Traffic Reporters - Softies or Dicks?

Sometimes when I'm driving, the most pressing questions in my life come to the forefront of my mind.  "Why do people in the Bay Area drive slower than the speed limit in the fast lane?"  "What exactly is the ten year T-note that Kai Rissdale constantly talks about?" "Is that bucket going to fall off that pickup truck and hit my windshield and kill me right here on 101 during rush hour?" "What should I do with my life?"  "Where exactly am I?"

After getting let go from a job I (thought I) liked last week, some of those questions have been more pressing.  I think I got away with it for a while, but after 30, not knowing what you want to do with your life, career-wise, is less "forever young" and more "wannabe young".  So, I'm going to figure it out here.  How? I don't know.  But it's going to happen, here and at my tv blog, Sofi's Choice.  And no, I don't think that's crass, so stop asking.

All I can do to get this party called life started is start, right?  So, every day until I find gainful employment and/or become the next Perez Hilton (PS what happened to HIM????) I'm going to blog about something - doesn't matter what.  Although more than likely, it'll be about tv.  

Some people might find me full of hubris, that I might imagine people would be interested in my life and my opinions, and that I might casually use the word hubris outside of a high school essay about Hamlet.  This might be true especially since my life lately has been primarily made up of sandwich making, self-medicating with cheap red wine, watching the ID channel, and generally wallowing in self-pity.  Maybe that in and of itself is kind of interesting, if you're into hot messes (I know I am!) but I guarantee you, I'll make it fun. And just FYI, there is a show on ID called Swamp Murders featuring just that.

First up - do you think traffic reporters on TV are like the lame kids from elementary school that everyone else tolerated but no one hung out with?  I'm a big Mornings on 2 fan on KTVU (so much so that I made up my own abbreviation for it, Mo2) here in the Bay Area, and I always feel like Sal Castenada is trying SO HARD to be cool, but like, is he?  Do you think Dave Clark and Tori Campbell (DC and TC to me; I am really creative with nicknames) mildly bully him during the breaks?  "Hey Sal, wanna grab me a coffee?  Obviously you're not doing anything other than reading off the Caltrans website, right??" "Sally, better check Twitter for me before I head home, because if I get stuck on the Bridge we know whose fault it'll be..." "YOU TOLD ME TO TAKE 19th AVENUE INSTEAD OF VAN NESS YOU ASSHOLE and I got stuck behind a funeral!"

Now, Sal is probably a total dick who runs the newsroom with an iron fist ("Meteorologist Steve Paulson WILL NOT get stand in front of me in that promo shot or I will walk out right now so help me god, and Tara Moriarty will have to do traffic again - is that what you want?") but I like to picture him as a decent bro.  He definitely seems like a softie - let's just hope he doesn't let Gasia Michaelian or Claudine Wong push him around...