It's Tuesday night and I cannot fall asleep. It has been one of those days where you have so much on your mind, you feel like your batteries just need to be taken out and put back in tomorrow. Okay, bad analogy but you get the idea.
Monday I worked at CMT, doing some final touches on projects I have started for the department. I told my advisor my last day would be April 25th, and she said she was going to cry. I am going to miss her! I told her that I would be doing an internship in Production at CMT this summer, and that if she still needed me to come up and do things for her I would.
That night, the interns and I went out for a casual dinner at a place called PM near Belmont. Murph, the intern from Georgia, is moving back home in a few weeks, so we have been trying to get some extra bonding in lately. As I looked around the table last night, it was almost comical how different we all are, yet how we all have one thing in common. We are all driven, creative girls who are trying to make it in the entertainment industry in some form or fashion. At this age, that can seem like a whole lot considering that is what is so heavy on all of our minds. Friday we are having an intern bonding night out on the town in Nashville because Murph hasn't really gotten to see the night life Nashville has to offer...she has been living with her grandparents during her internship at CMT. I should have some funny stories from that night!
Today I had school all day and then I went to church with a friend. I love friends that you have a spiritual connection with right off. Having christian friends is so important at this age because so much is up in the air, and their is so much to be making decisions about. It helps to be able to talk to someone that believes in the same things you do, and it makes you feel close with someone so much faster.
I hope everyone is having a great week, and I hope that I will have some exciting stories to share from CMT on Friday! Goodnight.
Quiet your mind...and open your heart.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Friday, March 28, 2008
Hustle and Bustle
Its Friday! I drove to CMT this morning on an overcast day and arrived to allot of boxes and commotion. Our department is giving the 4th floor lobby a face lift and so everyone was pitching in to get the job done. It is all apart of getting ready for the CMT Awards. The project will take all week, and the big reveal is April 7th. I helped black out all the windows today in the lobby so that no one can see what is being done until the big reveal. I love how everything at CMT is a big production-its right up my alley.
The new and improved lobby will be getting cork floors, a paint job, brand new furniture and draperies, as well as a new steel CMT logo mounted at the front desk. They wanted it to have an old loft feel and I think it is going to look great. Today it was kind of creepy because we had taken out all of the furniture and blacked out the windows, and guests were still being taken up through the lobby. Poor Phil Stacey (from American Idol) was escorted through the madness today. I was sure to tell him that this is not what CMT usually looks like. To add to the madness, one of my co-workers had to bring his adorable 3 and 6 year old daughters to work today and they accompanied us at the front desk. But that is what I love about CMT and country music for that matter, - everyone is so layed-back, and unconcerned with being overly professional. It's very refreshing.
Tonight I plan on relaxing after my first week back. I think my sister is going to come up and live here for the summer and take summer school with me. I am so excited because I will have someone that I can show around and drag to all my favorite places in Nashville! It's going to be a great summer. Until next week... have a great weekend! :)
The new and improved lobby will be getting cork floors, a paint job, brand new furniture and draperies, as well as a new steel CMT logo mounted at the front desk. They wanted it to have an old loft feel and I think it is going to look great. Today it was kind of creepy because we had taken out all of the furniture and blacked out the windows, and guests were still being taken up through the lobby. Poor Phil Stacey (from American Idol) was escorted through the madness today. I was sure to tell him that this is not what CMT usually looks like. To add to the madness, one of my co-workers had to bring his adorable 3 and 6 year old daughters to work today and they accompanied us at the front desk. But that is what I love about CMT and country music for that matter, - everyone is so layed-back, and unconcerned with being overly professional. It's very refreshing.
Tonight I plan on relaxing after my first week back. I think my sister is going to come up and live here for the summer and take summer school with me. I am so excited because I will have someone that I can show around and drag to all my favorite places in Nashville! It's going to be a great summer. Until next week... have a great weekend! :)
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
Home Sweet Home
Well, I am back from Spring Break and I had a great time at home. It took me a couple of days to get used to being back in McKinney and not running from one thing to the next- like I do here in Nashville. However, once I got used to it, it was pure bliss. It was beautiful, warm Texas wheather and I got to spend time with my sweet and hilarious High School friends.
