The week before the turkey...

This weekend at the internship, I showed my resume tape to Natalie Morales. First of all, she’s amazing. She’s so much more than a “talking head.” She’s put in her time at small stations where she did everything herself. She’s very intelligent about the business and passionate for story telling. And plus—she’s just such a nice person! Anyway, she gave me some more good feedback on my tape—some makeup tips, and yet again, the tracking issue. That’s been drilled into me so much recently that I think that’ll be a major focus for me when I get back to school. She also said to not be afraid to over exaggerate emotion/facial expressions since TV is 2 dimensional and a lot can get lost in that.

The other night, a transformer blew up near my house. The entire area lost power for a long time. It felt like breaking news—I heard the boom and saw the sparks and lights and immediately jumped in the car to go check it out and get some digital pix! I’m obviously aching for some breaking news excitement!

But anyway, the lack of electricity gave me some time to think about my senior project. I managed to write out an outline of Intern Tips. I could probably write a book! I’m thinking that for my presentation I’ll just do a power point with pictures and some actual experiences from my internship. It’s not all that exciting, I’ll give you that, but it’s easy to make nice and organized, which I like. I’ll have to be careful, though, that it doesn’t become a story time, where I just go on and on about the cool things that happened. I want it to actually be useful.

Next up for me: Last weekend of the internship (sad face), keep working on the senior project, work on the alumni project, fix up my paper resume, put together all the info I’ve gotten from my internship (contacts, advice, etc), survive Thanksgiving, stay afloat in my classes……and that’s all I can think of for now.