SCATTERBRAINED: Being Frank

By FRANCISCO E. JIMENEZ
Staff Writer
reporter@sbnewspaper.com

Francisco E. Jimenez

Francisco E. Jimenez

I should be at my sister’s ballet recital right now, but instead I am still at the office. There is dead silence here. You could probably hear a pin drop (or my stomach growling).

Little by little, updates are trickling in from the Lady ’Hounds’ regional semi-final matchup against San Antonio O’Connor.

At least I’m not alone. Managing Editor Michael Rodriguez is also here and having to answer to his wife for being extremely late for dinner. My phone vibrates with messages from a friend from out of town wanting to catch up.

This is the life of a newspaper reporter, I guess.

This week has not been good to me. I’ve chased leads and ended up nowhere. Sources aren’t answering or returning calls. The only things I seem to be gaining are gray hairs, and the anticipation from the Lady ’Hounds game isn’t making my night any easier.

What’s worse is that I haven’t had an opportunity to write a column in two weeks, and now that I have some time I can’t think of anything to write about. My mind is going a million miles a second. I hate this.

I feel like Robert De Niro’s character in the movie, “Being Flynn.”

“Where is my masterpiece?!”

But wait, what’s that? A light at the end of the tunnel? I can watch my sister’s recital tomorrow! She performs all week, after all. The Lady ’Hounds won! The paper is almost finished and I can almost go home!

I am going to sleep so hard this weekend.

I’m not sure if there is a moral to this rant, but if there is, I’d like to think that it’s, “count your blessings,” which is exactly what I intend to do this weekend (heck, and every weekend after that).

In the meantime, I would like to give a shout-out to the Lady Hounds and the entire San Benito community in making it through this “distraction” bestowed upon the team on the eve of the big game. I hope San Benito fans take the high road with this win. Stay classy, San Benito.

I would also like to give a shout-out to the Eagle Pass fans who invaded sbnewspaper.com like a swarm of cicadas raining down on the East Coast. Thank you for showing interest in our website, and thank you for making the Lady ’Hounds’ victory to the Elite Eight even sweeter.

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