Every time I go home and see their smiling faces, I am reminded how blessed I am to still have them in my life. You cannot replace all the memories, and all the things that can be left unsaid and un-explained because they already know so much about you. I went to lunch with two of my girlfriends, we sat on the patio at an eating place in West Village where all my friends live in Dallas. We went to my favorite mall, North Park, complete with a trip to Nordstrom and Sephora-which has become a ritual every time I go home. That night, I met up with some other friends for dinner and allot of laughs. Their is this great mix of personalities with my High School friends that always makes for hilarious moments and conversations which to a bystander would look like a sitcom. Never the less, I am a big believer in the old saying "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, and the other is gold."
The rest of my trip was spent hanging out with my two sisters who magically grew up and became really cool. It is so fun spending time with them now-we are 23, 20, and 18. That seems allot different then 18, 15, and 12 , our ages when I was in High School. I am so thankful to my parents that they didn't move around allot when we were growing up. I love that even though so much has changed in my home town, their is so much that hasn't changed and that is a comforting thing to come home too.
Anyways, enough of the reminiscing. I am back in Nashville and things are going in full-force. I think I landed the Production Internship at CMT this summer, which I am so happy about because I am not ready to leave CMT anytime soon. Plus, I think that department will be such a great fit for what I am interested in. Everything is bustling around CMT with the Awards show coming up in a couple of weeks. I hope that I will have some exciting stories to share from that event! Goodbye for now!
Every time I go home and see their smiling faces, I am reminded how blessed I am to still have them in my life. You cannot replace all the memories, and all the things that can be left unsaid and un-explained because they already know so much about you. I went to lunch with two of my girlfriends, we sat on the patio at an eating place in West Village where all my friends live in Dallas. We went to my favorite mall, North Park, complete with a trip to Nordstrom and Sephora-which has become a ritual every time I go home. That night, I met up with some other friends for dinner and allot of laughs. Their is this great mix of personalities with my High School friends that always makes for hilarious moments and conversations which to a bystander would look like a sitcom. Never the less, I am a big believer in the old saying "Make new friends, but keep the old. One is silver, and the other is gold."
The rest of my trip was spent hanging out with my two sisters who magically grew up and became really cool. It is so fun spending time with them now-we are 23, 20, and 18. That seems allot different then 18, 15, and 12 , our ages when I was in High School. I am so thankful to my parents that they didn't move around allot when we were growing up. I love that even though so much has changed in my home town, their is so much that hasn't changed and that is a comforting thing to come home too.
Anyways, enough of the reminiscing. I am back in Nashville and things are going in full-force. I think I landed the Production Internship at CMT this summer, which I am so happy about because I am not ready to leave CMT anytime soon. Plus, I think that department will be such a great fit for what I am interested in. Everything is bustling around CMT with the Awards show coming up in a couple of weeks. I hope that I will have some exciting stories to share from that event! Goodbye for now!
Thursday, March 13, 2008
Texas On My Mind
It's the end of another week and I am getting ready to go home for Spring Break. Since I've been here, I keep Texas way in the back of my mind in order not to get homesick. But lately, its been slipping up more than usual. It might be because it has been such beautiful whether here lately and it reminds me of home.
This week I have been concentrating on my internship as well as this summer and next semester. I have had allot on my mind. Their are so many things right now that I need to get straight for next year including what summer school courses I am taking, where I am going to live, classes for next fall (my last semester of school) and where I am doing my next internship. Maybe that is why I am ready to go home-I need a breather. Isn't it lovely being a twenty-something?
