Knee-High by the Fourth of July

   I remember reading "Knee-High by the Fourth of July" on the front page of the Daily Chronicle a few years ago, and I don't know why that's something that's stuck with me. It's a saying that farmers use to anticipate a good season or the crops growing well--if the corn is knee-high by the fourth of July, then you're doing pretty well. 1,000+ miles away from the cornfields, my fourth of July wasn't set to be very exciting--I had to work. Surprise: news takes no holidays!
    I didn't have to work until 3pm, so I'd planned to wake up early and go layout in Central Park--but that was NOT happening. No matter how hard I try, I'm always sleeping right until I HAVE to get up for work. So, work started out pretty standard, exceeeepppttt!! The night manager and lineups person brought in hot dogs in like a crock pot, and we had a George Foreman grill, and homemade chocolate chip cookies--the GOOD kind, without too many chocolate chips! So, the day started out perfectly..I began with 2 hot dogs and some cookies. By the end I consumed 5 hot dogs in total and 6 cookies :-O baahaha, few people have seen me go to town with my fat girl binges. It was delicious though. Next year maybe I'll enter the infamous Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest out at Coney Island.

First Time I'm Proud to be The Creep in back

     Then, later I was basically forced to sit on the World News set. I didn't really want to because I didn't feel like sitting still for that long, and it was David Muir as Diane is still gone, and I just didn't feel like it. But since it's a holiday, they were extra short on people, so I did. It wasn't too bad, and I was actually on TV alot this time!

Something Made Me Laugh...

     So, then my friend and I went to scope out whether or not we could gain access to ABC's roof on the 47 side. (Sn: that's where we work, ABC basically owns all of 66th & 67th street between Central Park W and Columbus, there's WABC, 147, 77, and 47 where we work.) So we made our way through this secret little way to the roof. You have to take one elevator to the top floor, then get off, and go up again on the only elevator that goes to PH (penthouse) and then climb a flight of stairs, and blah blah all this stuff, but finally we made it to the roof! OOOH MYY WORD!! I wish I'd taken my phone and camera with on our maiden voyage to the top because it was still daylight and the views were absolutely breathtaking! Handsdown THEEE BEST views of Manhattan I've had. Off to the left, we could see the park and itty bitty people laying out and past it over to the east side, and straight ahead we could see to the CNN clock in Columbus Circle, and to the right the Hudson River and Hoboken, NJ, and behind us the upper west side. Oh my gosh, it was beeaautiful! I'm gonna snoop back up there and get some pictures in the daylight before I leave because it was amazing!

     So we ended up watching the fireworks from there, and we weren't the only ones with the idea. There were quite a few people on the roof for the show, so we were in good company. It was pretty dope. The firework show itself wasn't quite as impressive as I would've expected, but the view, from the roof, and the excitement made it the best Independence Day I've had in some years.