School started up again yesterday without me being at all prepared for it. I don't like starting new things without having tied up he loose ends to previous things; cleaning and organizing the house, finding a job, settling with my schedule, figuring out transportation... I ended up riding my bike to class yesterday and I guess that will be my main mode of transportation. A mile and a half to school at one in the afternoon in 111 degree heat. Good times. I picked up a bus pass too but I haven't tried taking the bus yet. Bus systems kind of freak me out. I'm afraid I'll end up at the wrong place or I'll be late to wherever I'm going, or mugged...it is Tempe you know. Today was my first day at my internship with CBS 5 news. I was there from 12-8, no break really. Although I did spend almost two hours on the computer simply reading the news on the web and browsing through their program Inews. I got to sit in the control room while they shot two news casts and during on news cast an anchor came into the control room to shoot a brief segment and I thought it was pretty cool that I was sitting right there. I learned a lot today, even if it's all basic stuff. But what surprised me most is what I observed about the anchors. The anchors appear to be a bit snobbish in the news room. This one anchor, Diane, froofs her hair a lot, especially during breaks of the show. Anyway, I asked someone at the assignment desk about the anchors because they seemed like outcasts. She said they kind of are. And even reporters can make the mistake of separating themselves from people at the station, taking on all the responsibilities themselves instead of working as a team and seeking and taking advice from others. It was very strange to really see all the behind-the-scenes work. Kind of puts a new spin on things when you watch the news at home. I also changed my mind a little about CBS and 12 news. 12 news is not as prestigious as they make themselves out to be. In fact, during my lame two hours of news surfing, I found numerous errors and a couple horribly written stories on the 12 news website. And the person I had talked with about the anchors said that she had worked for 12 news --said that it had been her dream job to achieve and she had been upset to move to channel 5 -- but now that she was with channel 5 she loved it so much more and would never go back. I found that interesting. I guess CBS just has a better team all around and not just a couple of awesome anchors. So I've been riding my bike a lot, sweating a ton, and eating absolute crap. I didn't get a chance to take my dinner break tonight so by the time I got home around 8:30, In and Out Burger sounded pretty amazing. I got home to find all my house mates sitting on the couch, watching the finale of America's Got Talent. Happy to report the ventriloquist guy won. I was rooting for him. It was nice sitting down with everyone but none of them seem to have anything to do now and it's hard to pull my self away to get things done. It's almost not fair that they can all sit there watching the Science Channel while I have to "take care of stuff". But I signed up for this gig, I chose not to have a life this semester... Now it's almost 11 and I'm so ready to call it a night. But I feel like I have to at least attempt to put my world in order. I feel dizzy when I don't know exactly what I'm doing when or when things sneak up on me. I like to be on top of things. Kris will be sleeping in his own room tonight (for the first time since we moved in). It's nice sharing space with him but if there's one thing I've discovered about myself and school is that I need my territory. I need to be able to wake up in the morning and turn on the lights and the news. And I get very irritated if someone wakes me when I don't have to get up yet. Jackie was right. I'm very glad we each have our own "cave". And we can always hang out and have "slumber parties" when we want. Tomorrow is going to be another busy day. I have my first interview for a job since I began filling out applications three weeks ago. The interview is for a clothing company which isn't financially promising, but hopefully I can manage well enough from working there and putting in a few hours taking care of Mackenzie. I really like going there and taking care of her in the mornings. It's such a good gig. I suppose it helps that it's my niece so I'm always happy to go to work and see her. : D It's also my first day at my photojournalism class. I missed it yesterday because of my internship meeting. I think I'll be late to it because of my internship but at least I'll make it. This morning I had broadcast writing. It's a 7:40 class, which sucks, but it's also kind of nice right now because it's so dang hot and I have to ride my bike to class. It's also a small class and our main focus is writing for radio and we're going to be doing a lot of radio stuff like making packages and eventually doing a news show and since I already have that experience, I think this should be a fairly easy, very fun class. I made it known to my teacher that I was experienced there and he said we may be leaning on me a bit to learn the computer stuff (meaning Protools). So right away I'm the annoying know-it-all. lol There's a girl like that at my internship. She's one of those really obnoxious girls who's overly friendly and polite and always has a question and immediately tries to look important and knowledgeable. Whatev. Anyway, it's getting later and I've got "stuff". And sleep. Meanwhile everyone else (including Andrew who got here at about 10:30) is watching Survivor Guy or whatever. Moootivation!!! Carrie