Hey! Guess where I am?

Today was the first day of my internship here at Whiskey Media, and so far, things are just swell. Like any good (read: overexcited) intern, I showed up to my first day of work 45 minutes early and kind of just sat around until Sean Coonce showed up and let me in. After setting all my belongings down, I promptly checked in on foursquare, inadvertently ousting Matt Rorie as the office's Mayor. WHOOPS / GREAT.

My week 1 intern duties include doing trailers and promos for Anime Vice, doing a little bit of manual labor and keeping the coffee flowing. Ethan assures me my duties will get more fun over the course of the next two months, but the other four interns assure me that Ethan is a liar. (They didn't actually say that.)

As much as a pain in the ass as actually moving from North Carolina to San Francisco was (short version: my flights were delayed and my luggage was temporarily lost), it's awesome to be here. I made sure to bring with me many culinary bribes to ensure that everyone loved me right away, and so far, it's working: Ryan is currently drinking some of the NC-exclusive Cheerwine soda I took here with me, and Steve seems quietly thrilled about the 3rd Degree Burn Scorchin' Habanero Doritos I brought him. Success!

All told, today was pretty damn productive considering I just got here: I posted a video to Anime Vice, created a few wiki tasks on Giant Bomb, and cleaned the whole entire kitchen! Gettin' things DONE, you guys.

It was also pretty productive considering the power went out for a while. Like, all the way out. Much as it did in the original Giant Bomb offices back in 2009, the lights simultaneously went out and all the non-laptop technology in the office completely stopped working (power outages tend to have that effect). With no lights and no clear ETA on when they'd be back on, two things happened: we shot a Kessler Kam episode (expect that later this week) and Ryan had me perform the classic intern task of leaving to get him lunch. It didn't quite go as perfectly as I would have liked, but it turns out that Ryan Davis is not the wrathful, unforgiving god you might expect. He is a lovely person.

And that's kind of my takeaway from Day 1 here at Whiskey: this is an office full of lovely people. The other four interns embraced me with open arms (not literally, thank christ), and all the permanent staff members have been ultrafriendly. Day 1 is just ending, and I'm already looking forward to Day 2. Is that weird?