a lovely surprise

it turns out that i need to do another show! i need to get another show recorded for my project, and the recording didn't work during the summer. so stay tuned for announcements regarding the details of this special show. i'm not sure how many of my friends will listen, because it'll be starting at 8 in the morning. but hey, it's something.

SHP Day

I now declare Columbus Day to also be Senior High Project Day. that's right, SHP day. at least, tomorrow will be for me. i'm going to work on as much as i can, and catch up on some much needed emails to people involved with my SHP, such as my mentor. i also need to have a brain storming session and start typing my paper. i think the plan right now is to just go about typing my paper like i did for that paper i did last summer. i just start at the beginning and work my way through the time period of the project. from there, i can figure out how to focus things, and how my intro and conclusion should be and items such as that. hopefully that'll work. at least if i just write out my experiences it'll be a start to something. because if i try to tack on guidlines and such, it become one giant mess of writer's block. but if it just flows, than i can fix it later. i also need to read up on a few books, and probably start a second document writing out what i learned from that. i also need to start my bibliography of these books. i hope to get a few solid hours of work done on this. i'm planning on only breaking for lunch and a trip to AC Moore. and then around supper time i'll be able to stop and rest, and practice piano and guitar. head over to the Abby's Thoughts blog to read up more about this whole thing with me writing songs.

who knew?

My blog is worth $2,258.16. How much is your blog worth?

so it turns out that this blog is actually worth something. i don't know how they figure this stuff out. but i found this website, and you can type in the address of a blog, and it'll tell you how much the blog is worth. my "Abby's Thoughts" blog isn't worth a penny. but that's okay, because i still enjoy having it. it's a nice way to put out some of those interesting ideas swimming around in my brain. just in case anyone was interested in reading them. so i was quite surprised to know that this is actually worth something. and no, this has nothing to do with my SHP. although maybe i can add this as a little side note during my presentation...

And the Most excited about SHP award goes to...

Me! well, this is according to two of my friends who are seniors at my school. one of them already did her SHP, and the other has yet to present. this means she doesn't have any senior privledges this year. i was talking to these two individuals yesterday morning before school about SHP, and telling them how i will be presenting on April 17th. this made them a little mad because they had to present last year on April 5th, so they don't think it's fair that i have more time. but i was so excited about it because i have all the hours done, i just need to write the paper, prepare for the presentation, and get all my other paperwork together for my portfolio. that's when one of my friends told me i've got to be the most excited person about Senior High Project in this school. i told her it's because i did/am doing something i love. i truely believe that it makes all the difference. so, i'll keep using those extra long study halls to work on my paper, and we'll see how everything goes.

done for now

Yesterday was my last show of the summer. i will be back in june of 2008 to continue the Squeaky Show. The show went really well. i had a School theme and a Goodbye theme. i had more songs in my Good bye theme this time around. so that was really nice. now i need to get crackin' on my paper and presentation . we recorded my show yesterday, and so hopefully that all worked out so i can use that. see, i want to compare how i was last year when i was recorded to this year. i want to show how i've improved. so another portion of this year has ended. summer's gone. the 2007 Squeaky Show is gone, and school is knocking at the door. as much as i would love to continue my show during the school year, i'm glad to have this break. i know it wouldn't be possible for me to do school and a show at the same time. so, all this means i won't be posting quite as much. but you can check out my other blog, and find out about all those weirdo thoughts that go through my head. i will try my best to update this during the year as i am working on my paper and stuff. and i will post how my presentation goes and everything. but that won't be quite as much as i have been posting.

