3..2..1.. On air!

This week in D-town, my video production class all hands on deck are in the process of getting ready for our first official broadcast. We had one broadcast previously, but only the senior d-town people and our teacher headed it off and it was mostly prerecorded, this one is going to be live. I got put on the tech team specializing in sound. I singed up to be part of tech crew, but in a different area. Honestly I was really scared to be on sound, it felt world's away from what I was familiar, also our teacher kept stressing that if anyone ever mentions how they couldn't hear it was the fault of those in charge of sound.
As I have learned though, how to set up the microphones, do sound checks, fix the volumes etc, it's not as hard as I thought, and even if it was hard I think it was so special (to be able to do it) and it was a great learning experience, move out of my comfort zone and do this thing I was scared about, because I don't think I have had the courage to do something that scares me recently.
On another level i have intensely enjoyed being part of the broadcast team. Working with a group of people who where all enjoying this as intensely as I was, over 30 people working seamlessly to put on this, basically (in my opinion) work of art. I feel in the past few weeks I have been pretty down, not to the point of depression, but not the sheer excitement and joy I felt at the beginning of the year. Just slugging through my routine, getting my work done, turned in, memorizing facts, doing house hold chores, reading (a lot), but not enjoying it, but that one hour in D-town I really enjoyed. Additionally I woke up excited to go to school, to get to work on the project which is practically a foreign concept. You probably am noticing I am now talking in the past tense and that is because I didn't have time to post this entry when I wrote the first part. (yes I could stop now, delete, and rewrite, but why? I like this entry).
Today we had our broadcast. It was awesome! Everything went pretty well, I had just had to laugh through most of it's it's crazy what a random group (I mean we have everything from football jocks to amazing artists on the team) can put together in a 21 minute broadcast. Anyhow here is the link if you want to watch FYI there is NOTHING spiritual about this broadcast (unless you try and think about it in a certain way) but I wanted to share it will all you who are reading my life story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Odh2O0o2GkA&feature=g-all