It’s funny, you never know when things will snow ball out of your hand. Kind of like journalism-you never really know what to expect and it seems that at the most bizarre moments the most important things happen.
As I glided off the AirTrain and into the check-in line at jetBlue’s gorgeous Terminal 5 at the John F. Kennedy International Airport last Monday, my iPhone 4 rang and it was a number I didn’t recognize. I usually don’t answer unknown numbers, but something made me pick up the call. I’m glad I did, it was Rob Hooker, Deputy Managing Editor of the prestigious St. Petersburg Times. Here I was about to face either an enhanced pat down or a full body scan and this man was telling me I was a finalist for the internship program.
No, I didn’t get the internship in case you’re wondering. I found out today. I’m not too upset about it really. But the point is that things can happen to reporters when we least expect them to. Kind of like how I accidentally deleted all of my old website content, and was forced to make a new one the other day (hence this new and improved version).
I had a sudden desire to redesign my website dextermullins.com over the last two days. I had been peddling around looking for a theme that I liked enough to want to customize, and finally settled on one at around 6 p.m. on Tuesday. Little did I know that my short venture would turn into a two day saga. 6 p.m. blended in 1 a.m., and domain hosts were swapped without content backup, much coffee was consumed. To make a long story short, I woke up on Wednesday realizing that I hadn’t saved any of my old content and just sat down to spend all of the day, night and early into today recoding. Hadn’t planned on doing that, but I think the end result outweighs the orginial frustration. I’ve come a long way from this: 
to the current version. Look out young journalists! Things happen when you will be least prepared.