Wednesday, November 30th

Today we had 3 Doors Down come in to the office for a meeting with Monte. The office was pretty excited yet again and we got to do some preparing before the band arrived. We put up a board with their pictures on it like we do for every other artist that comes in, and then we went to the back closet and found some huge posters that we hung up by Monte's office. Mara and I went and got the band at the door and they were really nice. Sometimes you expect artists to come in and have a big head or a huge ego, but these guys were really down to earth and very polite. They shook our hands and introduced themselves one by one, and then we took them in and offered them beverages and sat them on the couch. They went into Monte's office a few minutes later for a meeting that took basically the rest of the day. So that left artist news to do and we opened some mail. Monte had about 20 magazines delivered today and a whole stack of mail that we had to go through and organize into bills and expenses and other important papers. It was a pretty calm day, but we got a lot done.

Tuesday, November 29th

Today we had some people from the Indie Pop label come in to the office. Indie Pop is the label that Dev belongs to and The Cataracs belongs to as well. Dev isn't huge yet, but she recently released her successful hit "Bass Down Low" which did really well. She found the two boys from The Cataracs a few years ago on MySpace and the three of them teamed up to start making a whole bunch of music together. They've been pretty successful since then. The Cataracs and Dev were both on the hugely popular song "Like A G6" which kind of rocketed them up to musical fame. Indie Pop has a lot of other artists similar to Republic's artists, and they came in today to have a meeting with Mnote. They were in his office pretty much all day, so we couldn't do our normal routine of archiving the emails on his computer and putting his mail in his office. So we spent time doing some expenses with Renata and looking up artist news stories. When Monte has long meetings in his office it's like when he goes out of town because we can't get in to his office to do a lot of work. So we stuck with researching artists and writing news stories for the day.

Monday, November 28th

Today it was tough to get back in to the swing of being back at work. The morning routine went smoothly like always. I archived Monte's emails, which there were a lot of because of the long Thanksgiving break. After that I went through Renata's red marked emails and archived those. I opened a whole bunch of new CDs and put them away in the cabinet. We got some more Drake albums and then some Christmas CD that we're releasing. The CD is a mix of a whole bunch of artists that have kind of the same musical feel. Jack Johnson is on there and so is James Morrison; it's a really low key and kind of beachy vibe. That's the vibe that I love to feel around Christmas, so I'll have to take a copy home to listen to. Luckily it was another low key day, so I did some artist news stories about Nicki Minaj and Jessie J. After that, I worked on some website information. I have to make a spreadsheet of every artist and their personal website to hand out to people of the company. We've made a bunch of lists like this before, but now we have to make an official list for everyone to look at.

Friday, November 18th

Since Monte is still gone today, we got to relax a little bit around the office. The work load wasn't bad at all...actually there wasn't really a work load at all. We got to come in later than usual today because we don't have to do the morning routine when Monte isn't here. So when I got in, I archived his emails and went through and archived Renata's emails too. I opened up some of the mail that was sent to Monte and then put it all in a UPS box to mail to wherever he is. Then I did some artist news and got all of the stories done in about a half an hour. After that there really wasn't anything to do except archive a few emails here and there. When Monte is out of the office, Mara, Renata and I like to do word puzzles all day long, so we did. Today was my last day at work until Thanksgiving break and then I come back to work on the 28th. I was surprised that they were giving us the whole week off for Thanksgiving, but I guess that's what they always do for interns and holidays here. I'm so glad to have a week off for Thanksgiving, and I'm glad there wasn't a lot of work to do on my last day here.

Thursday, November 17th

Today Monte emailed Renata a project for the interns to work on. The projects Monte gives us are always kind of fun, and this one wasn't bad either. Our record label is working with an Asian record company called JYP. They're huge over in places like Korea, China, and Japan. Today, JYP sent Monte a movie called the Wonder Girls, which is basically a movie like Spice World with a band basically like the Spice Girls, only these girls are from Korea. So today the interns had to sit down and watch this movie and take notes on it. We got to comment on things that we thought were good and things that we thought could use some improving. The movie is geared towards the younger audiences of America, and I thought it was really cute. We typed up about two pages of notes of things that were good, and about a page of notes of things we thought could use some work. After we watched the film, we had to watch a presentation of the JYP company and write down notes about that as well. A lot of today was watching and writing, and I was okay with it. I like it when Monte seeks the input of the younger people that work at the company.

