"If I turn into another dig me up from under what is covering the better part of me. Sing this song, remind me that we'll always have each other, when everything else is gone."



Last Monday, the Journalism New Media students that signed up to volunteer for the municipal elections, headed to City TV to make a contribution. Or at least that was the idea. Originally we were set to arrive at 2pm, then 10:30am, then 7am. Why the dramatic time changes you ask? Good question. I still, after having experienced the event first hand, have no logical answer to this question. After a 5am wake up time and boarding the GO Train by 6:30 our classmates entered the City TV building at 7:30am. After being filed into a conference room we all waited, half asleep for our assignments. A few people were set off in groups of two to cover the larger candidates, such as David Miller. I however, was on my own with reporter Dwight Drummond, a camera man named Afredo (Alfie for short), tech guy Martin, and floor director, Shannon. We rode in the City truck to Kensington Market, not far from City’s Queen street building. We set up shop in a restaurant called the Supermarket. From that point on the day started to lose its luster. I believe we arrived around 9:30am and from that point on we basically sat on our asses. I went to the truck once to retrieve camera batteries. Dwight Drummond met us at the location and practiced for his noon run through and then we layed around, slept in restaurant booths and ate at a terribly bad (we all agreed on this fact afterwards) pizza place a short walk from the Supermarket, which doesn’t open until late afternoon. After the noon 30 second bradcast there was another practice at 3pm and we went to air at 6pm. I’ve never been so bored and on top of that so COLD in my entire life. The place was freezing, I felt like a human ice cube. However, the member in our riding, Adam Vaughan won the votes in ward and we were fortunate enough to be present for his 9pmish arrival to his victory party and snag the first on camera interview with him since the votes had been counted. There were a lot of people that had come into the Supermarket by then and the energy was high, so overall the experience was somewhat memorable for me. I would however, would have liked to have been of a bit more use and less bored out of my mind, but it’s all part of the learning experience right?

Note: today is the Incubus pre-sale for the February Toronto show, yahhhh!