Current mood:	sleepy
Current music:	metronymy

I'm about to start week two of the radio internship. The newsroom is constantly churning with activity. The staff are all fairly young, skittish, and curse often. The deadlines are insane. The stories don't go longer than 45 seconds. This is "infotainment." Nobody takes lunch breaks, so I don't either.

People record their voicers in studio - there's no private sound booth or anything, which I think is both bewildering and fantastic. So basically, as you hear "I'M BLAH BLAH BLAH REPORTING FROM HALIFAX" boom across the room, it heralds SHUT THE FUCK UP TIME. I have been doing a lot of writing, audio editing and recorded one story for air but I have no idea if they used it. I was told that my performance was "too CBC" and that I needed to re-read at twice the pace. I phoned the RCMP and got a break on a story on a missing woman, which will sound paltry to everyone else but gave me a queer little thrill. Overall I'm loving this internship. I am beginning to think I'm not a CBC person and I'm glad I wasn't one of the many journalism students jockeying for an internship there...I'm enjoying this breakneck pace.

If this were NewsRadio, my news director with the cold eyes and weird laugh would totally be Dave Foley, and the hotshot Phil Hartman character is completely this man. He makes jokes about grabbing underage tit. He's also hilarious, deceptively intelligent and was one of the first people to introduce himself to me. You can read in the Wiki article about how he tore Nova Scotia's premier a new asshole on air about his marital infidelities. He's interviewing Michael Ignatieff at the station tomorrow - I wish I could be there to witness it.

Other than that, not much new. Eric got extensions on all his festival submission deadlines which is wicked awesome and means he doesn't have to keep killing himself. The Sylvan I work at on Saturdays is completely falling to shit and succumbing to nightmarish levels of disorganization, so I'm looking for another job. Haligoons? Anyone know of some jobs kicking about? Help a friend. I would really love to work at this the best video store i've ever seen but I don't know....it's minimum wage, but it also offers unlimited rentals.....oh jesus....

You know, you think you're at that point where you're beyond taking jobs like this....then you realize you're deluding yourself...."Don't think you're any better than this" - Geordie. Wise words from a redhead.

I'm really looking forward to coming home for Christmas and seeing my nephyah. I also hope to see a lot of YOU...can this be done?