Wednesday, November 16th

Today was a busy day because Monte leaves for Nashville tomorrow. He goes right from Nashville to Los Angeles after that so he'll be gone for the rest of the week. The day before Monte leaves is always busy with last minute phone calls and reservations. I spent a lot of today going over his itinerary and calling the car service to make sure all the destinations were correct and I called a lot of hotels to make sure the room reservations were correct. After I worked on his itinerary, I worked on compiling all of the artist links for our website and making a spread sheet of them. Another woman who works on our floor, Colleen, asked if the interns could help out with it. So today when I didn't have anything to do I would work on that. I got the list about three fourths of the way done, and it shouldn't take me longer than another day to wrap it up. 3 Doors Down came in to the office today and I got to meet them and put together music bags for them. Whenever we have a guest come in the office, we put together bags of new CDs for them to take with, so I got to make a bunch of those. After 3 Doors Down left, Monte had to go to a dinner meeting so he left around 5. That meant that I got to leave early too.

Tuesdy, November 15th

Today Monte gave us a project to work on that took up most of the day. The radio station here in New York is Z100 and they have a contest every year for singers for them to get a chance to open up the Jingle Ball. The Jingle Ball is a huge concert here in New York that huge artists perform at. This year, Monte is a judge to pick who wins the Z100 contest and as of right now there are only 25 contestants left. So Mara and I sat down with the list of 25 singers, links to their websites, and the voting sheets, and we listened to every single person and wrote down scores from them. The scores were supposed to be from 1 to 100 so I scored mine in intervals of 10. There were different things that we had to score them on, and then we had to add up all the scores and come up with a final score. Some singers were good, but most of them...weren't. It was hard to listen to 25 singers in a row and still keep an open mind about each person. It took a long time to listen to each person, and by the time we were done, we only had time to do a few artist news stories and then it was time to leave. It wasn't the most exciting job, but it was pretty fun compared to office work.

Monday, November 14th

Today was a pretty laid back day. I did the normal things like archive emails and open the mail. After I did some artist news, another assistant came over to Renata's desk and asked if he could borrow Mara and I. Renata said yes so Patch, the other assistant, took us and all the other interns into Avery's office. Avery is Monte's brother and they run the record label together. All ten of the interns were in Avery's office for what we call a listening session. A listening session is when all of the interns get to listen to a few tracks, today it was five, of unreleased music and we have to score each song on a score card. We had to rate which song we liked the best and the least on a scale of one to five. I thought it was really fun, I love to hear unreleased music and I like it when the label asks for outside opinions.

Friday, November 11th

Today was just a normal day. Blaine was there today, so it was nice to be able to split the work up between two people. I archived Monte's emails in the morning and then went through all the marked emails in Renata's inbox. I added a few people to the contacts sheet and the call sheet and then I scheduled a Gala for Monte. After that I went through and organized all of the printed emails that he has laying around, and then I got his breakfast ready. After that I spent the day doing some artist news and mailing out a few plaques from Monte's office. I had to mail and Eddie Vedder plaque to someone in New Jersey and then I mailed a Taylor Swift plaque to someone else in New York. I had to spend some time trying to find a box big enough for the Taylor plaque, but it didn't take me too long to get that all done. After that, I worked on the website and did some more artist news. It was a boring day with not a lot going on, but I felt like I got a lot done.

Thursday, November 10th

Today we had a band come in to visit. Steel Panther is a rock band that still dresses up in the 80's hair band kind of costumes and wears crazy make up. I did some research on them before they came in so that I would know who they were (granted their costumes would be hard to miss). Their a band from the LA area and they sing songs with a KISS kind of feel to it. Their songs are supposed to be kind of a joke, but they still sound good. They have songs called "Just Like Tiger Woods" and "17 Girls In A Row". Their new album is coming out and it's called "Balls Out". Pretty much everything they do is inappropriate, but I actually didn't mind listening to them. I went and greeted them at the door and was surprised to see that they were all wearing jeans and t shirts and sweat shirts. They didn't look like the people I had seen in the pictures at all, but they were extremely nice and very polite. They had a meeting with Monte and then took a little tour of the office; they even came back and talked to all of the interns and introduced themselves. I really liked having them in the office.

Wednesday, November 9th

Today we had to listen to more lyrics. I was not excited about it at all because last time it was extremely difficult to try and understand the lyrics in every song. And to make the job worse, the band that I had to listen to was a rock and roll band that screamed half of their lyrics as opposed to singing them. This project took me literally all day except for the morning hours. I archived and split up the mail like usual, but then I sat at my computer for the rest of the day and tried to listen to those lyrics. There were 11 songs and I split the list in half and gave the other intern 5 of the other songs, but it still took us all day to do. Because the songs weren't released online we had to write all of these out too. I felt like by the end of the job I could sing back all of the songs because I had listened to them so many times. It wasn't a very eventful day and all of the staring at the computer screen made me tired.

