This week was intense. For the first time, I felt the struggle of trying to be several things at once: Mom, wife, DJ, teacher (sort of), etc. I think that mostly had something to do with Monday....
Monday I went into the station looking forward to a day of data entry/editing. Or something like that. I always love Mondays because I know I still have five days to find enough things to talk about on-air for the weekend. On Monday, the phone rang at the station (as it often does) while I was working on some intern-y stuff, and Josh handed it off to me. It was Dice. Letting me know that he was on his way in, but also that Jen was off all next week so I'd be covering her shift.
All week. Five days. Four hours. I immediately ditched intern-y work and starting randomly writing things down using a pen I had to steal from Sara's desk--which by the way, she completely noticed. :)
Anyway. Factor in my husband's less than stellar work schedule, and I found myself constantly writing down show prep and coming into the station on Thursday and Friday in order to pull off next week.
It was fun. I don't want to say how fun it is, because Your Friend Jen is an excellent DJ and I would never want to have her shift permanently, but it was really fun to prep for a show happening in the middle of a weekday. In a strange way, I felt like I was reintroducing myself to the audience, simply because I'm so used to my weekends. Just little stuff like actually explaining who I was and that Jen WOULD be back, and then other stuff like explaining that I had two children instead of just launching into a story about them. I hope it's well received by everyone--especially the people who gave me access to a microphone in the first place. :)
So, it'll be another busy week. And then an even crazier weekend. Because (cue suspenseful music here) BIG TICKET FESTIVAL FINALLY ARRIVES!!!! I am stoked. And I have absolutely no idea what I'll be doing or what'll be going on, but I can't wait. Because I just know it's gonna be awesome. Which pretty much sums up this entire experience so far.
Hey Colette -- so to abbreviate what would be a long story, I finally have access at work to the Fuse streaming (I'm not in your radio dial area), and it happened just before this week of you filling in for Jen. I hadn't heard you DJ before but I wanted to let you know you're doing a fantastic job and I'm glad you sound like you love the folks there and the work you've been doing. Keep it up! God bless!
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