Internship Day 1

I started work today! Tim is great.  He's clearly a teacher, and kept showing me how to do different things.  He also taught me a lot about lighting and the colors lights give off that our eyes automatically adjust, so it's hard for us to see.  He contracts out to a lot of places, and it's currently a busy time.  We took staff pictures for Katherine-Clark, an international company that makes Kleenex and things like that.  I got to help set everything up and take things down.  We also looked through a bunch of his photos since he just returned from Turkey, and he taught me a lot more things I can do in Photoshop.  It was really interesting how he's not named on a lot of his product work.  For example, a woman got in touch with him to take photos and sent him a brochure to show him examples, without realizing that one page of the brochure was made up of his photos.  That was pretty cool though, seeing what his work is used for.  We also talked a lot about Apple products, since he has both a Mac and a PC for different functions.  He's a pro with computers by the way, except for slow typing, which he admitted was one thing he couldn't quite figure out.  It was a really good first day and I can't wait for the rest.

Oh, I also joined the gym today because we found a Scoopon (it's like Groupon) deal for $20 for 6 weeks, which is the amount of time we have left.  I went with Hanna and there are a bunch of machines that are numbered and it's supposed to be a 30 minute full body workout if you go through them all.  We wanted to figure out how to use them so we started, but we on some we got confused and then this guy became like our personal trainer, explaining to us what we were doing wrong and how to use the machines correctly.  It was pretty fun.  Anyway, now I have to start taking advantage of the gym, but since I am getting into a routine it should be easier.

Fun Facts:
1.  If I were to dig a hole through the world from Highland Park (aka home) I would end up in the ocean, but the closest place would be Perth (aka the Southwest corner of Australia)- also that's called an antipode.

2.  The furthest you can be from any point in the world is about 12,000 miles.  (So Digital Digital Get Down by NSYNC is wrong since you can't be 20,000 miles away unless you're in space... though was it in space? I don't remember the video)

3.  The phrase back in harness means back to work (Tim used it since he's back from vacation).