Thursday

One of the better days of the week, simply because I got to leave the office for a while. I've been working on a piece for Dance Spirit magazine on one of the girls who was trying out for the Knicks City Dancers. Today was the final day of tryouts, the final day of 'boot camp' where only the best and the hottest survive. And they did... well at least some of them, but that's beside the point. I've been using a tape recorder and recording brief little interviews with Christy, the girl that I've been following. She made the team and was very excited. It kind of made me jealous because even though there's no way that at this point in time I could do what they all did to be on that team, I know the feeling they felt. The chosen feeling. I miss it sometimes? Or really I just miss the dancing aspect, but that's the sacrifice I make to succeed in the world of futureness. Speaking of futureness, I received an email this morning telling me that I have been approved for a parliament internship for while I'm in London. Now THAT will be an amazing experience especially considering the political environment of 2009. Everything is turmoil and although that's awful, I'm going to be able to capitalize on the misery of the world by witnessing how the most important governing body in the history of Great Britain opreates and deals with it. EXCITEMENT! Though this is a blog about my internship, so let's not digress too much. Although the days have been slow, the lights have been bright, and the mornings have been... mornings... I'm happy I've done this. I'm sticking to the idea still that I do not want to do PR as much anymore. I think working in a boutique firm would be one thing. But this is just so monotonous and tedious... staring down blog entries, stalking cameras, praying before bedtime that a player doesn't make a gaffe... I want to be the guy catching the player making the gaffe... not the one picking up the pieces. Maybe things will change and as the second half of my internship falls into place I'll realize my place in the sports PR world. I just think that the marketing aspect, like what ISP Sports does in Winston, or the journalist aspect, like what my beloved Erin Andrews does, is what I want. I need to be there, not here picking up after what happened there. You know?