Hours spent working on the first four days of this week: 14.5, 11, 16.5, 13.

Today’s shaping up for about 12, to be followed by a six-hour drive to Louisiana tonight. If you saw me on TXCN this morning, I apologize for the enormous wheeled garment bags under my eyes. (I also apologize for my nascent beard, but for different reasons.) If I haven’t returned your phone call or answered your email in the last week, again, apologies.

One pathetic side effect of being on TV once in a while: I am painfully aware of which side is my “good” side. (It’s the left.) I’m also painfully aware that the TXCN studios require my right side to be front and center.

(I guess this song is actually about me.)

Anyway, I’ll be in Rayne tomorrow, lunching with James Sunday, then heading to New Orleans for dinner with CDMOM trader Jennifer and, Monday, my ritual humilation.

Hopefully I’ll have gotten some sleep by then. That’ll also help with the roughly 3,526 angry voice mail messages I expect I’ll have when I go back to work on Tuesday.

08 August 2003

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08 August | 12:24 | Sarah

Your left, or our left?

08 August | 13:46 | josh

my left, your right. the part in my hair looks better, among other things.

08 August | 15:59 | kelly

please tell the story of the beard. is it for a film you're going to be in?

09 August | 12:58 | josh

no story. just haven't shaved in a couple weeks. looking a little grizzly adams. there's a good chance it won't survive the weekend.

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Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)