The Christmas season is certainly a special time of the year. I never know quite where I may find myself – standing in the freezing cold outside some Bainbridge apartment as dozens of police swarm the scene, or hunching between the seats of an elementary school concert taking holiday photographs.

Though Christmas tends to bounce the extremes back and forth more for me, between my routine mayhem reporting duties and good will charity, it’s never the same day twice at The Evening Sun.

Jumping at 24-hour internals throughout last week, at around 2:30 p.m., I recalled what I was up to each particular day.

Sitting in Chenango County Criminal Court on Monday, putting the final touches on the New Berlin Gazette on Tuesday, at the scene of a car versus doctor’s office Wednesday, sorting pictures of an earlier Bainbridge standoff with police Thursday, meeting with volunteers for a Christmas food drive Friday, navigating the throngs at Crossgates Mall in Albany on Saturday and then watching Trans-Siberian Orchestra perform live on stage Sunday. (The last two are personal activities.)

In some of the more hectic of days as a reporter, you’ll find yourself covering four or five completely different subjects in an eight-hour period. Sometimes I feel like a completely different person showing up from one event to the next, depending on what I may be doing.