two worlds, one summer.

The great thing about doing two internships in one summer is that you can compare and contrast. Especially when your internships couldn't possibly be more different. 

Internship A: LG CNS, Korea. Multinational Corporate Headquarters. 

Internship B: City Beat, Cincinnati. Local arts/entertainment/news weekly. 

The moment I walked into the City Beat office last Friday, I felt a gigantic tsunami of relief. Goodbye, buttoned-up, middle-aged corporate execs. Goodbye, office hierarchy. Goodbye, 9-6. Hello, alternative work environment, young, tattooed employees, and bringing your dog to the office (I played with three dogs during my short, 4-hour shift).

They handed me over to the assistant music editor, this scrawny, fabulously hipster dude in his young twenties who talks like a washed-up hippie (he favors the words "like" and "totally, man") and is fittingly heading to Berkeley J-school in the fall (I wasted no time confessing my passionate feelings for Berkeley and subsequent jealousy of him). My current job is to update music listings (see what bands and artists are performing at local venues and clubs and add them to the website listings). Which sounds fun, theoretically speaking, until you realize it's just data entry.

Meh, whatever. At least it's not contract translations and I can wear cut-offs to work. Plus, I get to blog for the website, and ya'll know how much I love that.