Jan. 4 - Lisa's Musings from the Ann Arbor Council Meeting

Welcome to the first night of my January meeting month from hell.

With a wonderous week off for the holidays, I've stayed up late as part of my training regime.

I've figured out how to program the new DVR and activated the aircard.

I had a terrific bowl of beef and barley soup, and I'm armed with a perfectly portioned, calorie-counted baggie of high energy nuts, fruits and twigs -- otherwise known as Lisa's version of trail mix.

It's all part of my pre-game ritual.

For something new and different, I brought my laptop and new aircard to the Ann Arbor City Council meeting tonight, which is supposed to begin in seven minutes. There are four council members to be found in the chambers. I suspect the rest are in the council version of the bat cave readying themselves for the first meeting of 2010.

These things never start on time; which annoys the hell out of me.

And today was no different. It's now 8:22 and they have yet to vote on anything; but I do now know how snow plowing operations work in the city.

There have been 30 incidents of deer-car interactions in Ann Arbor ... shall I go on?

The life of a reporter is sometimes very dull.