"It's not as easy as willing it all to be right, got to be more than hoping it's right, I want to hear you laugh like you really mean it, collapse into me tired with joy..."

This has indeed been an interesting first three days of second term, and here’s why. Monday’s class of Current Affairs (see previous blogs to reaffirm my passionate despise of the course and primarily, the teacher himself). Our class trudged on down to Toronto to the CBC building to see Kenton in his place of work because apparently he’s under some drastic time constraints for his latest assignment. His first words to us were that while his editor friend told us our final projects from last term were some of the best he had seen come out of the class, he wanted to ensure us all that, it was in fact not true and our grades will reflect that. Awesome! Sadly I think I have become impervious to his constant ridicule, sad but true, I’m getting used to his abrasive, borderline insulting manner.

Yesterday was slightly more interesting, I’m taking a mandatory Media Theory course this term which is taking back to my University days of hell involving Chomsky and Baudrillard, etc. I’ve never been fantastic at the whole theory thing, but I managed to scrape by and get my degree, so hopefully I can pull something out of my ass for this term as well.

I started my volunteering at Rogers Cable 10 in Mississauga as well. The evening I signed up for is a live airing of the program, ME TV where people in the area come in and talk about local interests. Last night’s had a local singer who won some Mississauga talent competition for 2006, some impersonator, and some little girls’ hockey team. While perhaps not the most interesting piece of television I ever viewed, for a volunteer position at a local cable station, I found it rather enjoyable. I was camera one operator and wore my fancy head set, I’m happy to report that I didn’t screw up on my first day, like I assumed I would do. It’s a learning environment and people are willing to help you out, so I think I will keep going back.

I’m very fearful for my life in terms of tomorrow. Tomorrow our class goes live at 5 on the net for the first installment of our weekly broadcasts. I’m the PA (Production Assistant), which for those who may not know, is in charge of counting down the start and finish, and ins and outs of video footage, etc. Basically the timing of the show depends on me and I’m prone to fuck ups, so you do the math. Pray for me, perhaps if I live to tell about it I’ll post how terrible it was.