story the other day that is still pulling in comments despite having dropped off the front of the site. So keeping on top of those, as well as learning the World Herald news service so I can pull from the wires, and nagging asking reporters for story updates, managing tweets, (my cat also picked yesterday to develop some serious health issues that freaked me out), and basically, yesterday was stresstastic.

And I’m still having bloody problems with setting priorities for stories in the Town News system and it’s starting to make me feel really stupid. It’s really klunky and old-fashioned software (well, as ‘old-fashioned’ as software can really be) and maybe that’s what’s throwing me. I long the for simple beauty and intuitiveness of a WordPress back-end.

I’ll probably be feeling a little ‘yikes’ again today as I meet with a website client who wants a bunch of changes (most likely a complete revamp) of his website while I try to do my nag thing with the reporters and read a ton of comments from high school kids who are angry about a story we did on their wrestler who was arrested for dealing drugs.

I’ll get the hang of it soon, I just know it.

[Desk move update: possibly coming in this weekend to take down the things I hung on my walls to remind me of the big wide world out there when I need to look away from the computer for a bit.]

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