City Council Day
"Some days you don't get the juicy stuff. You get city council." -Photog friend JL Watkins
Our esteemed city hall reporter Kevin Peters recently left for the bright lights and odd smell of Houston (he's working for sister station KHOU-TV). Which means I'm helping fill in occassionally at Austin City Hall. Today was my first city council meeting. I briefly considered going up on the dais and sitting in Jennifer Kim's seat to see whether anyone would notice.
By the time we left, I felt we'd been there for several hours, but realized we were actually only there for 90 minutes. What happened? It was like entering a strange time vortex. Then I remembered - a photog-blogger at my previous station passed his time at city council by writing haikus, so I thought I'd share some particularly applicable ones:
Address the council?
Please approach the podium.
Be brief, speak clearly.
or...
This is so boring.
I think I'm gonna die.
I hope this ends soon.
Here's mine for today:
Agenda is long
Kinda miss the capitol
Where is Steve Ogden?
If you were also at city council today and writing haikus, please share them in the comments below.
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