No emails = No idea what's going on!

Morning all.

Just over two thirds of the way through my shift here at Classic. It's been pretty uneventful, although I did watch 3000 miles to Graceland earlier and Courteney Cox looked stunning. I don't normally think of her as fit, mainly due to the fact that in Friends, Monica is not a sexy character.

This week at 30 Leicester Square, the email sever has gone kaput, and whilst now the backup is working, it means that any emails that were sent/received a few hours before the server went down and between the time the server went down and the backup was switched off, have probably been lost forever. This obviously includes the on air ones as well as our office emails. It's a bit of nightmare. It hinders my job, because I'm not aware how long the ad breaks are, and whether or not we have news links because I can't get to my emails to print out the ad log. It's a bit of a pain! The sheer scale of the problem though is quite incredible if you think of all the stations in the building and none of them having full email access. Crazy.

I saw my dissertation supervisor, Barbara, yesterday afternoon, and my main gripe was towards transcription, and of course, she responded, rather predictability 'you should have done it two months ago!' which is true, and I understand it's standard academic practice, but it's still a bit rubbish! We discussed the whole thing and I now feel fairly in control and I think it will come together.

I'm feeling pretty knackered, and have done all week. Today, I won't get home until about 10am, and then I have to be up again by 1pm to go to the Harrow Borough game for sports journalism, so we can do our second match report. Denis and I will have a chance to hold a press conference with the manager too, so it will be a cool experience but I really could do with some sleep.

I'd like to take this opportunity to laugh at the West Indies and particularly their coach John Dyson and say a very simple 'haha!'. If you follow sport, and especially cricket, then I'm sure you agree, but if not, it's about yesterday's One Day International that ended in a farcical win for the England team. Great stuff!

Right I'm off, chat to you laters!