At CMT right now, my department is working on something called "The Get Trashed Party." Yes, only at CMT do we have parties with titles resembling that of a Fraternity Party. Its not as crazy as it sounds. The Annual CMT Awards Show is April 14th (woo hoo!), and our department is putting on an event to encourage people to clean up their spaces, in order to get ready for all of the big-wig LA people who are coming in to help with the Awards. Since everything has to be fun at CMT, we are rewarding prizes to people with the most trash, and complimentary beverages. I love the idea of people throwing important files away in a drunken stooper-even though that is my imagination, CMT employees would never get that out of hand.
Yesterday I got to help one of the guys in my department make the signs for the event. He is a very talented graphic-designer so it was very neat to get to work with him and see how all of the software works.
I also spoke to the intern-coordinator in Top 20 Countdown/Production yesterday about interning for them in the Fall. It looks promising, but I will have to get back with you when I find out if I got it or not.
This weekend will probably consist of work, packing, and relaxing at my Aunt Sharon's. I cant tell you how excited I am about that. I will get back with you about how Spring Break is going! :)
This week I have been concentrating on my internship as well as this summer and next semester. I have had allot on my mind. Their are so many things right now that I need to get straight for next year including what summer school courses I am taking, where I am going to live, classes for next fall (my last semester of school) and where I am doing my next internship. Maybe that is why I am ready to go home-I need a breather. Isn't it lovely being a twenty-something?
At CMT right now, my department is working on something called "The Get Trashed Party." Yes, only at CMT do we have parties with titles resembling that of a Fraternity Party. Its not as crazy as it sounds. The Annual CMT Awards Show is April 14th (woo hoo!), and our department is putting on an event to encourage people to clean up their spaces, in order to get ready for all of the big-wig LA people who are coming in to help with the Awards. Since everything has to be fun at CMT, we are rewarding prizes to people with the most trash, and complimentary beverages. I love the idea of people throwing important files away in a drunken stooper-even though that is my imagination, CMT employees would never get that out of hand.
Yesterday I got to help one of the guys in my department make the signs for the event. He is a very talented graphic-designer so it was very neat to get to work with him and see how all of the software works.
I also spoke to the intern-coordinator in Top 20 Countdown/Production yesterday about interning for them in the Fall. It looks promising, but I will have to get back with you when I find out if I got it or not.
This weekend will probably consist of work, packing, and relaxing at my Aunt Sharon's. I cant tell you how excited I am about that. I will get back with you about how Spring Break is going! :)
Sunday, March 9, 2008
Birthday Bliss
Wow. What a great weekend. I love birthdays because they remind you how many people love you and how blessed you are. Friday was my 23rd birthday, and it was one of my best birthdays yet! The best part is that I was totally not expecting it.
It all started Thursday night at my Aunt Sharon's with dinner, birthday cake, and all my favorite people in Nashville. As if that weren't enough, I got to work at CMT on my birthday and my department treated me to a birthday lunch. Afterwards, I returned home, expecting a qainte birthday dinner with my cousin/roommate. Instead, I was surprised with my cousin Lauren coming to visit! I had no idea! I think it was evident with the "shut up!" and pointing I was doing outside the condo's window.
The night began with pedicures, and then we headed over to one of my new favorite restaurants in Nashville-Firefly. I had the most wonderful salmon and a glass of wine, and then we went to a late movie. To cap it all off, it snowed the most it has all winter that night, and I woke up to a winter wonderland.
I thought I would be sad that I didn't get to spend my birthday with family and friends from home like I was supposed to-but I wasn't in the least. I have friends and family here that I love and if my 23rd birthday is any indication of how this year will be, it is going to be a great one!
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
It all started Thursday night at my Aunt Sharon's with dinner, birthday cake, and all my favorite people in Nashville. As if that weren't enough, I got to work at CMT on my birthday and my department treated me to a birthday lunch. Afterwards, I returned home, expecting a qainte birthday dinner with my cousin/roommate. Instead, I was surprised with my cousin Lauren coming to visit! I had no idea! I think it was evident with the "shut up!" and pointing I was doing outside the condo's window.
The night began with pedicures, and then we headed over to one of my new favorite restaurants in Nashville-Firefly. I had the most wonderful salmon and a glass of wine, and then we went to a late movie. To cap it all off, it snowed the most it has all winter that night, and I woke up to a winter wonderland.
