Friday I worked all day and then had to work at a baseball game that night. Working baseball for me basically means that I sit on my tail, doing light computer work and watching a computer monitor for 3-3.5 hours. The games are 2.5-3 hours but I have to be in my seat feeding the director content 30 minutes (sometimes earlier) before game time. I work on the video crew that runs everything on the big board (jumbotron as most call it) at an SEC University. The job sounds way cooler than it is and in my 5th year of doing it I can honestly say that the "new car smell" has officially worn off. While everyone else is enjoying the sunshine, atmosphere and choice adult beverages, the video crew is in a dark basement room watching TV monitors and communicating to the outside world via headset, without sunshine and adult beverages and don't get me started on the atmosphere. I'll nicely say that it is extremely stressful during certain parts of the year and during others it is actually not all that bad. I am not alone in this crew, at any given game there could be 10-20 of us plugging away together. During football season we're locked behind a gate that has bars very similar to the ones that barricade zoo animals into their cages. When you walk by you can see several of us standing outside the door to Control Room trying to look all snobby with our All Access badges silently wishing we were outside the fence enjoying the day like everyone else. Somedays I think we're just as bad as the zoo animals because I swear if the gate opened and we were given access to freedom then we would all run and take advantage of all the spoils that await. Anyhow, the diet....can anyone guess why I've put on 25lbs in 24 weeks of pregnancy? Just wait until you see the rest of the gory details from this weekend. Let's just say that someone (ME!!) needs to learn some serious self control and I'm so not proud of it.
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