People can be very strange...

Friday last week I got a phone call at about 8:30 a.m. and when the caller was surprised that I was still asleep (forgot to turn the phone off) I explained that as I work until dawn on Saturday morning I sleep in late on Friday. So she called this morning at 8:45. How is that supposed to be better? At least this week I am already awake despite staying up until three last night...man am I going to be dragging later!
This week has rushed by and I keep getting the feeling I haven't done very much. Not true, because I have files full of new promos, bridges and stingers; I've finally got a chance of getting a crossfade right in audition (if you are reading and don't know, adobe audition, audio editing software) once in five attempts and I actually used eight tracks yesterday, chequerboarded them and got the effect I wanted in the mixdown! I suppose that's why the week is missing...like coding web pages, life just slides down into a black hole and when you come out the light has changed, sometimes the whole day has moved on, and editing/mixing pulls the same level of attention I guess. At least I have product to show for it...not like spending hours writing a script and then trying to run it and nothing!
Strangely enough this daily striptease helps my show. I believe good radio is like a conversation between the DJ and the "Listener" and doing the psychic naked 360 in front of the world helps me let myself be seen as well as heard once the mic is on. I was painfully shy until I read in Reader's Digest that shyness is a form of vanity so I dived into things that make me a privately public creature, behind words, behind a lens, on a stage,behind a mic. Seen and heard but at a distance so I can run if the big bad world gets too close. Self-knowledge is such a freakin' bore at times! I am still shy, I just suppress it ruthlessly and dance in public with my soul on the outside.