Today is one of those days where nothing is going right. Actually, it's not that today's going wrong, it's just that I'm finding mistakes that I made yesterday.
The last time I made a mistake like this, I wrote the opposite of what actually happened at a water board meeting. The worse part about it is that my editor said it was the best thing I had written. Except I got a couple of facts wrong. Not only that, other news editors took what I wrote as gospel.
Friends tried to cheer me up by telling their stories--declared a sheriff guilty of a crime by getting the guilty guy's name wrong; someone else said someone was dead and that wasn't true; Kimmie reminded me when a reporter we worked with said a guy was being sentenced to life, then death, then life again and then death. I tried to cheer myself up by reminding myself that I didn't kill anyone; when I worked in a pharmacy making IVs, too much potassium chloride could kill a person (just ask Dr. Kevorkian) and I never killed anybody.
Still, I feel really guilty about this one. I kept getting the dates of a performance on campus wrong. I should have known something was wrong when my boss said I won the daily award for leads. I got the times right, but the days wrong. In the calendar I sent to the paper, I got the days right, but the times wrong. Same with the press release. I wouldn't feel so bad if people actually came to these events. As it is, hardly anyone shows up. Of course, if more people showed up, they'd show up at the wrong time and that would still be bad. Regardless, I feel bad, so here's my correction:
Media Advisory
Opera, Tornadoes, the Sun and the Moon this weekend
at TAMIU
What:
This weekend, audiences can enjoy an evening at the opera with a performance of “The Count’s Revenge: An Abridged Version of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro” or catch “Secrets of the Sun,” “Force 5” or “Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon.”
When and Where:
“The Count’s Revenge”
Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 25 at 4 p.m.
TAMIU Center for the Fine and Performing Arts Recital Hall
“Secrets of the Sun”
Friday, Feb. 23 at 7 and 8 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 24 at 6 p.m.
Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium
“Force 5”
Saturday, Feb. 24 at 5 p.m.
Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium
“Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side of the Moon”
Saturday, Feb. 24 at 7 p.m.
Lamar Bruni Vergara Planetarium
Why:
TAMIU offers family-friendly entertainment opportunities that can only be found at the University this weekend.
Of Significance:
Tickets to “The Count’s Revenge” are $7.50 for adults and $5 for students and available at the TAMIU Student Center Information Desk. General admission tickets for the LBV Planetarium cost $5 and tickets for TAMIU students, faculty and staff and children under 12 are $4. Tickets to “Dark Side of the Moon” are $6 for general admission and TAMIU students, faculty and staff and children 12 and under are $5. Those buying a ticket for a second showing on the same day save $2 off the second ticket.
For information, please don't call me.
2 comments:
If it makes you feel better, the worst mistake I ever made was missing a work flight by an entire day thereby requiring my job to pay $1500 for an emergency last minute one way flight to Canada.
So yeah. That was a dark day.
That would make me cry. This, not so much.
But now I feel obligated to attend Sunday's performance and that just might make me cry.
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