Week 12

Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014

Start: 9:45am
End: 5:00pm
Time: 7.25 hrs.

     Today was the first typical day in a while! When I came into the office, Jane wasn't there because her recital is tomorrow. Even last week she was restraining from talking to keep her vocal chords as undamaged as possible before her recital. Thank goodness I don't have to do that as a clarinetist! Nonetheless, I'm very excited to watch Jane's recital tomorrow, I'm sure it will be amazing.

     Anyway, I came into the office and was assigned to finish up the  DVD's from last week. Unfortunately, they were done last week, but the lecturer decided that he wanted more videos so that meant that I had to make new DVD's. Since the rendering and reformatting of the videos took a while, I had to sit at my desk with not much to do but wait for them to finish rendering but once that was over, Stuart checked all of the DVD's again and was happy with the end result.

     I headed to a social media meeting at 1pm and it was honestly the usual. We talked about what we were planning on posting this week and we're trying to get some series started for 2015-- our ideas were Opera After Dark, Opera Haikus, and Met Guild History Fun Facts.

     There was no formal Community Engagement Meeting afterwards, but a few of us did meet in the Quad (a small cubicle area in the back of the office) for a pow wow meeting for volunteer party next week. It was short, sweet, and very efficient. Sadly I won't be able to go to the volunteer party since it's on a Thursday but oh well, I'm sure that it'll go along very well!

     After the meeting I had a short break then I got to go on a backstage tour! My tour guide's name was Lois and she was really nice. The tour itself was amazing and I learned a lot about the opera house! I'm really thankful for all of the opportunities I have here at this internship! And fun fact: at the end of the tour, Lois told us that it was a symbol of good luck to find a bent nail on the floor of the Met Carpentry room, and I found one and got to keep it!