My New Project

Kidd was just talking about "I feel fat days" a little while ago. Wow, can I relate. It has nothing to do with actual fatness, does it? It's more about how a girl feels one day compared to the day before. For me today, so far so good. I just ate a peach and a handful of peanuts last night after I worked out so I have no reason to feel stuffed and bloated. (Although I did eat an entire package of Louis Rich chicken breast strips and some garlic new potatoes for lunch yesterday. Hopefully I left most of that on the treadmill.) I don't like eating big meals late in the day, and I've really grown to love the empty feeling that goes with going to bed a little hungry. Seriously. I used to be fat and I was full most of the time, and this is way more comfortable.

I'm getting an intern named Thomas today. Actually he's more of a protege, but using that word makes me the mentor and it implies that I know what I'm doing and that I'm somehow qualified to take this person under my wing. I've been in radio for eleven years, but I still learn something new about it every day and I feel like a novice most of the time--especially working with Kidd. He is so good at what he does. He sets the bar high. Since I'll have a mentor-protege relationship with this new project I just have to meet with him one a week for an hour to answer his questions and give him advice. I can handle that. I hope I don't mess him up though.

Here's my first piece of advice for Thomas: if you get hungry while you're on the air, make sure you leave yourself at least a minute between the time you take your last bite and the time you need to turn on the mic, cuz if you don't you'll burp. Not that that has happened to me or anything. I'm just sayin'. And don't eat in the studio! Leave your burger and fries on the table right outside the Kiss FM door, or czars of expensive equipment will slap you silly. And if you start choking on the air and need water...too bad. Drinks can't be in the studio near the control board...cotton mouth be danged. We may have full-sized Whataburger menus hanging in the studio (for what reason I don't really know--it's a Billy the Kidd thing I think), but that doesn't mean the taquitos and cokes can follow. There is an enormous bean bag in the studio if you should feel like taking a nap during your shift. (This came in handy last Saturday when I had the near-death experience with the migraine.) So you can't eat in the studio but you can sleep.

So much of radio happens off the air. It's funny like that. Welcome to the madness Thomas!