Friday, December 9th

Today, Monte had back to back meetings so it was hard to get in to his office to get any of his work done. So we did a lot of tasks for Renata like placing more drink and office supply orders. We ordered more CDs that we're out of…even though we don't have any room for them ever since we got tens and tens of Rolling Stones CDs in. I ran over to staples to buy a few things for the office that we couldn't wait for. I got some binders and dividers and some USB keys. It didn't take me very long, and since I was out Renata said that I could take a longer lunch. So Mara and I took our time around the city a little and stopped at Lenny's Cafe across the street and ate and talked about what we were going to do next semester. Mara is staying at Republic, but is working over on the publicity side of things. So she won't be working for Monte anymore. I've been thinking about talking to Renata about staying on for another semester to learn some more things and really get in to the industry a little more. Once we got back to the office, we finished up all of the artist news and did some expenses with Renata. After that, we did little tasks here and there to wrap up the day.

Thursday, December 8th

Today we started off by doing all of the normal things, and we had to do them on time and fast because Monte was back in the office. I archived his emails and went through Renata's emails to update contacts and schedule appointments. After that, I had to help post some notecards on Monte's board of upcoming projects, but that only took me about a half an hour. After lunch, we got a huge shipment of the new Amy Winehouse CD in, and we had to do a lot of promotional work with the album today since it came out this week. We wrote some specific artist news stories about Amy and the album, and then we sent copies of the CD out to important business partners of Monte. We had to personally deliver 10 copies of the CD to a woman who lives on the upper west side. So I got to get out of the office for a bit and drive with Danny (Monte's driver) to the apartment and hand deliver the CDs. It was nice to get out of the office, but once I got back it was the normal work of art its news and mailings.

Wednesday, December 7th

Today, Monte was still gone, so we got to take it easy. I mean easy as in we hardly did any work all day. We went through and did the usual morning routine like we always do. We archived Monte's emails and went through and added contacts to the call sheet and scheduled some meetings for Monte. We opened up all of his mail and put it in a UPS box to send to his house, and then we did the artist news stories. It usually takes us a while to find the stories and write them up and post them on the website with pictures and links, but today we have everything done by noon. Renata, Mara and I sat around and worked out what the rest of the year will look like schedule wise, and it didn't really look any different than what we're doing now. We did it to waste some time because we completed all of our work so early. For the rest of the day I did some Christmas shopping online and then we did some crossword puzzles. Renata let us go early and emailed us a few tasks to do once we got home. All in all, it was a very easy day.

Tuesday, December 6th

Today Monte left to go out of town for just two days. He's going to Nashville for a day to work on some Hunger Games stuff and then going to Baltimore tomorrow to work on some Cash Money projects. When Monte is gone, we take it pretty easy, but today we had a lot of little tasks to do. We went through all of the expenses and finished them and mailed them out to Monte's accountant. It was about 3 weeks worth of expenses that Monte had in his office that he forgot to give us, so that took us a while to work on. Then after we were done with those, we got a huge shipment of Rolling Stones CDs, DVDs, and box sets. We spent the next hour trying to find places to stash all of these things. We each got to take home a box set though, and they're worth about 150 dollars a piece and make the perfect present for a father or uncle. So it was like I was working and Christmas shopping at the same time. After that, we did some cleaning and organizing with the new shelves that were shipped in. The office looked nice by the end of the day, and we got to leave early. It was a pretty early Tuesday.

Monday, December 5th

Today Mara and I got to go outside of the office to work. The team for Amy Winehouse is releasing a new album of some of her songs that she recorded but never released. And before new albums are released, we have listening sessions. Usually the only listening sessions I do are small ones for small bands in an office down the hall. But this listening session had a lot of important people from the business who all dressed up to come listen to and remember Amy. Mara and I got to go down the street a ways and check people in at the door. We did what you would normally do when you hear of people checking others in at the door. It was pretty simple and didn't take very long. But after we were done working, we got to go in and join the listening session. It was a really cool experience to be able to hear some of Amy's music before the general public did. It was nice to get out of the office for a bit and to be able to listen to good music while we were at it. I wish that we got more out of office tasks to do.

Friday, December 2nd

Today we had Kid Cudi come in to the office. We had to put up a Kid Cudi board and change the sign outside the lounge to his name. Preparing for an artist to come in is just a routine for the interns now, so it doesn't take us long at all to get around to the key points in the office and change what needs to be changed. It was really exciting because I'm a huge fan of his and I got to meet him and shake his hand and say hi and all of that good stuff. He was here for a meeting with Monte, which he was in for quite a while. They were in Monte's office for about two hours and then they moved to the lounge. The lounge is where they listen to artist's new songs or songs that they bring in that belong to other artists. They were listening to a few new tracks from Kid Cudi's unreleased album. It's always kind of cool to be able to listen to the new music before it's released to anyone else. They were in the lounge for about an hour and the Kid Cudi left and the office went back to doing the normal work. For the rest of the day, we wrote some artist news stories about Kid Cudi and put up some pictures of him in our office. The artists always take the time to snap a few promotional shots with Monte and Avery.

Thursday, December 1st

Today we did a lot of work with The Hunger Games. The movie doesn't come out until March, but our label is heavily involved in the film because we're supplying some music for it. We worked in Monte's office listening to sample songs matched with sample scenes and helped him rearrange the note card board that has all of the artists that will be featured in the film. Whenever we work with Monte, it's always a fun project. I was super excited to be able to do work like that today because I just finished reading the Hunger Games books and I'm obsessed with them. So any work I get to do in the office that's related to it, I love. We had to take down some notes of what we liked and didn't like and what we thought fit and didn't fit. It was neat to play even a very very small role in a film that will be huge. After we were done helping Monte, we got to do some more research for the film like watching the official trailer over and over and taking notes on it, and reading up on peoples' reactions and responses on Facebook and Twitter. All in all, it was a fun day.