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candybear said:
Having a hard time standing myself right now.

This nice lady I've written about before who runs a ballet school across the street from my office sent me a great story idea. She sent it awhile ago, though, and I'm really bad about writing things down on a calendar. I'm lucky just to get through each day on the fly -- unscheduled stuff is the nature of my job.

Anyway, I managed to miss everything I could have stood to go to, except for today. It was my last chance for pictures and talking to the dancers and whatnot -- their spring recital.

I am in trouble because I assumed it was at the office across the street, so when I went over there at 1:15 for the 1:30 recital, there were no cars, and the door was locked. Meaning it's somewhere else, I missed it yet again, and I'm now screwed on this story.

I am mucking up this job something fierce as it is, and I'm having a crappy, crappy day as it is, and I wonder if I am ever going to do anything right, ever again.

Mercifully, I see pdoc tomorrow, but I had been feeling better -- I just don't know yet if this is going to be a temporary episode or if I am going to spiral down again.

I used to pride myself on being a competent person who could push through my mental health issues and still do a decent job.....I wish I knew what happened.

Candy

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OK I am nowhere near being able to give you advice.

But maybe ... you could contact ballet lady and ask to do a story on the school, ask if the girls can dress in their recital costumes to show themselves off to the public, and mention how well the recent recital went. Maybe the ballet teacher has a couple of actual pics from the recital.

Position it as something that ppl may want to get their children in - not blatent advertising, but put the spin that it's a great source of enjoyment for the girls in your town ...

Oh I am sorry, I am just trying to come up with some spin that can emphasise the recital that you ooopsy missed but you 'still think is important to feature'....

Just say you were out of town for that week and you are sorry but no one else was able to take the story and you would still love to talk to the dancers etc ...

Ok whatever you do good luck, and we all mess stuff up, I know as well as you do what that is like ... but I sort of think you can pull this off in a diff way / angle ...

good luck anyway.