Busy Couple of Days

As my whirlwind internship continues, I have had quite the busy past couple days.

On Friday, the Prague trip was starting to wind down for my colleagues who went overseas.  As part of the trip they took a ton of pictures of their experience to post it on our site.  I got the distinct pleasure of getting to caption all 66 photos.  It was a whole lot of fun to see the little details of the trip.  For anyone who has not done captions for photography it can get  relatively difficult throughout the process.  Why is that you might ask.
1.  You try not to repeat a caption.  When there a lot of pictures of the team warming up, there are only about three ways to describe stretching.
2.  During practice the players don't have names or numbers on their jerseys.  Identifying players can be next to impossible if it is a zoomed out shot.

Then after I was captioning all the pictures, Art asked me to transcribe two interviews.  One of Tyler Seguin the other of GM Peter Chiarelli.  The two interviews totaled about 10 minutes.  The two took me about a half hour to transcribe.  This task is very difficult depending on how quickly the person talks and how well they enunciate each word.   The Seguin interview proved to be a somewhat difficult task.   Between filler words (like, ummmm, like) and the speed he was talking I had to continue rewinding the footage to make sure I quoted Seguin correctly.  The Chiarelli interview was longer but considerably easier.  He enunciated every single word, and spoke reasonably slowly, which made my job easier.  There are two very big differences between the two people. Seguin is a hockey player, it is not particularly his job to be speaking to the public.  He is getting payed to help put the puck in the net.  Chiarelli makes the big bucks for speaking for players and the organization.  So, I understand.

I had Monday off.  Thank you Christopher Columbus.

Ok, back to work.  I actually got to do something with Photoshop today.  Jason Levine found out that I have an extensive background in Adobe Photoshop.  So, I got to create the little logos that will be featured in Joe Haggerty's Power Rankings.  I just had to do some basic Photoshop work, but it was something new and fun that I knew I could do.