After waiting and waiting to hear back from both the Warner Bros. and Fox jobs, I was starting to think I'd never get either of them...but then to my surprise I got a call - and I got the Fox job! I started this week at Twentieth Television, a distribution company that's part of Fox. I work in Fox plaza, which is really cool - it's right next to the Fox lot! When I started I was supposed to be part time, but the boss said I can be full time, which was definitely unexpected, but great because now I don't have to find a crappy second job at some restaurant or something like that. I guess my position used to be filled by two part-time people, but this time around they decided to change things up - how lucky for me! And also, I make a dollar more than I was supposed to, so I got a raise before I even started! Oh, and I get access to the Fox lot too, where they tape all their shows (like House, How I Met Your Mother, and Bones). I'm really glad I got a job, because I was worried that I'd run out of money out here and be in some big trouble.

So far the job seems pretty cool. My main job is to pull the night before's Nielsen ratings - I download, e-mail, and hand out copies of them to everyone in the office. And it's cool because I see them before everyone else, and now I don't have to read them online every day at home. Another one of my jobs is to make a newsletter for everyone about the latest TV news (with an emphasis on Fox stuff)...and that's another thing I do anyways at home every day! So now I get paid to do it - how awesome! Yeah I'm just the new person who's got the lowest rank, but I'm sure I'll work my way up. Eventually I should start to learn about how we do our presentations. Everyone just did one on How I Met Your Mother - we're trying to sell it to a cable station. I can't believe I actually have a job! :)

I'll leave the life stories at that for now so this isn't too boring and long. I have yet to see if this Report Problem Editor thing turns out to be helpful or not, but I think it will be. On the other hand, those who receive the complaints will have to sort through all the useless ones I'm sure will be submitted before real ones can be acted upon. I'm finally level 50 now, and I also just got 5,000 submissions done as of today. Took me long enough haha. I'm sad that The Mole is over after Monday (I think Craig is the mole), and it looks like it won't be back due to its low ratings. :( Only a few more weeks though until fall premieres start!

Enjoy the rest of summer everyone! ;)

Well, I was definitely gone longer than expected, but I'm finally back. Except this time I'm not at school in New York, but I'm instead in Los Angeles (specifically Sherman Oaks)! I sorta almost *had* to move here, since the last requirement to finish my degree is to get an internship...and my field is TV...so it just sorta made sense to come here, especially since we met a bunch of people on our trip out here back in January, and those people have been helping me try to find an internship/job.

It's really weird how it doesn't rain here - ever. It's sunny and really hot every day, at least in the summer. Winter will be really weird with no snow! I love the area though - it's crazy driving through Beverly Hills, seeing the Hollywood sign, going down Sunset Blvd. and Rodeo Drive, and all that stuff. 4th of July on the beach was awesome!

The bad news is that I didn't get the internship I wanted. I was a finalist for a programming internship at the Academy of Television Arts & Science, but at the end of May I found out I didn't get it...so I had to move here with nothing (on June 21st to be exact). I was sad to leave everyone behind, and everything here is so expensive, but hopefully soon I'll have a job/internship. I had 2 interviews for Warner Bros. and have a 2nd one at Fox tomorrow, so hopefully one of those will work out. Both are in research, which for some reason I really like, and is a good way to get started if I wanna do programming/scheduling in the future. Hopefully I can start meeting some famous people soon too haha. The Fox interview was in the building they filmed Die Hard in, so that's cool enough for me for now haha.

I'm gonna have to get used to the site again. I noticed they finally fixed the n/a bug - yessssss! I hated that bug so much! And I'm stilllllll level 49 haha. I can't wait for fall though, when TV is good again! Oh, and worst news of the week I recently read - no more Grissom on CSI after 10 episodes into this season! Noooo! Anyways...I'll have to discuss my new show picks at some point in the future...for now it's time to try to catch up on everyone else's blogs. Later!

Well, I'm all done with exams now, which was really exhausting and crazy...but now that means I'm also done with school! I graduated yesterday and the family came and everything, and now I'm done, forever! It's a really weird feeling, I don't feel old yet! Lol. I do have to do an internship though before I "officially" graduate, and I also need to wait for the results of the comprehensive exam. And for my internship...I'm pretty sure I'm moving to Los Angeles! Which is pretty crazy - it's all the way across the country! I always wanted to eventually move there, but half our program at school is moving there, and all my teachers keep telling me I should move there...and that's where most of the TV stuff is anyways...so I'm gonna give it a try!

