Besides the blizzard that knocked out my power for eight days, which now that I think about it makes everything else seem kind of trivial, I had a couple of setbacks while trying to complete my first project.
I had some trouble getting my initial interviews, and I had to pretty much bug the heck out of the Veteran's Affairs guy to get them done; he has a hectic schedule and apparently is on the phone with different military personnel and students almost every minute of everyday. After about a week trying, I caught him idling between tasks and was able to do an interview and get some contact information for a student veteran. On a side note: The veteran, it turned out, didn't have much going on besides being a student. So, I remedied the situation by doing a story on the Army ROTC program and changing the veteran profile from a main story into a sidebar.
Other setbacks included the temporary loss of my digital camera, which I totally freaked out about and then eventually found under my bed, and the permanent loss of my reporter notebook - which held the names of the three people in my favorite photo… Arghh! I’m still trying to find a solution to the photo problem.
Photo: Director of Veteran's Affairs, Robert Prah, sits behind his desk.
