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Okay so the radio station is sort of fun. Sort of.
I have been a DJ there before and I really enjoyed that. I was so nervous at first just being on air...it's quite intimidating.
I mean...I'm sure there wasn't a SINGLE person up at 7 a.m. to hear my vocal skills, but it doesn't matter! I did it!

But the news is a bit different.
I have to look at news ideas online then write them for broadcast. Then occasionally the news director will have us go out and get sound bites.
THAT is what's scary.
The one sound bite I've had to get so far was on the economic stimulus package passing in the House. Oh my. My. My.
I mean I really didn't know that much about it. And I had to ask others about how they felt about it. No one really knew anything...or enough to make a sound bite. Plus it was class time so no one was around. It was hard. And it's definitely not an easy task just walking up to people asking them to talk. They're always like "Oh, I don't have time" or "I don't know anything about that." I felt dumb.
Interviewing is not my thing I don't think.

Also, last time I got to record a wrap. I seriously sound like a chick you'd hear if you dialed a certain 1-800 number. I hurried home to make my roommates listen to my first-ever radio news wrap. We laughed.
They, of course, said it was good. It was not.
But I have at least 3 or 4 more times to attempt to sound more professional.
Which I really want to do.


On a completely different level of my life at the moment, tomorrow one of my best friends, Amanda turns 21...FINALLY! Actually she JUST turned 21...like JUST now.
Jessica and I turned the legal drinking age about a year ago. So we've been waiting a good while.
Amanda just took a shot of orange tequila...after she already brushed her teeth. What a trooper.

Well, I need to get off this computer...and by get off the computer I mean post this entry and then find spring break deals.

Later.