It's a huge change though, so I dunno how I'm gonna like it, and I might not be in the blogging mood for awhile. Also I'm not gonna move there for another month, so I'll be at home until then, and when I'm at home I'm rarely online...so that probably means no more blogs again haha. But I'll be around of course keeping up with all my guides and such, and hopefully the move will go smoothly and I'll be able to get back into the swing of things.

I'm really excited for all the finales coming up, I can't wait! I'm terribly upset to hear that Smallville and CSI, my two favorite shows, might not be back after next year...at least I'll get one more year though! It's really late though and I need to go to sleep...see everyone around, take care!

Everything's getting even more crazy as it's the last few weeks of class. On top of the typical end-of-semester papers/projects and then final exams, we have comprehensive exams (a final requirement for graduation) on the last day of normal exams, then also we are on the search for internships for the summer (the other final requirement for graduation). I thankfully got accepted as a finalist at the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (they do the Emmys), but now I've gotta make an interview tape and analyze a script for them in the next two weeks. Also I'm dumb and volunteered to lead everyone in studying for the comprehensive exams, and no one can seem to get anything together and it's a mess and everyone keeps asking me questions about it. So yeah, I'm super-busy and have a ton of stuff going on right now.

That's why I've still not gotten around to commenting on blogs, sorry. And also I'm probably gonna be behind on submissions here and there (like tonight since I had a meeting after class and barely got home on time for Medium, not to mention missing Bones since I have class until 8:15). Hopefully everyone will understand...I know this isn't a good time to be behind (since it's finale season), but I've gotta get all this stuff done for school before I come here, so I figured I'd warn everyone they may have a few days' wait on acceptances at times. I'll blog for real and start commenting again as soon as I get a chance!

Later!

I thought I should post some type of blog so no one thinks I'm dead or something lol...I've been not having the best few weeks (the main issue is this lady that will NOT call me back, no matter what I do, to set up an interview for the internship I want more than any other one), and have been busy with class (tons of assignments due soon, and class is over in less than a month now, crap!). Also I've been starting to study for our comprehensive exam (it's one essay of ten, you don't pick which one you write so you have to know them all...and it's a 4-hour test so I'm assuming we have to write quite a few pages!), so I haven't really been around here so much. Also apparently I like writing huge run-on sentences right now. I'll hopefully be back soon, in a week or so, with a real blog and some blog commenting. Oh, and all our shows are finally coming back...so I'm pretty sure actually that I'll be spending more time here soon - I can't wait for everything to come back! CSI is already coming on Thursday!! That's it for now, I'm out!

So that test I talked about in my last blog, the one that was gonna be real hard...I studied forever for it, staying up all night the night before...then he made it take-home! I was sorta glad, since his tests are notoriously hard, but still, I knew most of the stuff on there. *sigh* I have to share though, because this is a great class. We watch TV. Every week, that's really all we do. The class is "Prime Time TV: 1980-Present" and it's pretty cool. Our teacher is the leader in the field of pop culture, and is quoted all the time in news articles, and has been on MTV and 60 Minutes and stuff, so he knows his stuff, and we actually do learn about TV, not just watch it. :P Here's some of the questions from the test:

1. Describe the 1st season of the Fox Network, including the year, examples of programs, and scheduling strategy.
2. The Dick Van Dyke Show was not made by MTM Enterprises, but is linked to the company in several ways. Describe them.
3. St. Elsewhere was often referred to as "Hill Street Blues in a hospital." While this may be true from a certain stylistic standpoint, it is not necessarily true in terms of the chronological history of the show. Explain why not.
4. Who is Glenn Gordon Caron and what made him a unique figure in 1980's television?
5. I claimed that there were at least three levels of meaning operating in many scenes from St. Elsewhere. What were the three levels I pointed out in the cafeteria scene we discussed in class?
6. Who shot J.R?
7. Miami Vice took a new artistic approach to television. What elements did the show emphasize, as I described them in class?

Isn't that cool? I particularly liked the one about Glenn Gordon Caron since he's the creator of Medium.

