Angely Mercado’s Field Notes
fter my interview, I grabbed my bag and ran to a nearby train station. The Uproot Project held a panel at The Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island, which is just south of Manhattan.
fter my interview, I grabbed my bag and ran to a nearby train station. The Uproot Project held a panel at The Climate Imaginarium on Governors Island, which is just south of Manhattan.
Monday is the first day of my week and it is usually one of the busiest days, though I work from home all week. I start my day by planning and strategizing for the week.
I was amazed by the vibrant energy of the conference, reconnecting with familiar faces and meeting new colleagues.
I normally use Mondays as an admin day to catch up on emails from the weekend and plan out my to-do lists for the week.
My Mondays normally start off with a look at my emails, planning for the week, and maybe writing a daily digital and radio story. I usually meet with my editor in the early afternoon to go over my plan for the week. Some Mondays, I have interviews in the field for stories I’m working on.
Once I’ve got my caffeine (black tea) and breakfast, it’s off the races. This week, I’m tackling edits on an environmental justice story I’m working on about a neighborhood in a city in Texas.
Mondays tend to have a lot of meetings. An important one is attending the Senior Staff meeting to understand what all of the program offices and divisions — Air and Radiation, Water, Superfund, and Emergency Management, among others — are currently working on.
This was an unusual week for me because I am on vacation between jobs. I also just moved to New Orleans in mid-July so I’m still settling in.