Well, I'm doing really well at these posts but I'm warning you now don't read this if you're in a good mood. This morning has been just awful. So, my story I get it in, even play it on our playback machine everything is just perfect on it. I'm really excited that I was able to make this huge package (I think the biggest we've ever done) and that I was feeling really good about how it turned out. So, first rehearsal, we're sitting there listening and mine comes up at the end well guess what it comes up but freezes then you hear the audio then it freezes again. So I start going crazy I'm sitting in the studio watching the show so I decide to go back to the control room to see what's going on, well the kid putting cueing up the packages accidentally played the version for the website he said no worries it will work just fine totally his fault. I'm like ok, I calm down and go back to the studio. In the process of all this I"m trying to study for this huge test I have coming up in my finance class that, well we all know how I feel about that class. Ok, so we start the show again (we're running near the end of class time so this is the real show) and my package starts, well the video plays just fine but the audio is all crazy. For some reason on the parts I did voice overs you can't hear me (just barely barely) and the parts where I did interviews or was shown in the shot you can. So I'm almost in tears while everyone is trying to say it's ok maybe they can edit it whatever. So class ends and I can't sit there adn worry about it so I go on to study for my finance test. Oh my heck I think this test is going to drop even my overall GPA. It was bad. I was sooo frustrated too because I feel like I study it, but anything math related just doesn't sink in. Well, I decide I cannot eat my 50 cent cup of noodles so I stopped at the Union for a sandwich which made my stomach hurt for some odd reason. Well I decided I needed to just try to make it a better day which I've been working on. Oddly enough I"m editing now stuff for work, but I have little motivation to do it since I had such issues with the editing for my class. Also, I let one of the guys who's working on promoting the college and he knows final cut and has been helping me out borrow the mini DV playback deck I have so he could load his footage on his computer. He returned it today and instead of me keeping it until Friday I took it down to the Communication Lab. Well the lab tech was in there working on the playback machine. Come to find out he's trying to figure out what happened to my package. I told him I checked audio it sounded just fine. He asked if I looked at the levels it had, I admitted I hadn't but he checked and they were for the most part level. He still after working on it couldn't figure out what happened and admitted it wasn't my fault as far as he could tell since he checked and it did seem to work for some reason it just didn't when they did the show. Sooooo, in the end even though it wasn't my fault my package was ruined and I"m the one looking like an idiot. The reason I cared so much is my professor sent this nasty email on Monday which totally almost made the entire class cry (it was bad I almost should post it) just saying how we need to step up and everything. I'm like I'm trying as hard as I possibly can and checked everything I could. So all in all it was a really sucky day, but the Jazz and World Series is on tonight so I'm trying to think positive. I feel a little better knowing at this point there wasn't anything I could do about it. Oh and also just warning you all please dont watch it tomorrow, I'm already embarassed enough.
Well hello again! I feel I"m doing pretty good on my updates they're about to once a week now. So I have Tuesday's "off" I use quotation marks because they are anything but off and doing nothing. I actually can't remember the last time I stayed home all day, I"m not sure if there is a day. Last week I had to be on campus shooting/editing stuff for my story that will air this Thursday night 10:00 channel 9 (thought I'd throw that in there). It's on ballot issues many people may not be aware of. I didn't even come close to finishing it and had to go up on Saturday after the radio show and after I shot stuff for my engineering job for the video I"m doing for them. I was then editing in the library until around 6:00 I believe. I then had to be on campus yesterday at 7:00 am (yes am) and finish up editing. It was a long package, but I feel really good about it. THere are a few spots where I didn't have video to go with what I needed to say to connect stuff, but I used some old shots I had and hopefully it'll be ok. And today Tuesday I'm going to lunch with a friend who just got off his mission, then I may go back up to campus to help with the production of this week's show. My teacher sent out two pretty mean emails about people not having their stuff in and us not having enough stories, so I thought I'd try to help. I have a test in my oh so favorite finance class though so I need to do some studying for that. Oh yeah, and the continuation of last night's crazy rained out game, that was sorta funny though that they actually delayed it. I bet Tampa is like we can move it to our field haha. Anyway, that's been about my life lately running from place to place not quite sure if I'm getting everything done I"m supposed to, but trying hard to. Chalice even commented I"m out of it lately I spilled a diet coke, forgot to remind her about some event (I"m like my families calendar ask any of them including you JJ) I guess I"m just losing my touch :( Oh I went to a grad school fair yesterday. Oddly enough the only schools I talked to were from BYU. I'm still not decided what I want to do yet. It's so expensive taking the tests then applying, when I still haven't yet decided if that's totally what I want to do, but I'm not sure I could come back to school after being off a year or two. Maybe I'll just win the lottery or hit it lucky at the blackjack table in Vegas and not have to worry about anything. Well, I know that one was all over the place, but thought I'd give an update!