Other than that, I wanted to mention that I'm leaving to go home for "spring" break today, so I'll be pretty much MIA until St. Patrick's Day when school starts back up. I'll check my queue every few days, but other than that I'll be busy with other stuff so won't have much time for the site. Bye for now!

Yeah, the last few weeks have been pretty crazy, and it's just getting worse! Tomorrow I have a test. And it's not a normal test. We have to know EVERYTHING. Like, if someone is mentioned in one single paragraph, that's fair game. Now this is out of like, 200-something pages too. Yeah...crazy. Then on top of that, I need to have an internship this summer (it's part of graduating), and I have to apply for a bunch...but we're supposed to apply to places that don't offer internships? That makes it really hard. Yet another thing to stress about. Then there's also the fact that I have no idea where I'm gonna move when school is over. Ugh. So yeah that's why I've been hiding lately.

The levels the last week or so have been really weird, hopefully they'll be fixed (going through Level 43 in a day?! Wow!). And also, I've had some editing problems too. It's really hard to make a rule for every single kind of conceivable submission, and when 2 people argue about something it's hard to figure out what decision to maek sometimes. I just hope I haven't made anyone hate me...

Also I got a random guide. I didn't really want a kid show, but it has Vincent Price in it so I just had to get The 13 Ghosts of Scooby Doo. I remember watching reruns back in the day, too bad it didn't last longer than 13 episodes lol.

So I'll be busy the next few weeks, freaking out about everything, but then after that I should be back to normal! I promise I'll try to comment on everyone's blogs when I can. That's it for now, back to studying!

For awhile now I've noticed that things here just aren't the same as they used to be a few years ago. Not with the actual site, because obviously the site has changed quite a bit. I mean with the group of people I used to blog back and forth with. Most of the people I became friends with within my first year on the site have left the site to some degree, or at least stopped blogging (either completely or to a large degree). I myself never really blogged every day, but I used to blog more than I do. I look at my 10 most recent blogs from friends and keep seeing blogs from so many days ago. For example, today I can still see blogs from the 22nd of January. That list used to be filled with the blogs of that same day, not of days and weeks before. I guess I haven't really tried so hard to find a new bunch of friends... but it just seemed that once I had a few friends before, the others came, and we had our own little group and all commented on each other's blogs.

Some of the non-bloggers are still quite active... while some of them seem to simply hide out and not talk to anyone anymore. Only a few of my old friends blog anymore... I think only angelsxo blogs daily. Of course I've gotten some new friends too, and they're also cool. I'm just saying... the old people have steadily disappeared. Where'd all the emblem contests and riddles and games go? And those flashy blogs with pictures and colors and stuff?Hm. I guess things change.

Well, I hope all the people that lurk around secretly, all the oldies who used to visit each other's blogs all the time, are doing well. And maybe some will update us on how things are going. I thought i was gonna stop blogging once but that obviously didn't happen. I think I'll stick with my random blogs, but I don't see myself disappearing for good anytime soon. Why? I don't know, but something keeps me here. Maybe I should find another bunch of friends... or maybe I'm just outdated.

Two weeks later, I'm finally getting to telling the story of my trip to LA. The trip was with school and counted as a class, so it really was just a bunch of sessions with people in the entertainment industry (writers, directors, executives, etc.) and we had minimal free time. It was still a lot of fun though. We stayed at the Beverly Garland Holiday Inn right by Universal Studios. Here are thehighlights:

Monday (January 7th):The first guy we talked to was on CBS's lot (he's the VP of production there), and we luckily got a tour. I was so excited! We got to go on the set of Cane (meh) and CSI: NY (cool!). I don't watch either of those shows, but it was still awesome. I have to showa fewpictures:

The big sign!!! Aaah! Soo cool!

Gary Sinise's desk!!

Unfortunately, due the writers' strike all the famous people were in hiding (all week). Oh! We also went on the set of Big Brother, as the people there told us we could. We got to see the new set they're building...and a few of us snuck some pictures. But then some guy came in and kicked us out! I guess he was one of the executive producters. Now I can say I was kicked off the set of Big Brother! The set didn't look that nice to me anyways, but I guess until it premieres next month I'm not supposed to share my forbidden picture lol.Anways...we then went elsewhere and talked to Lori Taub, a Unit Production Manager, who was REALLY interesting and made her job sound like something really hard but fun. We talked to some other boring people, thenwe got to chat with BruceBilson and Danny Bilson (Rachel Bilson'sgrandpa and dad). Danny is pretty crazy! He's very opinionated.

