Full February

Happy February everybody!

This month turned into a very busy one for me.  I got hired as a marketing intern at the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.  I have been there for two weeks now and have had a good time.  I’ve been doing random work for the marketing department similar to how I’ve done random work at NKU actually.  I applied there on a whim to try and get some experience in a nonprofit even though I didn’t have marketing experience, but they hired me anyway.  I’m hoping I can turn this (unpaid) internship into a full-time job there in May. 

At the Aronoff I worked the Cincinnati Ballet’s “King Arthur” and Chris Rock’s stand-up show.  “King Arthur” was a really cool mix of story and dance and nothing I’d seen before from them.  I look forward to more of those types of shows.  Chris Rock was, as you’d expect, hilarious.  He had some very insightful and humorous material.  Coming up is “Something Rotten” which is supposed to be awesome.

Around the department at NKU we had our ASPA-MPA dinner last week.  Our guest speakers Kevin Wright and Joe Nickol gave a great talk on neighborhood revitalization in the area.  I have been doing interview transcriptions for Dr. Misis and it has been…slow going.  Hopefully I’ll finish it during spring break and can be done with it forever.  My capstone project, a survey of local city and county managers, was approved by IRB and should be sent out to the NKCCMA soon.  I need to start working on the literature review part of it soon.  I’m getting the pre-stress stress for it.  It’ll hit me when we get back from spring break and I’ll realize I need to get it done. 

March will bring more stress and more job hunting. 

As always thanks for stopping by!