On edge

I shouldn't have had that soda before I got to the hotel. I haven't had a soda in a while, and I'm starting to feel it. What doesn't help is how on-edge all the tv folk are. I dropped from the second riser to the first to leave after I set up my video camera, and got some stern looks from a camera crew. Risers are not the sturdiest things, and I didn't realize the crew was going live. They weren't even rehearsing beforehand, and no one announced they were going live. So I froze on the riser until the shoot was over. On the other end of the riser, a cameraman from ABC was setting up a camera, and snipped to a group of people that he was from ABC, and absolutely had to have more space. The crew he was snipping to snipped back that ABC obviously didn't care about a local news crew. In the photo that is supposed to be visible with this post, my camera is on the far left. It's itty-bitty compared to the tv station cameras. On the right is the lovely man from ABC. He's yelling at the local tv station folks off-screen to the right. The two Des Moines Register photographers who are here taking photos assured me closer to Edwards' appearance, the photographers taking still photos would begin this kind of behavior, too. Yikes. I don't know what I'll do if someone tries to yell at me for something. Probably cry. I shouldn't have had that soda. I'm going back in to check on my tripod and video camera on the riser. I'll be very careful to check first and see if anyone is going live on camera.

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