Good event
Oct. 16th, 2011 11:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
athenaltenaSo the DJ event went pretty well, though it did get off to a rocky start since I was supposed to be there at 8:30 and had set my alarm for 7... but it didn't go off. So I woke up at 8:30 and proceeded to haul ass down to the Esplanade. I even tried to hail a cab, but Murphy's Law being Murphy's Law I couldn't find one, but got down there in time. Luckily the event didn't even start until 10:30, but I have being late when I say I'll do something.
But once that was settled, we got everything cued up and people seemed to like it. I seemed to have struck the right balance between top 40 stuff and classic rock. I also snuck a Rufus Wainwright song in there, just because. They also had me read off the names of people who won a raffle since I was "the voice of the station" and I think I did okay. It was a little embarrassing when a few of the people we drew had already left, so we had to do it again.
I was also glad I decided to wear my thermal hoodie since it was fairly warm, but windy, and I regretted not wearing long sleeves under it. The wind also meant that stuff kept tipping over, so besides DJing I also was on "pick things up off the ground" duty. It was also slightly unfortunate that the DJ booth was in the shade instead of the sun, so I was about 5 degrees colder than everyone else.
I was also a little surprised when they entered me into a raffle for the student volunteers and I won a metric shitton of hair products. Seriously. Oh well, I'm not complaining. Overall I think we earned major brownie points for the station.
Hey, I suppose if I get some audio equipment of my own I could even do DJing as a side job.
But once that was settled, we got everything cued up and people seemed to like it. I seemed to have struck the right balance between top 40 stuff and classic rock. I also snuck a Rufus Wainwright song in there, just because. They also had me read off the names of people who won a raffle since I was "the voice of the station" and I think I did okay. It was a little embarrassing when a few of the people we drew had already left, so we had to do it again.
I was also glad I decided to wear my thermal hoodie since it was fairly warm, but windy, and I regretted not wearing long sleeves under it. The wind also meant that stuff kept tipping over, so besides DJing I also was on "pick things up off the ground" duty. It was also slightly unfortunate that the DJ booth was in the shade instead of the sun, so I was about 5 degrees colder than everyone else.
I was also a little surprised when they entered me into a raffle for the student volunteers and I won a metric shitton of hair products. Seriously. Oh well, I'm not complaining. Overall I think we earned major brownie points for the station.
Hey, I suppose if I get some audio equipment of my own I could even do DJing as a side job.
