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Insanity

Insanity... that's not really a word very often associated with me. Well, not until recently anyway. My life has always been on the crazy side but I'd hardly call it insane. I work some strange hours. I do some strange things on the air. I do some even stranger things off the air. I say strange things (strange to some people anyway). But I never thought I was insane until I remembered that Einstein said that insanity is "completing the same action over and over, expecting different results."

I think that's me.

More later.

--Jonathan

Bored

I'm sitting at my desk at work bored out of my mind. I've already finished all of my work until I hit the air at 2:00 so I figured I'd write in here a bit since I've been majorly neglecting it. Of course, I know the two or so of you who read this thing are really sick and tired of waiting for updates. LOL

I went to Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago for an overnight stay. It was a great time, checking out downtown and all. There's so much to do there, I wish I had more time to explore. I loved eating dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe on Meridian Street on Saturday night. I talked to some of the people there and found out that one of the bar tenders was going to transfer to the Hard Rock Beach Club in Choctaw (I was on the opening staff) and was really pissed when he found out that it was being closed. Emmis Communications has their home office/Indianapolis cluster in a building right on the Circle. I would love to do radio in a place like that someday. Anyway, I called it an early night and the next day I went to the Red Eye Cafe (best coffee I've ever had!) and then I went to an Indianapolis Indians game. FYI, they're a AAA team for the Pirates.

While I was there I bought a journal at the Borders in downtown Indy. I've done a little writing in there but not a whole lot. Well, until last night... I wrote two pages of stuff, one of which was a poem. I'm not sure if I'll post it here but I guess anything's possible. I know I've never posted any of that stuff here but it's because it's deeply personal stuff and I don't want just anyone to see it (no offense). I might get up the nerve to post it and let some comments be made about it. Keep watching... we shall see.

Life has been very complicated for me. The obvious relationship troubles mentioned in previous posts is one thing but there's just a ton of confusion for me in other areas. Sometimes I really wonder how well my station is going to do in the ratings. Radio is a strange business; you live and die by Arbitron, which sometimes means you can get fucked because 20 people out of a possible 2000 people in your demographic returned useable ratings diaries and they didn't fall in your favor. It's all a numbers game and it sucks... do well, you have a job. Do poorly, you're in line for cheese. Don't get me wrong, I love this business and I really couldn't see myself doing anything else. But the no job security thing really makes one uneasy sometimes.

I guess I should find some work to do. I'm sure I've overlooked something. Hope you have a great day and feel free to make a comment or two.

--Jonathan

I am NOT dead!!

LOL

I got an email from someone thinking that I was dead since I haevn't updated in almost a month. I assure you, I am far from being dead. LOL No, I've just been really busy with station stuff mostly. The promotion we've been doing (the fugitive) has been really time consuming and it's been really tough to do much of anything like this. In fact, I'm about to leave to go to a fugitive-related event we're doing today. Oh, but my day will be no where near over. After that I'm going to the Komets game (do or die for them) and then I'm going to Piere's for our Wet 'N Wild Sunday (wet t-shirt contest). So it's going to be a long day.

Today is Mother's Day. If I'm not mistaken this is the first one I've ever spent away from home. This is kind of hard for me since me and my mom are pretty close. But I hope she somewhat understands how much she means to me and the impact she has had on me through out my life. She truly has made me who I am today and I am forever greatful for that. I love you mom!!

Update about Emily and I: We're still talking but that's it. Nothing really much to be said except that we will communicate. Honestly, we probably talk more now than we did at any time we were together. What's going to happen between us? I honestly don't know. She doesn't want a serious relationship right now so we're probably going to be friends for the foreseeable future... but anything's possible.

I know this is pretty short considering how long my posts usually are but I have to get down to our remote. Later!

--Jonathan