I thought I would be sad that I didn't get to spend my birthday with family and friends from home like I was supposed to-but I wasn't in the least. I have friends and family here that I love and if my 23rd birthday is any indication of how this year will be, it is going to be a great one!
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy: they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Today at CMT
Today was quite the day at CMT. I got in the elevator as I do every morning and pushed the button to go to the 2nd floor. The elevator stopped at the lobby, and immediately a bunch of people with "talent escort" badges stepped inside. Trailing behind with her perfect blond curls and her black alligator skin boots was the adorable and talented T. Swift!
We were all smooshed to capacity in the elevator, and I joined Taylor and what seemed to be her publicist in a conversation about where she got her boots. I smiled pleasantly and then stepped out to the 2nd floor and let Taylor and her entourage ride up to the studio on the 4th. Ever since I had an embarrassing moment with a certain Chuck W., I am a little hesitant to talk to famous people. I figure it is better to just smile then try to have a conversation with them and have it come out as a nervous "blah blah blah"...let me explain.
I met Chuck W., an up-and-coming attractive country singer, at the Dallas airport when I was going home for Christmas Break. We chatted at the baggage claim, and at the time I had no clue he was famous. Over Christmas Break, it became apparent he was famous as I began to hear his song on the radio 24/7. When I got back to Nashville and started at CMT, I mentioned to a girl in my department that I met Chuck at the airport and I thought he was cute. Bad Idea! My whole department began conspiring a plan in order for me to "bump into him" again. He was scheduled to host Top 20 Countdown the following week, so we arranged for me to strategically be down there for the shoot. After all the build up, it was necessary that I say something to him as he walked out. After about a 1/2 hour of nonchalantly sitting behind the camera during his interview, he passed by me and I said "blah blah blah." I really couldn't tell you what I said actually...it was one of those moments.
I thought Chuck and I's future was over at that moment-but today a girl in radio stopped me in the hall as I was leaving. She interviewed him today and said that Heather (the girl in my department) had told her I had a crush on him. In the interview, she asked him if it was weird that all the girls think he is so cute now. She also told him that one of the CMT interns has a crush on him. He said "I think I met her, the one with the long brown hair?" I guess my blubbering gave it away.
Anyways, to make a long story short I think I need a little more practise before I feel completely comfortable around famous people. Especially young, attractive male country singers.
Seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty-Is the face in the mirror looking back at you-You walk around here thinking you're not pretty-But that's not true, cause I know you...Hold on, baby, you're losing it-The water's high, you're jumping into it-And letting go... and no one knows-You cry, but you don't tell anyone-That you might not be the golden one-And you're tied together with a smile-But you're coming undone
Tied together with a smile,Taylor Swift
We were all smooshed to capacity in the elevator, and I joined Taylor and what seemed to be her publicist in a conversation about where she got her boots. I smiled pleasantly and then stepped out to the 2nd floor and let Taylor and her entourage ride up to the studio on the 4th. Ever since I had an embarrassing moment with a certain Chuck W., I am a little hesitant to talk to famous people. I figure it is better to just smile then try to have a conversation with them and have it come out as a nervous "blah blah blah"...let me explain.
I met Chuck W., an up-and-coming attractive country singer, at the Dallas airport when I was going home for Christmas Break. We chatted at the baggage claim, and at the time I had no clue he was famous. Over Christmas Break, it became apparent he was famous as I began to hear his song on the radio 24/7. When I got back to Nashville and started at CMT, I mentioned to a girl in my department that I met Chuck at the airport and I thought he was cute. Bad Idea! My whole department began conspiring a plan in order for me to "bump into him" again. He was scheduled to host Top 20 Countdown the following week, so we arranged for me to strategically be down there for the shoot. After all the build up, it was necessary that I say something to him as he walked out. After about a 1/2 hour of nonchalantly sitting behind the camera during his interview, he passed by me and I said "blah blah blah." I really couldn't tell you what I said actually...it was one of those moments.
