YES, I REALLY DID PUT THAT HOLE IN THE WALL

If you work at the Independent-Mail, you may notice a large circular hole near the sports department and platemaking. I plead guilty to putting the hole there, but it may be justified. How did it happen? Well, Thursday night was the annual Bowden Bowl, or Clemson vs. Florida State. Since we cover Clemson, it was a big night for us and we were expected to get everything in and we're under an edict to meet deadlines more consistantly.

Miracles happen and we made deadline for the first edition (Georgia). But that's when our troubles began. There was a problem with a headline that made one story disapear. When I didn't get a Clemson sidebar and a column from our sports editor by the deadline time, I went without it. This was about 12:15 a.m. That's when the real fun began.

At 12:45, the sports editor calls.
SE: "My new re-written column is in, finally. Can you get it in for OP? (our second edition, where Clemson is)
ME: "No, it's half an hour late, the plate is on the press.
SE: "Well how long will it take to resend it, so it can be on for the edition it matters?"

After that I slammed down the phone, twice, because it answered another call (from the FSU student writing the sidebar) when it bounced, and walked over to the nearest wall about two yards away, and kicked. My sandal went through the wall. I'm glad I was wearing shoes because it was more with my instep than with my toe.