Tryptophan is the bomb!

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone! I had a nice time engorging myself full of food today at the various relative's houses. It's nice to have a break, but I'm bored already.

This week in broadcasitng was super short for me, being only 2 days long, but I actually got a lot done. There was no County Line this week, obviously, but we're looking pretty good for next week. I want to have one more package done this year. I've had the hybrid cars package up on the board like 4 times this year. Mr. Weaver also suggested visiting a Christmas farm to see how they do things this time of year, or finding a family that cuts down a traditional tree every year. We'll see what pops up.

Looking towards my career, I've been getting more serious about getting all of my stuff together. I took about 2 hours and listened to all my DJ airchecks from this summer and this semester. I put together my best clips into about a 3min segment, and also got all of my production and promos together. I want to have Dr. B and Tandi both listen to it before I finalize everything. Next up is getting my TV resume tape together. That should be interesting!

I had several conversations with different people about what I'm going to do once I graduate, and the general answer is I HAVE NO IDEA!!! I'm starting to get a little freaked out. It's hard because broadcasting jobs, for the most part, need to be filled immediately. So, every day I see all these job listings and everything, and I feel like I'm missing out by not applying, but I honestly couldn't take a job right now. I have another full course load next semester and have a night class and dance theater. My friend Maria gave me some good advice. She said to not worry about finding my first job, because my first job isn't going to be what I end up doing for the rest of my career. *phew*

I didn't find an article this week, but I did find something that was kind of interesting. Target has been advertising these Wake Up promotions where you visit Target.com and send your friends, loved ones, or enemies a wake up message from a celebrity or otherwise annoying character. I definitely checked out the website to send some of my ever-so-lucky friends a wakeup message, but the site said they were experiencing a huge amount of bandwith and could not process of the requests. I wonder how many people actually did visit the site and what it will do for Target's Black Friday sales. PS- No one better send me one!

Sleep, glorius sleep!

So, the musical is over, thanks to everyone that came to see it! Dance Team also had their first performance at the Blue & White game! Here's some photos:

Now that I have my evenings back to do what I want, I gotta start rolling on my senior project and everything that needs to be wrapped up for my classes. I'll admit- I've been slacking on some of my class work because of my extracurriculars, but now I have more free time.

This week in broadcasting was very typical. We had The County Line on Thursday, which went pretty well! Things were shaky at the begining of the week because we had little content for the show, but magically everything fell together on Thursday. Everything was finished early so it was smoothe sailing! Good job Mike and Shannon!

On the career path... *tumble weed rolls by* Ya, that about sums it up! Musical and Dance team took over my life, but musical's over and Dance team is self-sustaining so that frees up a lot of time. I'm going to fix my resume next week and hopefully put together my radio resume tape as well. The TV tape will come in the following weeks.

I found an article about how the FCC and ABC are still facing off about the Desperate Housewives promo during Monday Night Football. The network is facing major heat after thousands of complaints came in about one of the characters dropping her towel for a football player. It was a bit much, but the whole premise of that TV show is sexually active housewives and their daily doings. I'm sure the ad and controversy gained them new viewers.

How's the project going?

Senior project has been a subconcious, but on-going process this year. I haven't been thinking about it too much, what with the musical, dance team and dance theater, but I have slowly been adding up all of the parts of it. I have a lot completed, but compiling most of it into resume tapes is going to be the most work. Here's an update:

TV Producer

• I have several useable County Line's to use for a producer's tape. This past week's prerecord was a very successful show and had good flow. The "horse" show also had a good flow.
• I need to find time to review the old tapes and choose my favorite.

TV Reporter/Talent

• I said I wanted at least 2 packages completed to put on a resume tape. As of now I have 3 solid packages completed and want to do at least one more before the semester ends.
• I need to choose the best clips from my packages and include them on a resume tape.

Radio Promotions Creator

• I have 2/3 radio promos finished, one for Digital 88.9 News and one for the Lambda Sigma clothing drive.
• I need to complete one more promo, which will most likely be for The County Line.

Radio Disk Jockey

• I said I was supposed to create an exciting, professional and enthusiastic resume tape of my DJ shifts.
• The aircheck machine has been out of commission for about 3 weeks now, so I don't have much new material to use. It's up and running again (for now) so hopefully I'll get some good stuff in the next week or so.

Things are going well. Now that musical is almost over, I will have all of my evenings back and have a lot more time to dedicate to getting my resume tapes completed.

Kiss Me, Kate

The cast and crew have been working really hard on Theatre Westminster's latest production, Kiss Me, Kate! We're down to the wire on rehearsals, only 2 more until we open on Wednesday night! Everyone's getting pretty worn out, but once the curtain opens on Wednesday night we'll be ready to rock! If you don't have tickets already

Theatre Westminster Presents
Kiss Me, Kate
November 10, 11, 12, 13- 7:30pm
November 14- 2:30pm
Beeghly Theater
To reserve tickets call (724) 946-7241


Here's me and the dancers doing the routine for the number "Too Darn Hot." It's pretty fun! Hopefully I'll see you there! (Thanks to Rich Marmura for the picture!)

Too many donuts!!!

Last night I went to Dunkin' Donuts at 1:30am and bought a dozen. I ate about half of what I bought and my stomach hurts now! ...just thought I'd share!

This week in broadcasting has been much like those in the past. The show was really last minute this week, with Julie, Liz, Tandi, and me editing on Thursday afternoon! Luckily we got everything done and we actually had one of our best County Line's of the year! The show had good flow, good pace, good content and there were very few technical errors. Kirstan Gides did an excellent job with County Comments this, week as well. I was very happy. I had my usual radio shifts and stuff. My friend Megan told me that I do a really nice job on the radio. She said she always listens to me but never tells me that she likes listening, so that was a nice compliment! Thanks, Mega!

My career search has been pretty limited as of now. The musical and dance team is taking up all of my time, but that will be over next week so I can focus back on what I need to get done. Julie was applying to Channel One News this week, and that's a place that I had totally overlooked! I always used to watch Channel One during high school and I think it would be a pretty cool place to work. I'll have to look in to it. (Don't worry, Julie, I won't steal your job!)

I found and article on FOXNews.com (which isn't the most unbiased site around) called "Why Bush Won and Kerry Lost." It said that most of the country agrees with Bush's traditional beliefs and forgive him for the mistakes that he's made. It also says that the severely slanderous media campaigns against Bush, like Fahrenheit 9/11, made people sympathize with the President and feel negatively against Kerry, even though those attacks weren't exactly produced by him. I feel that those negative ads were the main reason many people voted for Bush. I know that when I watched Fahrenheit 9/11 I was disgusted with how Bush was portrayed. Yes, some of the events were HIGHLY suspicious in the film and did make concerned, but hindsight is 20/20, so I don't think anyone could have done a better job w/ the events of 9/11 than Bush did. That's my 2 cents!