delinquent

I’m a blogging delinquent.
This I know.
I have many happy things to share, including this (notice the photo credit). Shakira is tiny, but stunning in person and she smiled the entire time she was in the radio studio. (And no I didn’t ask her to shake her hips or if they ‘don’t lie’ as many a [...]

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they used it

Morning Edition used my voiceover. You can listen to it here.
It’s at about 2 minutes and 40 seconds.
Ha!

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radio voice

At 7 p.m. tonight I was sitting at my desk getting ready to leave for the evening when a Morning Edition producer came in search of a woman to do a voice over. I shrugged and said ‘Sure’ (also careful to say ‘I don’t have any voice training’) and went into a small studio. My voice is [...]

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internet connection

For the past year, I’ve been “borrowing” my neighbors Internet service. While my roommate can still get on, I suddenly can’t connect, no matter how many times I try (this is the reason for the radio silence). I have tried at least 46 times. I also don’t have a second in my work day to [...]

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i found money — again

Last night I watched the N. Carolina/Kansas NCAA Final Four basketball game with a group of friends at an apartment with a wide screen high definition T.V. We ate sausage and pepperoni pizza and soft homemade chocolate chip cookies courtesy of S. and I observed my friends bite their nails and put their hands [...]

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this rocks

Today, my job was to learn how to use Dalet, a system to produce, cut and listen to audio clips. It’s the program correspondents and reporters use to put together shows.
I also watched the trailer and clips for Sarah Jessica Parker’s new movie “Smart People” (also with Juno’s Ellen Page and Dennis Quaid), picked out [...]

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hello birdie

A bird has decided to nest on the narrow ledge above our red front door. My roommate, annoyed that it was pooping so much where we walk daily, tried to scare it away by standing on a porch chair and putting random things on the ledge, like my turquoise five-pound hand weights, candles and a [...]

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