Colts Coffee and confidence

My morning got off to a great start today. I woke up wired and in a good mood for no particular reason. Then I got to sip my coffee from an Indianapolis Colts mug and that set me over the happy edge. A friend of ours had to go to a wedding in Indiana this past Saturday and she was able to arrange her schedule so she could be in Indianapolis for the Colts game against the Browns on Sunday. I'm insanely jealous! I couldn't talk to her about it before she went and while we were watching the game I kept moaning to Angela about the fact that she was in the same building with Dwight Freeney and Peyton Manning. She was wearing one of my borrowed Manning jerseys, so at least part of me was there. And she swiped an extra free coffee mug that they were passing out at the stadium and brought it back for me. It's from some Indianapolis fast-food restaurant called Rally's and they're trying to pimp their post-game burgers, but who cares! It's blue and it has the horseshoe and the 2005 schedule on it. And it spent at least a moment of it's life in the RCA Dome. I may start using it for skim milk and wine too. Just not at the same time...that would be silly.

Thomas the protege surprised me last Tuesday and arrived promptly for our 10:00 meeting, so I'll make every effort not to doubt him today. This week his assignment was to sift through an hour of on-air work from one of my Saturday "Best of Kidd" shows and re-record it in his own style. I'm not excited about it. Not because I think Thomas will do a bad job. I think he'll be great. I just don't usually spend a lot of time going back over my own tapes (unless I'm sitting in an air-check meeting with our boss Patrick) because I'm usually sufficiently haunted by thoughts of the things I could have done better and I don't need the audio to remind me. Hearing someone else recreate what I did will only magnify things. But who knows, maybe this mentoring experience with Thomas will help me overcome some of my own weaknesses.

Okay JUST as I was writing that last part, Kelly the receptionist walked into the studio and told me Thomas just called to cancel for like the fifth time in eight weeks. So I'm back to doubting Thomas again, but I'm too lazy to rewrite that part of the blog. At least I don't have to sit through the me re-enactment now. Woohoo!

I'm excited about lunch today. Skim milk in the Colts mug. Still in a great mood...