yesterday was one of those too hot/too caffeinated to sleep days.  rather than getting up and doing handstands and backbends, i surfed the internet and sent out random emails at two and  three am.  somehow it never occurs to me that when i can't sleep, i should try anyway.  i figure if i'm up i'm up.  i am having the biggest cup of coffee this ( Read more... )

[another of yesterday's emails to the Russian.  my show's been on friday evenings this summer.  i was at the station on saturday for staffing hours, engineering a sports broadcast.  we were supposed to air both a home volleyball game and an away football game, but there were some shenanigans with media access at the foreign football field, so ( Read more... )

1) My printer seems to be kaput, and dad's printer seems not to like printing entire pages (so skips lines at random). I'd intended to print some stuff at the station after my show. But re-filing took a long time (I decided to play a lot of punk so had to pull a lot of CDs since the average punk song seems to be about 90-120 seconds long), and I ( Read more... )

Was just made aware of this apology issued by a newspaper for covering a Ramadan event on 9/11, which sparked a recollection ( Read more... )

Last Saturday was another deadline day: the day of Cousin Aurora's food festival debut, for which I'd agreed to play the role of minion from 11am-7pm ( Read more... )

Today aired the "clips" show (selected readings) that I've been working on for forEVER. By which I mean, about three weeks of actual work and many moons before that of thinking about work ( Read more... )

One of the lessons I try to bear in mind for writing and editing is simple and heart-wrenching: find your very favorite line or phrase; delete it. This, perhaps, can help you remove phrases that are out of step, tone-wise, with everything else on the page. Or maybe it'll keep you from being so enamored with your own clever wordplay that you miss ( Read more... )

I'm at the station now, covering the first portion of a basketball game until someone else gets here. Everything seemed to be fine during pre-game, but right as the game began the vector connection started dropping out. The CE had already left, but one of the junior engineers (students, minions, whatever you want to call them... this particular ( Read more... )

And then just now the vector lost its connection. So I threw on a PSA and then a CD and re-dialed ( Read more... )

Despite my resolution to the contrary, I find myself back at the radio station less than a week after my last visit, once again engineering a sports broadcast. And I'm posting while on duty because I want a pat on the back ( Read more... )