September 29th – October 3rd

Thursday – Travel Day

Had a wonderful nap on the CMH > ATL flight.

Brief stop at the new D Concourse Sky Club - Wow, how nice it is to have club in that concourse now!

Shortly after boarding my ATL > BTR flight, I see my friend Mike boarding.  He is across the isle from me, so he asks to switch seats with the guy next to me so we can chat.

He was on a later flight but landed early and there was an open seat on my flight, so he was able to get on.

Always fun to have someone to travel with.

After getting in to Baton Rouge, we found the hotel, dropped our stuff and headed out for an early dinner.

We found a local Italian place – DeAngelo’s. It was really good!

Headed back to the hotel, changed and then I met up with the guys to go out to celebrate Jerome’s birthday.

We went to The Chimes on campus.

Had a nice evening with the boys.

Friday – Set Day

This was my first time doing football at LSU.  I had been here for other sports.

It is tradition at LSU to only play home games at night.  However, due to contractual obligations, they had to play this weekend at 11:20a local time for our show.  This made the fans and school very very very unhappy.

One of our camera guys had a video shoot with “Mike” – the LSU mascot.  Here are photos of the shoot.

Set day went well.  Even got out just before 6pm.  A new record for the season.

I didn’t get a chance, but Thomas walked over to visit “Mike” in his habitat.  Here is a picture he brought back.

In the evening, most of us sat at the bar for the (free) Manager’s Reception.

Saturday

Kentucky vs 1 LSU

Even though I got my usual Friday night 6 hours of sleep, I was so sleepy today!

On the walk to lunch we got to see “Mike” in his trailer waiting to go over to the stadium.  You know what a sucker I am for live mascots.

After breakfast, I went into the stadium to get a few photos.

Announce booth

Crazy fan posing with our Operations Producer, John

View of TV Compound from stadium

Cart cam on field (Lance)

Unhappy, drunk fans up way too early!

In the evening, a lot of us met up again for free drinks.

I was a good girl and went upstairs around 7:15p.  I needed to get to bed around 8.  Have to get up at 4a tomorrow.

I ordered room service – grilled cheese.  Please note the slice on the left; it displays that the bottom of the “grilled cheese” was not at all grilled!

Sunday – Travel/Work

Mississippi St vs Ole Miss Volleyball

Never fun to travel/work, but sometimes you have to.

6:30a flight this morning to Memphis.  Then 1.5 hour drive down to Oxford, MS.  

My friend Mike was making the trip too.  We got on the shuttle bus to the rental car facility just about the same time as our crew call was.  They knew we were going to be late, so it wasn’t a big deal.  It’s just knowing you are starting the day behind that sucks.

This was a Campus Connection event.  Which means we had 10 Ole Miss students shadowing us for the day.  They are usually Juniors and Seniors from the Broadcasting or Journalism school.

It’s a great opportunity for them to get a taste of one aspect of the TV industry.

The game went 5 sets; Mississippi St won.

Got on the road back to Memphis around 730p; at hotel just before 9p.  What a long day!

Monday – Travel Home

Was asleep shortly after 10p last night.  I got to sleep in until 6a today – what a treat!

Got to the gate just as we should have been boarding.  Hmm…  something is awry.

Sure enough..  8:33a flight is now delayed until 915a

Now delayed until 930a…  10… 

Finally took off around 10:30a.