Fun Plus D

September 29th 2007 by E..

Today was one of those worky days…

I was at the board for a good long while today for XPN’s Fund Drive…it makes sense to explain the setup a little bit before I go on…XPN’s building has 3 floors, with the office area on the top floor, and the broadcast studios on the bottom…usually, the DJ’s do their shows (myself included) downstairs, since that’s where the control boards and computers that the music comes from are located (naturally)…for the fund drive, however, the DJ’s are upstairs in a conference room, where all the volunteers taking pledges are…this way, not only can they get up-to-the-minute information on how close they are to reaching their hourly goals, but they can also get the sounds of ringing phones and clapping volunteers in the background (which is very good to have for this sort of thing)…that might be all well and good, except that they need someone to push all the buttons downstairs that the DJ’s would usually do in order to play the music, spots, etc…that’s where I come in…

I came in to cover fo the end of Bob Bumbera’s shift (he’s the news and weather guy from the morning show), as he had other work that had to get done…Michaela Majoun, the morning show host, is upstairs about to do her last pitching break of the day…there’s also a pair of webcams so that the DJ’s can see the board-op and vice-versa…so we’re talking over the off-air line, and when she gets on the air, she starts what sounds like a regular fund drive pitch…except that it’s about me…she goes on to thank me for manning the board, and talks all about how I’m such a loyal worker there, how I started as a high school senior and am now a sophomore at Temple, and how I am another reason why people should pledge: because I represent the next generation of XPN staff…as glitterglamgirl

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