Well, the focal point of my afternoon was the live radio interview on WLIJ-AM with Kelly Corcoran, who will conduct the Nashville Symphony at this year’s Shelbyville concert. I went to WLIJ’s studios and conducted a live telephone interview with Kelly. The radio folks know me (I had a weekly talk show on the station at one time, years ago) and they just put me on the air and let me do the interview, since I know what the concert is about and what we need to promote. My plan, just as with last year’s interview of Albert-George Schram, was to do the live radio interview and then pull some quotes and turn it into a a brief news story for tomorrow’s T-G.

That was why I had a note pad and pen sitting in front of me during the interview.

But I was so in the moment, so excited and so focused on getting the radio interview right, that I didn’t take any notes. Not one. The interview turned out relatively short — 10 minutes or so. And last year, the announcer who was on duty at the station taped the interview; I didn’t think to ask them to do that this year.

Yes, I know the gist of what Kelly said, but the only purpose of doing a story like that is to incorporate some exact quotes, and I don’t have any and don’t have a way to get any.

Fortunately, we weren’t counting on the story from a news standpoint; we have plenty of other stuff for the front page tomorrow. And I can always come up with a different news peg for another symphony article in a few days. But I feel like such an idiot.