OR Summer p2

For the main days of the OR show, all of us writers get together, claim stories, then hit the show to get all of our research. After a full day of talking to industry experts, with random instances of pinch me!, like when I had a full conversation with Conrad Anker, who has summited Everest some three times. After getting enough quotes, two o'clock and crunch time arrives and for the next two hours, I usually occupy the garbage pail outside of the news room to type my articles standing up. By 3:30, I had all four of my articles in and had the chance to grab a bite of food. From that time until our 7:00 meeting, there was no reason to be in the news room, so I trolled the show floor in search of good music and article ideas. Usually, I can accomplish the music part of that goal along with finding a few good brews.

At seven, we are assemble in the news room to debrief, then scare up some food. So that is the cadence of the show: running and eating dominoes for lunch then having an extravagant sushi meal for dinner after the relief of making all the deadlines. Not too boring!