Not Enough Hours in the Day

Remember how I admonished myself not to start writing stories the night before they're due?

Well, my next story is due at 10AM on Friday, and so far I have not written a single word.

Ugh.

I spent all day on my beat today, going from one interview to another -- a total of almost six hours of talking to nine different people.

When I got home, I spent hours sifting through research I did over the weekend. (See, I was planning ahead.)

With all that, I still don't have my lede.

Did I mention the assignment? It's to put a human face on the recent Census report showing that NYC is the only major metropolitan area to experience an increase in poverty since last year. Ideally, I'm supposed to find a person or family living below the poverty line and willing to talk to me about it.

Um, that's not exactly the easiest thing to do.

Which is why I'll be going back to the Bronx tomorrow morning. First thing.

Oh, and I have a new class tomorrow night from 7:00-9:30PM, which means I'll get home around 10:30PM, if I'm lucky.

So, yeah, it's not looking like I'm going to be getting a whole lot of sleep tomorrow night.

And, by the way, Agassi just took the third set after dropping the first two to James Blake in the U.S. Open quarterfinals. I really, really, really want to see the end of the match, but that's just asking for even more trouble. . . .