I thought Chuck and I's future was over at that moment-but today a girl in radio stopped me in the hall as I was leaving. She interviewed him today and said that Heather (the girl in my department) had told her I had a crush on him. In the interview, she asked him if it was weird that all the girls think he is so cute now. She also told him that one of the CMT interns has a crush on him. He said "I think I met her, the one with the long brown hair?" I guess my blubbering gave it away.
Anyways, to make a long story short I think I need a little more practise before I feel completely comfortable around famous people. Especially young, attractive male country singers.
Seems the only one who doesn't see your beauty-Is the face in the mirror looking back at you-You walk around here thinking you're not pretty-But that's not true, cause I know you...Hold on, baby, you're losing it-The water's high, you're jumping into it-And letting go... and no one knows-You cry, but you don't tell anyone-That you might not be the golden one-And you're tied together with a smile-But you're coming undone
Tied together with a smile,Taylor Swift
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
Just An Ordinary Day
It is Tuesday afternoon and I have to tell you, Tennessee wheather is crazy! Over the weekend it was 70 degrees, yesterday their were winds that literally pushed you over, last night their were thunderstorms, and now I think it is going to snow again! My Texas wardrobe really is not up for this.
On Friday I went and saw The Other Boleyn Girl with my cousins and my Aunt. I loved it because I love movies from that time period. I love the passion, and the drama. Saturday I worked at Katy's Hallmark, and then Saturday night I crashed after a long week. Last week included way to many tests and deadlines to mention. Sunday morning I went to the Pancake Pantry with a friend and that made everything better. It is this great place downtown that has the most wonderful sweet potato pancakes you will ever eat. Their is always a line around the corner, but it is so worth it. I think it is the only place I know of that puts complimentary coffee outside for the people waiting in line. That is so Nashville.
Yesterday at CMT, I got to work the front desk again. I like working the front desk because you get to talk to everyone as they wait for the elevator. I have learned so much just by chatting with people as they walk by. I think it is so important to ask people their story and what they do on a daily basis for their job. This is especially true for me at CMT because I am interested in so many different positions. I think I have narrowed it down to Production/Top 20 though. Some of the interns and I snuck down to the studio yesterday and I was just so enthralled with every aspect of it. The cameras, the lighting, the backdrops, the script...I really wanted to stay but one of the camera guys was filming us over the "in house feed" which everyone in the building can see- so we had to leave in fear that are supervisors had spotted us.
Anyways, this Friday is my 23rd birthday and in two weeks I am going home for Spring Break- so I have some fun things to look forward to. Until Friday...have a great week!
On Friday I went and saw The Other Boleyn Girl with my cousins and my Aunt. I loved it because I love movies from that time period. I love the passion, and the drama. Saturday I worked at Katy's Hallmark, and then Saturday night I crashed after a long week. Last week included way to many tests and deadlines to mention. Sunday morning I went to the Pancake Pantry with a friend and that made everything better. It is this great place downtown that has the most wonderful sweet potato pancakes you will ever eat. Their is always a line around the corner, but it is so worth it. I think it is the only place I know of that puts complimentary coffee outside for the people waiting in line. That is so Nashville.
Yesterday at CMT, I got to work the front desk again. I like working the front desk because you get to talk to everyone as they wait for the elevator. I have learned so much just by chatting with people as they walk by. I think it is so important to ask people their story and what they do on a daily basis for their job. This is especially true for me at CMT because I am interested in so many different positions. I think I have narrowed it down to Production/Top 20 though. Some of the interns and I snuck down to the studio yesterday and I was just so enthralled with every aspect of it. The cameras, the lighting, the backdrops, the script...I really wanted to stay but one of the camera guys was filming us over the "in house feed" which everyone in the building can see- so we had to leave in fear that are supervisors had spotted us.
Anyways, this Friday is my 23rd birthday and in two weeks I am going home for Spring Break- so I have some fun things to look forward to. Until Friday...have a great week!
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