Tuesday: Nothing special this day. We talked to some interesting people though. One lady is in research/Nielsen ratings, which is what I'm interested in, so I liked her talk. We also talked to a super-nice lady in distribution and afunny/nice writer guy. The coolest thing in my opinion was going to a post-production place that edits a TON of huge shows like House and CSI. I got to see snippets of the last new CSI episode (that didn't air until that Thursday) while we were in there - neat!

Wednesday: The big event this day was a panel of people at the SONY lot. There was someone taping everything and lots of pictures being taken, which was weird. I wasn't really interested in anyone in the panel though...oh well. Later on we talked to an entertainment attorney and some other random guy. Blah. We did get a treat that night though - we got to go see The Groundlings, which is a group who does improv. They were REALLY good!

Thursday: This day we met the coolest lady ever - Toni Graphia. She's really down to earth and really interesting. She's done a lot of writing, most recently for the new Terminator show on Fox. She brought along Dan Thomsen, who also wrote an episode of Terminator (and who I added to this site lol, yay). Dan was equally interesting and had a nice personality like Toni. The only other really interesting person we met that day was Scott Stone, who has his own production company. He usually works with reality shows, and had doneLegends of the Hidden Temple (how cool is that!) and The Mole - which he told us is returning to ABC this year!

Friday: A panel of writers was the main event, which wasn't really up my alley. The people we talked to were quite successful though, like Eric Bress (who created Kyle XY) and John Beck and Ron Hart (a writing team who works on According to Jim). We also met my favorite guy ever, who is obsessed with Nielsen ratings and reading about TV, just like I am. He works in development at Nickelodeon. He was neat. He even talked to us about Jamie Lynn's pregnancy haha. After the speakers we saw According to Jim tape Period Peace. I've never seen a show tape before, so that was cool...but wow that show sucks! I have no idea how it's lasted 7 years lol. It was the last thing taping though, and if there wasn't a strike we would have seen Two and a Half Men. Oh well.

Contrary to my geeky little fan boy rantings, this trip's purpose was to help us get an idea of what the industry is like and give us "contacts" to potentially help us get jobs. I guess I'll see where it gets me after I graduate!

I finally caught up with the tonsof subs and other random stuff left for me while Iwas onvacation and came back to school. As usual, I don't use the Internet much at all when I'm at home. My Holidays were very busy this year, as usual. I work a lot, see friends I don't get to see while I'm in school, and get ready for Christmas with the family (that's lots of work!). Then on January 6th I went to Los Angeles for a week. When I got back I pretty much just packed and left for school. When I got back from my trip and checked my queue I was surprised by the large amount of submissions in my queue- none had been looked at while I was gone, I guess because I was gone exactly a week. So it took me a few days to catch up, especially with the return of Medium occurring when I was in LA.

I finally changed my banner again - I love it! Fireworks is fun to use, althoughI'm still shaky on how to make a banner's quality stay intact when transferring it over to here; sometimes it doesn't seem to work. On another note, I've been having some issues with details in my guides. These are issues that don't have a precedent here on the site (such as the use of Special Guest Stars). I started a thread over in the editor's forum in an effort to make some kind of conclusion, as I've been seeing conflict with my thoughts and those of contributors to my guides.

I only have [ahahhahaah c-l-a-s-s is a banned word now ahahahha soo lame] on Mondays and Wednesdays this semester, which is really weird. I'll have to get a job, seriously, too much free time. The cl_sses all meet for 3 hours once a week, that's also really weird. I don't think I've ever had a cl_ss like that before, and this time all 4 of my cl_sses are like that. I guess that means a lot of out-of-cl_ss work and assignments. Yuck. I want to tell everyone about my trip to LA and all the cool people I got to meet (like the guy who's in charge of The Mole and some writers who wrote episodes of the new Terminator) and the cool things I got to do (like go on the set of CSI: NY and get kicked off the set of Big Brother). That will be another day though, and I might separate it into two blogs. Enough crap-talk for now!

*Wow, and does anyone remember like, 5 months ago when staff said they'd fix that issue with spacing on blogs/forums? Sometimes I still forget that problems never actually get fixed here...