Oh happy day

sunny day, originally uploaded by hartleyr.

Its all being sorted. Frantic building on the newsroom continues downstairs. The desks are being put up one by one and connected to the myriad power and network point cables. The smell of glue is thick in the air. Online newsroom staff have moved into a section of the new newsroom and will have to move again once their final home is finished in the other half of the room. They are working under really difficult conditions with hammering, scraping and the rolling of trolley wheels all around. Meanwhile the multimedia equipment has been ordered, I spent a good part of the afternoon sorting out the final seating arrangments for the staff.  We are expecting our big staff intake on May 2 and by then we should have a newsroom with computers that’s ready to rock.

Staff have started to get that wide-eyed look and they are saying stuff like: ‘I can’t believe its all happening’. I’ve been trying to act cool, but I have these butterflies. This is once-in-a-lifetime stuff.