Monday, October 3, 2011

i invented swag

So today was a studio day, I arrived at work for around 9am, checked my email and went to work seeing what needed to get done for today's show. The answer: not much. That's the joy of not having a show taping on Friday, Friday's are the day for painting, prepping, and getting any kinks worked out for Monday's show.

I helped out wherever I could but like I said, there wasn't much. Until about 10:30, then the "fun" began. As I've said before I'm the designated elevator boy, elevator man?, elevator master?, elevator specialist?, whatever you wanna call me. I'm the guy that takes everyone from the ground floor up to the 6th floor and to the studio :) Once the audience was loaded in it was time to take my place, behind set, and wait for the blocks to be over. The show is broken up into 7 or 8 blocks (or segments) and in between each block is when the PA's work their magic.

After the show it was time to eat and see what needed to be done for tomorrow's show, that answer: I don't know. I went to the office manager, or "giver of work", or as most people call her, Andrea. She sent me to Isabella (who is in charge of the audience giveaways) and my job for the afternoon was to unload the 2 skids of giveaways for Wednesday's shows. Remember, we shoot 2 shows on Wednesdays and we do that so we have Friday's with no show :)

Well normally this is a pretty quick, painless, easy task...today was a little different though. The skids were buried behind everything in the cage. But, without going into painstaking detail, I unloaded 1 skid. It took me just over 2 hours and once it was done, this is what was left in the cage.

Bags Galore!

In total I believe there are 100 bags... I didn't count all of them, but it was a lot. After unloading this skid it was time to call it a day and head home. 

And with that, I'm done.... doing these 1 day at a time, and right after work, is way easier than writing a short novel. Plus the shorter they are, the more likely you are to actually read them. BYE!

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