ACLU Press Conference

I swear, I never know what the day will bring.
Yesterday, I went to my internship. While parking and feeding the parking meter beast, I saw one of the station reporters doing the same. So we chatted while walking to the station. She told me she had an event to go to at noon. I asked if I could shadow her today if Boss-Lady (not her real name, but it's her name in this blog... she's cool people) didn't have anything else for me to do.

She didn't, and thought it would be valuable if I trailed R.J. for the day.
So I hung around the staion for about an hour, surfing the web, looking for whatever background information I could find on the subject...

around 11 we left. it was the funniest drive to downtown d.c. i have ever taken! 30 minutes later and a stream of expletives from the R.J., and a near accident, we parked and walked a few blocks to the ACLU office.

Up the elevator we went, where R.J. introduced me to someone from CBS News. I liked the orange plaid-ish button-down shirt he was wearing.

I noticed the dress of the press. Some were suited and booted like R.J. Others very casual. I know I love a pair of jeans and a t-shirt any given day! We were given food, and then ushered into the conference room.

R.J. was setting up the recorder, plugged it into the mult box... she was situated on the front row. I sat next to her... i was taking names from the nameplates placed in front of the participants... and this cameraman walked up to me and said

"excuse me... you're very tall...
and your hair is very tall [it was... he was not joking]...
and the cameras can't see the participants... so would you mind moving aside?"

of course i could have been offended, but what for? I am indeed tall... and my hair is indeed BIG! So I moved...

To shorten this story, the conference was with the ACLU, a member of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and two relatives of one of the Jena 6. It was interesting.
It was nice. I'm glad I went.