Tuesday, November 8th

Today we started another big project. I like working on big projects more than the smaller tasks because it gives me more to do. Today Renata told us that we have to start cleaning out the back closet for the marketing department. If you've ever seen that closet, you would know that it's a complete disaster. Another guy that works no our floor told us that the interns for the past two years have tried to clean out the closet, but no one has been able to because it's such a mess. So Mara and I decided we would try to get through it in the next few days. We went online and ordered about 10 organizers to put everything in and then we started to sort through the boxes in the closet. We have close to 100 shirts with our artists on them, so we organized them in to piles and folded them. Then we found a bunch of PR folders for our artists and had to run all around the office to try and find who was in charge of what artist to see if they wanted to keep the folders. After that we went through the CDs and donated the ones we didn't want and kept the ones we did. We gave more CDs to Tunes for Troops and the children's hospital than we kept. It was a lot of manual labor and running around today.

Monday, November 7th

Today we started another big project. I like working on big projects more than the smaller tasks because it gives me more to do. Today Renata told us that we have to start cleaning out the back closet for the marketing department. If you've ever seen that closet, you would know that it's a complete disaster. Another guy that works no our floor told us that the interns for the past two years have tried to clean out the closet, but no one has been able to because it's such a mess. So Mara and I decided we would try to get through it in the next few days. We went online and ordered about 10 organizers to put everything in and then we started to sort through the boxes in the closet. We have close to 100 shirts with our artists on them, so we organized them in to piles and folded them. Then we found a bunch of PR folders for our artists and had to run all around the office to try and find who was in charge of what artist to see if they wanted to keep the folders. After that we went through the CDs and donated the ones we didn't want and kept the ones we did. We gave more CDs to Tunes for Troops and the children's hospital than we kept. It was a lot of manual labor and running around today.

Friday, November 4th

Today I worked with Blaine nearly the entire day on a project. After doing the usual morning routine of archiving emails and opening mail, another guy that works on our floor came over and asked if we could help him with a lyrics project. He gave us a CD of unreleased songs from the UK and asked if we could listen to every song and write out the lyrics. Because the songs were unreleased, the lyrics weren't any where online. There were about 14 songs on the CD and because all of the artists were British, it was even harder to understand what they were saying. I had to listen to each song about 5 or 6 times just to get every lyric right. The whole project took a while, but we had to get it done by 5 so that helped push us a long a little bit. After we were done with that, we hardly had any time left in the work day to do anything. I did two artist news stories that weren't very eventful, and then I had to run across the street to the super market to buy Monte some apples. After I got back to the office I got to go home. It wasn't a very exciting day because I spent the majority of it sitting at a computer trying to understand lyrics to songs I didn't know.

Thursday, November 3rd

Today I got to work a lot with The Hunger Games. I got to see a lot of unreleased material for the movie. I just finished reading the first and second book in the series and I've started working on the third book so I'm much more in to the whole franchise now. Our label is doing all of the music for the film and I got to work in Monte's office a lot rearranging notecards with possible artists and songs that will go in to the film. I also got to see some unreleased posters from the film which made me much more excited now that I see which actors are playing what characters. After we worked on the music for the film, I got to see some stills from the filming of the movie and that was really fun for me. I love it when my label mixes with the film industry because that's something that I love learning about.

Wednesday, November 2nd

Today the guys from Cash Money records came in. The office was a little excited, like they always are when someone big comes in. I didn't have to do too much because Slim and Baby were in Monte's office with him for practically the entire day. They came out every once in a while to chat with Renata, but because the meeting was hours and hours long, I didn't have to do a lot of the daily routines that I normally do. So I spent my time working on artist news and the website. I've been working on the website for a while and I really just want to get it done and out of the way. But artist news was what took me a while because there was nothing going on in the music world. Everything was taken up by Kim Kardashian's divorce, so other celebrity news got pushed aside. I'm assuming I'll be able to get a few good stories out tomorrow once the Kim K drama has settled down. I didn't know how much something like a huge breaking celebrity story would affect all celebrity news.

Tuesday, November 1st

Today, Renata was really sick so she went home at around noon. That meant that I had to run the office by myself, and while I was extremely nervous, I was kind of excited too. Luckily, Monte took off for London today so my job was to watch the phone lines and answer a few emails that came in to Renata. I had to help a few of the other interns with things they didn't know how to do, like mail UPS and archive emails. I almost felt like the boss for the day, which was kind of cool. But I would never want to do it all the time, it was too stressful. Monte called a lot to check on who called for him, and to check up on when the car would pick up him and where it would take him. It's the most that I've worked with Monte yet and he wasn't even in the office. After writing some artist news to pass the time, I got a pleasant surprise. Another assistant from the other side of the office brought over Javier Colon, who was the singer who won the first season of the voice last year. They came over to grab some CDs for Javier to take back with him. He introduced himself and shook my hand, and he was very nice and polite. I was a little starstruck, but because he was so down to earth he was really easy to talk to. I'm glad that I stayed until 6:30 and didn't leave at 6 because otherwise I wouldn't have gotten to meet Javier.