Week three of Internship

For the most part my third week as an intern was very relaxed. I only had one interview with the Townsville Brass Broadway left over from the week before which I had to complete, and then a few CD reviews I did in my first week that I wanted to fix up. Ridiculously I stayed up late on Thursday night re-reading reviews from my back issue of Rolling Stone, in an attempt to improve my writing abilities over night. I have no doubt that it worked. When I arrived at the Bulletin I fixed up my first CD review with a psychotic amount of attention! I spent 50 minutes on 170 words - ridiculous! I then got sent a media release by the features editor on a play called "Thursday's child." Things went very smoothly, I rang the number on the press release and the PR woman put me in contact with one of the actors in the play. Fortunately my interviewee was not shy and she gave some great quotes. I had written most of the story before I had even done the interview, so I just had to slot her quotes in and the piece was done. The PR rep also emailed me a great photo so I didn't even have to book a photo session!

The only other story I had was the Townsville Brass Broadway society. Now, I rang them every 20 minutes for the entire day last Friday - having to set up the recorder each time – and got nothing. I was not going to do that today. I rang once, after setting up the recorder, and it went straight to message bank. I decided to ring a second time 20 minutes later, but I didn’t both setting up the recorder, and what do you know! THEY ANSWER THE PHONE!! I then looked rather un-professional, apologising and asking them to hold on while I attach a mic to the phone. Then it turns out that the guys I'm talking to tells me a little bit about the production, but he really doesn't have much to say. Thankfully he promises to put me in contact with someone more informative. The mystery interviewee will call ME soon, he says. I fixed up the remainder of my reviews rather quickly and by now its 2:30pm and my phone has not rung. I decided to write a little blurb from the information I do have, just so I have something.I decided to ring the first bloke again. He apologises and says he forgot but he will ring mystery interviewee right now and I will get a call soon. Alright then...

By 3:15 I still hadn't heard back from the Brass Broadway society, and to be honest I was sort of hoping I won't. I don't really want to stay longer than necessary. Being a uni student = being a waitress so it pretty much goes with out saying that every weekend I am doing just that – waitressing (which I realise isn’t a word but forgive me). So obviously it is nice to have a break between the internship and going to work. However, the universe tends to unfold as it should, plus if they don't ring back the story will just get done by someone else on Monday, or not at all. Pretty sure the universe will continue to unfold either way ;)
I filled in the time by doing another CD review, 4’oclock rolled around and the Brass Broadway mystery interviewee hadn’t called. I wrote an email to my mentor (who was there that day) telling her what was happening with the story, and attaching the little blurb that I had written. I also told the features editor but she didn’t seem overly concerned; and so another week of my internship draws to a close.