Julie_Kim's Blog

Monday I attended the 15 year anniversary of NY1, a Time Warner Cable station, the first local 24 hour newschannel. While in college and shortly thereafter, I worked there as a shooter and desk person. Anyone who'd been an employee through the 15 years was invited for the celebration and trip down memory lane.

I remember going to my high school reunion and the small smirking part of my soul fervently hoping that the mean pretty girls of my youth turned out to be mean and ugly girls grownup. Ahem. Oh. Where was I?

Oh yes, this reunion was different. As a 20-23 year old, I got to cover so many different things, big breaking news to politics. I trained several people to shoot and at this reunion, I saw them again and found that they had grown up and moved onto other jobs at the network affiliated stations. They had gotten married, engaged, had children, gotten out of the business. It's such an odd feeling. I worked side by side with these people in the hot summers, cold winters and various news cycles, driven to do the best we could, even though back then, we were the youngest, newest kids on the block in a city that likes to chew you up and spit you out.

It's a proud feeling to look around the room and see network correspondents and producers, documentary photographers, producers, executive producers for national shows and realize we all started there.

There's also a feeling of regret. You move so fast when you're young, always onto the next thing, what's next, where to and I lost touch with a lot of these very wonderful people. It's an odd thing, these reunions, like a weird time warp, quantam leap kind of thing. Maybe I'm thinking too much. Yep. That's it.