Wednesday, December 20, 2006

First day jitters

So last night, well no, Monday night was my first day on the job. I went to sleep around 2:30, and pretty much woke up every hour on the hour, till 8:30. I couldn't take it any longer and just decided to stay up at that time. So I wanted to look nice, so I put on makeup and everything, I ended up being about 4 minutes late, but I pulled in right after the outgoing producer anyway so it was cool. She's very nice, and a very good teacher. (Tonight she had me do my own dummy show and she said she was impressed that I finished it, and it was written so well.)

Back to the first day. Sunday night I bought some cans of Red Bull, b/c I just knew I wouldn't be able to stay up. Well I forgot to take one with me to work Monday night, so around midnight I had a headache, and that went away once I had lunch. Around 4 a.m. my eyes started crossing by themselves, I was so tired. And by 6 a.m. I wanted to just fall out on the floor. But I made it through, and made it home safely. But I fell asleep in an hour, despite my best efforts to stay up and then fall asleep so I would wake up when I needed to.

But this seems a little bit easier than I thought it would. I was worried for no reason. I'll keep you posted on whatever else goes on in my little producer world. I'll have plenty of time.

Oh, and of course, my first week as a real news producer, my boss/news director is going to be anchoring my show. So yay for me, not only will he be there to witness it and to critique, but he'll be a part of the whole thing.

Till next time

Ciao!!!!

Moving Day

So, moving day was Friday the 15th. Didn't get much sleep the night before b/c I was excited, and packing. But I didn't really have a slow start. Again, I was excited, this being my real first apartment, and my real first time being on my own, so it only took me 5 minutes to get out of bed.

I go with my mother to pick up her paycheck at her new job, then the U-Haul place. And I mean, they just let anybody rent out U-Hauls. I can't remember the last time (or if there ever was a time) that I went into a business, and the salesman was smoking. It's a good thing I don't have asthma or I would've had a really bad time in that place. But I got my brand new truck (according to Dave, it's brand new b/c it only had 10,000 miles) and went home to fill it up with my belongings. I originally wanted to get a 10', thinking that that would be more than enough for my stuff, but actually the 14' was filled practically to the brim.

So the drive up here was interesting. It was my first time driving a big truck, and then not really knowing where I was going the 2 previous times I had been up here, didn't help either. But we made it (I absolutely LOVE Google Earth and its directions, right on the money!!!! I highly recommend using Google, for directions, it is so choice! Remember that?)

Anywho, oh, on the way up there, about an hour away actually, the leasing agent calls me and asks where I am. And I'm like 'oh I'm about an hour away,' and she's like 'ohhhhhhhhh great. I don't know how to tell you this, but the apartment I had you down for isn't ready, it's actually 123 that's ready, not 321. Did you wanna go ahead and move into 123? It's really nice, it's upstairs, I can show it to you." And I'm thinking 'ummmmm no, I already had the electricity turned on, and I wanted a downstairs apartment.' So I ask her how long it would take to have the apartment I was originally told I would get ready, and she put me on hold for a while, and said to give them until 5. So it was 2 at the time, we still had an hour to go, and I had other stuff to do once I got there anyway, so I said I could live with that.

So we get there, park the U-Haul, and the housekeeper tells us they just shampooed the carpet, and to give it about an hour to dry. No problem, we go and get my washer and dryer, drive around town for a little bit, and come back about an hour later, b/c it's about to get dark, and we're not trying to move in the dark. So it took about 2 1/2 hours to finish packing and loading the truck, it took 45 minutes to unload, b/c we were tired and wanted to get it over with. And we ended up taking the U-Haul back that night, even though I had it till Sunday.

So my first night in my apartment was okay. My mom took me to get groceries, and shelf lining material, and some blackout curtains for my windows, since I'll be working at night, and sleeping during the day. And they really do help. And for the most part, at least for now, it's pretty quiet there. we'll see in a few months though. But I still have a lot of unpacking to do, and some more decorating to do. Will have another update soon.

Tuesday, December 12, 2006

Chapter 4

So I guess this is chapter 4 of my life. Today is my last day at the job I've had for a little over 2 years. I'm moving on in my career, not exactly where I wanted to be (or at least what I wanted to do), but I'm going to make the most of it and do the best I can.

I love my co-workers (well former as of 10:34:20 tonight). They brought in a cake, and gave me a card, and had so many well wishes. And I had to make a speech on the spot. But I'm really going to miss them. I'm going to miss this station, this town. But I feel like I won't really be away and out on my own b/c I'll try to come home every weekend. But we'll see how things turn out.