Wings Over the Pyre - April 10th, 2007

04:26 pm - Heroism

Really, I need to post something, eventually.

Current Mood: tired

08:50 pm - Survivalism

Short version: I survived. And they even let me have a piece of paper that says so.

Somewhat longer version: I'm now the proud owner of a diploma in basic and advanced broadcasting and announcing from the Atlanta Broadcast Institute. At no point did I actually kill anyone, despite any overwhelming desire to do same, nor did I actually burst into flame and immolate, despite it being suggested that I could really use a Valium. The 60min radio show we had as a final actually went off without even the slightest hitch, which I can only lay at the feet of obsessive and hyper-aggressive pre-planning and the truly lazy geek's helper, not over-rehearsing.

There are a few pictures from the graduation, but unfortunately, power to the camera died before more than just a few basic shots could be grabbed. Despite that, somehow I managed to be in a couple of them.

Bugger.

Tomorrow, I'm headed down to Project961 with Swan and Speir to see if they'll actually accept me as an intern. ("The 35 Year Old Intern" sounds like a movie title.) Hopefully, they will and I can start memorizing the manual for the NexGen VoiceTRACing system they use to semi-automate the station.If anyone can become familiar with a complicated, interlaced, multi-node distributed audio database in under three days, it's me. Who's better qualified? Besides, the thing's built on Novel Netware 6.5. How complicated can it be, with a retro underpinning like that? Novel is migrating to SuSE Linux, itself, so I'm already positioned ahead of the curve ...

Regardless, we'll see if I get on. Could be you'll be hearing me on broadcast radio in under 6 months. Not bad for a guy going through the equivalent of a midlife crisis without the 20 year old models, right? (The sports car, I already have.)

Current Mood: determined