By Taylor Freeman

Day 1, Hour 1:

So far, I’ve spent a good 30 minutes working on the editing project for Video on Location. I’m currently sitting in the Mac lab of Hildreth, which has had some good and bad reviews, but it’s the open lab, so I don’t really have a choice in the matter. I’ve started sampling my visual shots and moving them into their respective folders. Hopefully, it won’t take me too long. I’ve never done an edit like this before, so it could take me some time.

Hour 2:

I think I should have come to this project a little more prepared. I didn’t realize how cold it would be in this lab, but I definitely should have brought a sweater… and socks. I’ve finished sampling my visual, and now I’m in the process of going through the audio. I suspect that this is going to take just as long, if not longer. I’m finding myself getting rather hungry, as it is growing closer to dinner. I hear it’s Wing Night tonight.

Hour 3:

I’m afraid I won’t make it to Wing Night tonight. I’ve finished sampling and now I’ve moved on to the actual editing part. This is going to be easier than the tedious process that sampling was. I’ve been sitting here for… three hours now? I can’t feel my feet, and I can see my fingers turning purple. This room is sapping my body heat… that’s probably what they power the Macs with: the heat of overworked media students.

Hour 4:

I’ve lost all feeling in my limbs. I’m afraid to move; my toes might break. I can’t feel anything, I have become completely numb. I can see the ice growing off of my body. If someone finds this journal, please… export my project and get it in to Corey Norman. I’ve worked too hard on this project to have it be late because no one knows how to turn up the heat in this stupid lab. Let me be a warning to any CNMS students who want to work in the Mac lab. Bring something warm.