100!

i'm officially at 100 hours! my best guess is that i'll have 120 or so by the time i'm done with the entire project. yesterday went really well. that special theme is going to happen on wednesday. And then i'll have my two themes for the last show of the summer. those two themes are School and Good-bye. i'll be making a list of songs for each theme, and play those sometime during the hour. in fact, i made a list of those songs. so it should be very exciting.

the final stretch

I calculated my hours today after my show. and i have 98 hours. only two more to go! well, actually, i have a lot more hours before i'm finished. but i have two more before i get to the 100 minimum. Some new Christian CDs came in since last week, so i got to play some newer things. i had lots of energy because i passed my driver's test today! i tried some more talking during the beginning of the song thing. and at the end of my show i actually told everyone what show they had been listening to for the past two hours. i just need to work on announcing that more often. i also need to get another show recorded. maybe i'll try to get that done for friday.

Stay tuned for a theme

that's right, try to hold in your excitment. but i am going to have a theme for my show. i'm looking at having this theme on friday. said theme will be announced on friday, and will probably be during the second hour(2-3PM). the shows last week went well. this week is back to the same old schedule. although anything that's going to get me used to the "real" world of working in radio is great. because i was on last tuesday, and then again on wednesday, it reminded me that once i'm done with college and hopefully get a job in radio, it'll be every day, not just two days a week. but that's totally cool, i'm really excited for when that happens. i was telling a friend of mine the other day that radio is just one of those things where i don't mind working hard to do it, but yet it just flows, and i just seem to have a gift for it. it's awesome. a lot of people at school constantly tell me that they can't believe that i do radio for free, and don't get paid for it. but i really don't care at this point. i don't really need any money from it, and i can't earn any money from it since it's for my Senior High Project.(that's one of the rules for it) but the experiance is worth a lot more than any money could be for me. and that's what i'm about right now. gaining experiance.

Breaking News!

I will be on the radio Tomorrow from 1pm till whenever i decide to stop. well, that'd be five at the latest. I had a conflict with work for this friday, so i'll be on tomorrow instead of friday. i'll still be on wednesday, so tune in then. it'll be a nice way to get out of routine for once.

Quick Updatee

The Shows on Wednesday and Friday went well. This week i'll be on wednesday, but i won't be on friday. hopefully, if i can get everything worked out, i will be on a different day. i don't know when, but i will make sure to post it when i know.

Good Show, Jolly Good Show

Things went rather well today. i actually planned for once! i talked about the Bible a little, which i thought was a nice touch. i had some great songs. and that's about it for now.

Overview on Wednesday's Show

yesterday my friend David came on my show. he actually did the radio show with me during the summer of 2005. but because during the summer of 2006 as well as this summer i was doing this for my Senior High Project, i felt it was better if i ventured out on my own just to see what i could do. but i realized yesterday how it felt for me to have help! it was great. i mean, i'm fine on my own, but it just takes a load off to have someone there who knew what they were doing. it was okay if i wasn't there to press buttons when a song ended, because David was perfectly capable. Also, apparently certain people really like to hear the two of us on the radio.... other than that, it was okay. we had a few moments of silence to commemerate the importance of...Promos. or not. and we played some songs that i don't normally play, because David picked them. but it was still good stuff. it was just stuff that i don't normally play. all in all a very productive two hours. and stay tuned for friday, because i've already started planning for that one! yes, i know, planning. when's the last time i did that? well, i need to get better with that.

The wonders of radio

Well, just 17.5 more hours to go. Yesterday's show went okay. well, maybe not. probably to the average person who realizes there's a 16 year old running the show, it probably sounded just fine. but i have a long ways to go before i'm professional. once again, i accidentally tried to play a certain CD in CD player #1, but that CD doesn't work in CD player #1. oh well, that gives me practice talking while preparing something to play. so i let all my listener's listen to Chonda Pierce talk about giving directions. so there were a few seconds of dead air. and i've been so good at not having any dead air too. i guess it's like driving stick shift. when i first began, i stalled out all the time. but then it finally got to a point where i only had problems with hills. now, i'm pretty much okay on whatever kind of road. but i still stall out once in a while. even my parents stall out, but that probably doesn't even happen once a year. so as i keep driving stick shift, i'll stall out less and less each time. same goes with radio, when i first started i had dead i haven't here and there. but now i've been doing this for awhile, so i know how to keep things going and not have dead air. the show before last, on last wednesday, was cool. i was kinda in a bad mood, and when i'm in a bad mood, i need to listen to some Chrsitian rock, and that makes me feel better. so i decided to make my show mostly rock. it was awesome. and it helped get some energy out because i got to bounce around the control room while the music was playing. i could swish around my hair however i wanted, and none of it really mattered. i haven't really done something like that in a long time. i just don't play any screamo stuff, that's the limit i have. even on friday, i played some more rock stuff, but not as much. but i still had stuff i needed to get out of my system.

