The Reality of Insanity

I'm not sure what happened.

I have a sneaking suspicion that my soul is simply so thirsty for a rehearsal room that I have sunk to the absolute bottom and am now offering free directorial advice to anything around.

As my entries are long, and I appreciate your patience, I will try to back off this one and just show you the bare naked truth of the moment.

The following is a complaint email I sent to one of Gotham's leading news channels regarding a new anchor who I thought was sub par.


Subject: Bad anchor

To Whom It May Concern,

I have enjoyed watching channel 3 for many years and believe the anchor staff to be strong, sure and sincere. Don, Cathy and Rick are fantastic! However, I do not think the newer anchor (Wanda?) is a good addition to the team.

I turned to channel 3 this afternoon for information about the North Springfield Mall stabbing- my friend had called me while in lockdown in Macy's. No one else was talking about it, so I was happy to see channel 3 was on top of it. There were not many details to speak of, so I understand that there was little to report, but Wanda seemed to smile while she talked about the story. I know she wasn't laughing, but her lips kept twitching and she had strange dreamy look on her face while she sat there. It was bizarre and as if she were talking about a mall far away instead of one 20 miles away full of Gotham residents a week after Thanksgiving. I thought that perhaps she was just nervous about reporting Breaking News, but then she also seemed to smile when reporting on the young cancer patient who died. She was very condescending when she introduced the video report. She seemed to smile while talking about how he knew it was his time and had accepted his fate. Her hushed tone made it sound like she was talking about an darling puppy who got stung by a bee and not an 11 year old boy who passed away after a long battle with illness. It was very strange.Maybe people thought it was okay to put her on the Saturday afternoon news because they don't consider the program to be hard hitting, but I think she brings down what Don and Cathy maintain. I got so sick of her eerie facial expressions and seemingly canned tone that I turned the channel and waited for the Channel 5 at 5.

She's very pretty, but doesn't seem to be a real person. She just doesn't seem to "get it." Maybe she needs more experience as a field reporter before settling her in to the newsroom. Channel 3 is better than Wanda (at least at this time in her career).

Thank you for your time.

Kind regards,

-Miss D


I'm not sure why I did it. But I honestly meant everything I said. At the time. It did piss me off that she was so crap. However, I think I was more annoyed at the station because the woman clearly had no idea where this crime took place. Furthermore, the way she dressed was OBVIOUSLY not Gotham. Surely there is some kind of stylist that can help her or like a course that new anchor people take to better acquaint them with the area. It was the station that should have trained her better.

Well, I went to sleep slightly forgetting what I had done, but also feeling like I was being a good consumer providing feedback. I figured that some manager would see, screen it and perhaps mention a much diluted version of the complaint to her or someone else in passing.

9 am the next day however....

Hi Miss D-

I am very much a real person and want to thank you for sending this note to the station. I appreciate your feedback and am very sorry you weren't happy with the presentation. I hope you will give me a second chance and continue tuning in to channel 3 beyond my third week on the air here. Yes, breaking news like today's is undoubtedly important. I wish the details would have come in more quickly. I certainly would never smile about a situation involving someone injured by gunfire with thousands of shoppers and store employees nearby. Something very similar happened years ago in my hometown. Several innocent people were killed. The stories were heart wrenching, I don't think I'll ever forget it. I would hate to ever sound insensitive about families going through anything similar.Again, I take your comments personally and my job seriously. I hope you will forgive my weaknesses and let me know what you like and don't like in the future.

Take care,

Waverly

Yeah....so....

In short: wrote a rather lengthy and bitchy email to a news station (that I DON'T even watch and only watched because it was talking about the story), soured the humble beginnings of some girl and got her name wrong. And then she wrote back.

Moral: I need to have sex with something. Anything. Now.