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Night Shift Diary
Heather Searles, associate producer
The night of the Superbowl, 2000-Boston, Massachusetts
Okay, I'll be the first to admit it! I fell asleep. It was tough
staying up all night and at 4:30 a.m. or so, when we shot a
sit-down interview with Dennis Leonardo who worked Internet
security for GTE in Boston, I could not keep my eyes open. We
did the interview in a glass conference room and I was sitting
off in the corner. Blake (camera), Rich (sound), Rhian, (producer),
and myself. Our talent was tired as well. Nonetheless, I don't
know how long I dozed off. It may have been 10 minutes or as
long as 50 minutes.
I didn't feel that badly about falling asleep. It was the wall.
I hit it. We didn't wrap that shoot until 11:00 a.m. and we
were on a plane back to San Francisco at 11:30 a.m. We had
started at 9 p.m. the previous night. We did not use the GTE
story because that night happened to be a really, really slow night.
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