Yes, the following pictures our of my little bug with a full size mountain bike in it. No, I was not the mastermind behind it all. So it all started today when I was insanely bored at work and couldn't stand watching another clip of boring engineering (yes they are boring to all the engineers who read this :)) professors. I had been emailing my sister JJ throughout the day and had even gone to her office in the next building over to visit her. Well, she emailed asking if I wanted to go to lunch. Of course I said yes, I want out. We decided to leave like half hour later (which is a good thing this guy had been trying to find me all week to set up a hard drive on my iMac for the video editing program I use) Anyway, that's beside the point. So the problem started when she had her bike but I needed my car to load some camera equipment I had to go pick up at another building on campus. We decided I'd go down to the building (I had to take care of some other things down there too) while she went to get the car so we could load the equipment into it right by the building. I wasn't there for this crazy loading job, you'll have to get her story of it, it was funny when she told it. But she had to load it in three different times trying all sorts of angles. She had to put the entire backseat down and push the passenger chair all the way up. The trunk wouldn't even close either. So now you all can say you saw a full size mountain bike in a bug. I seriously thought she wanted to drive like that too, I still had to put my equipment in there, but luckily we didn't she rode down to where we ate and I drove. Well, that's the story for the day, I'll see what other crazy things can fit in there. Maybe I should look into a bigger car...
As usual and how it always seems I'm sitting in finance class not paying attention. I've only been in here for two minutes, that's what's bad. Be proud of me though I paid attention the entire time on Monday, well most of the time I sent a few emails too. So today in Newsbreak we did a segment outside where they showed how to tailgate. Lucky me I got to be camera operator out there. I had a headset on with the director telling me what to do, but it was still kinda rough on our rehearsal, but the live one went good. It will be on Thursday channel 9 at 10:00 so you can watch and even though I won't be on there anything shown outside is what I was shooting. I will be on the next week doing a story on issues that are on the ballot people may not be aware of. I thought it was 1:45 package, but I just checked the sheet today and she gave me 2:30. That's a huge chunk of time and I'm not sure how well it's going to go. I worked on it all day yesterday from shooting student interviews, interviewing the director of politics here and started to edit it. I think I"m going to go to the zoo get some footage, the Capitol and Tracy Aviary. So needless to say it's a lot more then I was expecting to take on. I wasn't even going to do anything but my teacher was like KayCee have you done a package yet I know you did the interview and wrote another story but you should do a package. So, that's how that got started. Man I feel like this is all confusing cause I hear the professor talking in the background and it's weird to type at the same time. ANyway, the radio show is going just fabulous too. I was up at the Capitol last week doing interviews and working on it daily with editing and other things. Last week was fall break which was nice not going to class, but it feels like the work just piled up. We're now halfway through the semester. Only a semester and a half to go until I graduate! I can hardly believe it somedays. ANd no I still haven't decided what I want to do after haha. Well I better stop writing I feel its all jumbled and makes little sense anyway, but thought I'd give a small update.
So I just typed out this really nice long message to find I wasn't signed in. I had been working with the blog we have for our show and was signed into that account not realizing I didn't sign back in here. Needless to say I lost everything. So maybe if I get over being mad I"ll type it over, until then this is what you get.
I'm back! It hasn't been too long since I wrote, but still long enough. I'm in full swing of things and some days it's just about keeping my head above water. I"m winding down a DFCU, which I'll terribly miss, but it will be very very nice to have that extra time. We also filmed our first Newsbreak show today! You can watch it tomorrow (Thursday) at 10:00 pm on channel 9. I did the piece writing, getting footage and editing on voter registration. You can also see my phone with my shirt sorta on the piece about technology. This next week I"ll be on the show doing a live interview with a student body president. Believe me I"m extremely nervous about it. Hopefully with a week to prepare it'll go smoothly. My life lately is just school and work which is boring stuff so I hate blogging about it. I'm currently eating some nerds waiting for postcards to get in to work so I can start mailing them out. I'm also waiting to work on my big project until they buy the edit software needed for me to do anything. I have this great footage of interviews I've been conducting just waiting to get put together in a package, we'll see hopefully soon. I just took a test today in finance. Not my favorite thing, hopefully I at least pass right? I feel braindead I'm sure something of great importance has happened, but I can't think of it. I guess this ones short and sweet.