A quick update...

Just thought I'd give a quick update about what's going on.

First, I got my camera back! I called Canon last Monday asking about the status and what was going on. At that time, they hadn't even started looking at it.

On Friday of that same week, I came home (Lenoir City) to find the camera in the mail. Included was a repair statement detailing the work done. Apparently, a internal part shorted out causing the error message. The problem was fixed under warranty. So happy...

So on Saturday, armed with my camera one again, I decided to get the jump on my photojournalism project. I went down to Wilburn's barbershop in downtown Lenoir City to capture the happenings of "hair" as my project required. I got off some awesome shots!

The barbershop is so authentic in its own antiquated way. I'll post my final project when finished. It will consist of a slide show, ambient noise and an interview with Wilburn himself. Should be really cool.

I'm also thinking about submitting the project to the local paper. Considering the size of the paper, it should get printed. (knock on wood)

Otherwise, school is going well. I'm getting ready to submit my application for a summer practicum at the Knoxville News Sentinel. It would give me some really great experience and something journalistic to do over the summer...for 40 hours a week.

In other news, I participated in my first radio show tonight. Five guys from the Tennessee Journalist crammed ourselves into the TNJN office for an hour of automotive discussion. "Car Nuts On Campus" got off to a slow start with some dead air time and awkward pauses but finished with some great conversation and enthusiasm. We even had two callers asking for advice on car trouble. Now that we sort of know what we're doing, next week should run fairly smoothly.

I would post a link to the podcast of our internet radio show however, due to inexperience with the entire radio process, our show was not saved. Our technical support left half way through the show and didn't return until we had already shut down the computers. Oh well. there's always next week's show...

So this has turned out to be more than a quick update but a needed update regardless.

Please - even if you don't know me - comment below! Give me your thoughts/feedback!