Dear Diary

Dear Diary,
Today, I starte work at 7:30 and showed a couple coworkers how to send text messages on a cell phone, and prepared the phone so those texts could post to our newspaper's Twitter feed and Facebook page so we can do more real-time news coverage. Because of a glitch with the phone, I also found its user manual online and saved that to one of our shared drives at work, then informed everyone who should need to interact with that phone where they can find the manual if they later discover problems.
I met with an advertiser to prepare an outline for an advertising story and took the photos that will go along with that.
I helped a local organization connect with one of my sources, to whom they want to give an award.
I covered my regular city council meeting, including taking pictures before the meeting of an agenda item and during the meeting of speakers in the audience and updates during the meeting via the same technique I taught this morning, then emailed the story to our sister radio station. I wrote and posted a breaking story about a crash in a town 20 miles away.
It's now almost 11 p.m. and the cats have missed me.
This is the life of a community reporter.