How I feel

I feel like i'm more confident in how i present myself on the radio. That seems to be very good for me. If things go wrong, which last friday everything seemed to go wrong, i'm better at trying to talk to the audience while bringing up another song to play. i just need to work on saying the name of my show, the name of myself, and breaking more in between songs to let people know what has been playing. i also find that people start IMing me, and then i start going crazy. and then i get nothing done. i guess that's good to learn now before i'm thrown out into the real world.

fun with T-shirts

For the past few days I've been waking up early in the morning to go to Hershey, which is a half-hour drive, for a conference. It was for the Arthritis Foundation. My younger sister has JRA, which you can learn about by going to her blog. Just click on the link to the side of the page. This morning was the last morning. I'd been hanging out with the 16+ group since Monday morning. They are a great group of people. some of them had arthritis, like my sister. and then some of them were like me and had a sibling with arthritis. I hear your questions: what does this have to do with the Squeaky Show? Shouldn't you be posting this on your other blog? well, this morning had everything to do with the Squeaky Show. there were some t-shirts that we could decorate, and have people sign. i decided to make a Squeaky Show Shirt. So on the front it just said, "The Squeaky Show". and on the back it says, "Only On WVMM 90.7". My brother knows someone who's dad is into graphic design, so i could get more sophisticated shirts made for a relatively low price. but i'm not sure how many people are going to want one. so i'll just wear the one i made. i had fun making it, and that's what matters. plus, i decided i'm only going to have the Squeaky Show for as long as i'm on WVMM. if for some reason i get a show on a different radio station, which won't happen for a very long time, i will not call my show the Squeaky Show. it will have to be called something else. i still could have been on the air today even though it's a holiday. but because of the conference, i decided i didn't want to rush getting home, so i wasn't on today. but i will be back on the air on friday.

Logging Hours...

So, for this project that I'm doing, I have to log 100 hours of doing my radio show. That can be anything with my radio show. I log when I plan, my actual time on the radio, when I've helped the radio station with different events, and when I went to shadow at a major christian radio station. By the time last Thanksgiving came around, I was up to 50 hours. That felt really nice to be at the halfway point. Last summer I was really good at logging my hours right after every show. This year...not so much. I think I've gone three shows without logging. I really need to get back into that habit. See, there might be a reason behind me not wanting to log. I've had two things for which I needed to log hours. In the state of Pennsylvania, they require teenagers with their learners permit to log their driving hours until they get up to 50. So from October to May I was logging all the driving time I could. I was so happy to be done loggin hours in May, I guess I just don't want to go back for my Senior High Project. However, I have to do so. I guess I know what I'll be doing tomorrow morning.

Welcome to the Squeaky Show!

Hey everyone! My name is Abby, and i have a radio show with Messiah College radio. I started my show three years ago, and just do it during the summer. ever since last summer, it has been a project for high school. I have to complete a Graduation project in order to...well...graduate. as I said, started last year and did half of my 100 hour requirement. then this summer i'll get the other half. during my junior year, which is next year, i'll present my project and write a paper about my project. So I get to log all my hours and analyze how i've grown as a radio personality. all that sort of thing. My show is on Wednesdays and Fridays from 1-3pm. if you live in Central Pennsylvania, you might be able to listen on 90.7. if not, since your online anyways, head over to www.messiah.edu/wvmm and click on the listen tab. I'll be playing a great veriety of Christian music.