routine

0Josh • 4th Oct 2004 • blog entries, nome., station life

Twelve hours from now will be three weeks in Nome. Its pretty hard to believe for multiple reasons. First off, I must adapt to my surroundings pretty quickly, because our house feels like home, the station feels like work (in a good….daily routine way), and somehow, 30 degrees doesn’t feel that cold anymore. Seems like a pretty quick transition for just three weeks, eh? Well, that’s only half of it. Its been three weeks and I’m still getting used to being on the radio, I’m still trying to train myself to annunciate more while on air, and I’m still not sure where the bathroom in the station is (when home is only 10 seconds away…i’m not really motivated to ask). I also haven’t found a place to get plugged into, I haven’t really developed any relationships outside of KICY, and attended my first church service in town just yesterday morning. Despite the aspects of transition that I’ve yet to overcome, things are going really well.

Lydia is Anchorage right now…and its kind of weird to have a semi-large house all to myself. Its only been two days, but I’ve already watched five movies. But, I did go running yesterday, and plan to regularly for the rest of the week. I would have gone this evening, but my planning was a little off and by the time I was finished watching “Supersize Me!“, the sun had already gone down. I guess I’ll have to be more observant of the sun’s position in the sky over the next few weeks and months, as it changes very rapidly here.

Over the past week Lydia & I have pretty much just been working and relaxing at home. We often walk during the evenings, and last week we found the Nome Rec Center, where all KICY volunteers get free membership! Lydia has already gone to workout, and has joined a women’s basketball league. This weekend we slept in! Saturday we hung out around the house, and then walked around downtown…with a lunch at Subway! That’s right, Nome’s only national food chain. Jared would be proud. We had an interesting conversation with a man who has lived in Nome for over 25 years, and is a pilot for “Bering Air.

Lydia spent most of Saturday afternoon doing laundry and packing, while I was waiting at the station for over an hour to interview Mr. Edgar Blatchford, the Alaska state Commissioner of the Department of Community & Economic Development. Mr. Commissioner never showed. Its ok, my journalistic aptitude has landed a great interview for this Thursday. I’ll be interviewing in the studio, Tony Knowles. Tony is a former two-term Alaska state governor and current candidate for US Senate. I’m already working on research, and questions. I didn’t ever imagine that my jump into radio would include such a big splash in the journalism field, but I’m very excited.