Your Weekly Townsend Fix Column 53

Hey Everyone! Ok so if you think that I've totally neglected you, you're wrong. All of you have been on my mind for the past week. I've been totally busy. So busy that you wouldn't believe me if I told you how busy I was. You want to see how my schedule worked? Check this out.... Sunday: A birthday luncheon for my gramma's birthday and Mel had to cheerlead at a game with her arm in a sling...again. Monday: It's Monday need I say more? Well actually I had a internship interview @ WiLD 94.9. I thought everything was great. I was going to leave at 5 to allow time to get there for a 5:30 meeting. I was running "ahead of schedule" so i decided to check the mail that i got from the guy I've been corresponding with through email and saw that it was at 4:30 not 5:30. What time was it? 4:40! I hauled ass over to the station and there was baseball practice! (The downside was also that the Giants lost that night.) I go to the station and saw Renell from 98.1 Kiss FM and her director..(whose name I have to get) was the nicest guy ever. I'm sitting in the elevator going up and down spilling my guts out to this guy I just met and had no idea of who he was. He told me he'd help me get into the interview i was late for. Right before we got out of the elevator he introduced himself as the Promotions Director of BOTH Kiss & KMEL. I instantly felt like a dork and he said that he'd be more than happy to have a sit down with me. Too bad I didn't catch his name! He sat me in the reception office and told me to have a seat while he went to go find the meeting. I sat for 10 minutes and he came out and said "Man you are late...you better be good." And took me into a room with some people from the Party Crew, Hood Rat Miguel, Show Biz, and a few other people from the station. Show Biz recognized me and said I was late. (No kidding.) They started asking me questions with the other candidates and I was intimidated. They sat me at the end of the row next to a girl in her 20s who has had a job that works 40 hours a week. (The internship requires 20.) They started asking questions at the other end and then they flipped it and started questioning me. I swear to you i almost cried, I could only look at show biz and I think his name is Jacob...(or was it Unibrow?) anyways I couldn't even look at Ray because I wanted to run out of there crying. But in the end i stayed strong and got out of there as fast as i could. Tuesday: I started having some pain the night before and they felt like sharp pricks on my left side. Today it completely got worse and they're coming in waves of 15 minute intervals of sharp pains that last about a minute. And today I continue to sulk on the interview Monday. But Melanie won her student council elections today thanks to a very special poster Holly helped out with! Wednesday: The pain's worse the intervals are every 10 minutes and the pain lasts about 2 minutes. And today there's a Founder's Day mass at my school so everything's going to be off schedule. Thursday: I'm convinced the pain is going to be the cause of my death in a short 24 hours...or at least thats how it feels. It's my friday since we get the day of Senior prom off at school so at least now I can suffer these pains in my PJs. See how my week was?! If anything this pain has been what's been causing me to delay this. I seriously don't know what it is and I'm petrified of going to a doctor to see what it may be. I know of about 50 people who are going to tell me to go see a doctor and stuff. Well...I'm not seeing a doctor. Amy and Courtney both tell me to go see a doctor but I'm deathly afraid of it. Anyways the guys? Well the guys have no idea i'm suffering from this chronic pain. I don't want to tell them either. I talked to Dom before all of this started up. He was so adorable. He said that it was "nice to hear i was alright." He said it as if he thought i was dead or something. He was cute though i missed talking to him. He said that there's a lot going on that we all don't see and that he misses work. He says he feel's "unproductive." Dom feeling unproductive? Geez...I guess he really can't stand it. I tried explaining to him that they kinda hit the ground running and now they're stopped and it's something they need to get used to. But I think that Dom and the rest of the guys are used to a non-stop schedule and now that they're getting the well deserved break that it's more work to handle it than to do the rock star work. Can you believe that he wants to work? I"m serious, if I were him I would've been BEGGING for a break after the first week of school shows. But I'm also lazy so we have to take that into the factoring too. But really, Townsend DID hit the ground running, the were working at the station and became a group WHILE working there, managing jobs at the same time, after they left the station they found managment, after they established the group they were up with the promotions, press, recording, dancing, finding deals, and handling the woes of losing two members. This is their first break since them NOT being a group. When they decided to do this, I have no idea if any of them had in mind the whirlwind of all the work that would be involved. They literally hit the ground running with "keep going" the only two words in mind. I tend to believe that this is all of their mentalities though. All of the guys have always been busy. They have always had lives. Nick and Dom were Prez and VP of their classes, did every which sport, and managed to be heartthrobs in high school. Ryan had Junior olympics and skiing nearly every weekend of the season, Matt has been singing since sophomore year and has done track, and Todd, the jock of the group has been doing sports since he could walk. I guess they're used to it, they're probably immune to the fact that they're probably 5 of the busiest people in the world. I was supposed to call Nick over this past week to see if he wanted to go work out at the gym with his bro and matt and then this pain kicked in so I never got around to it. I tried calling him on my way home monday to try and schedule some gym time in for this week but got pretty distracted by my bus ride. I was sitting next to my classmate Nick (another Nick) and he was pretty annoying...in the adorable sense. I made like 3 phone calls and he's probably the worst person to have next to you while you're talking to your mom. We made conversation and we were talking about "my boy band" and he seemed almost too interseted for a baseball/football/basketball player...but he was. We were talking about everything and it was cool the way he thought it was all interesting. I know that Nick was more intersted in the dollar signs initially sparking the conversation but when he asked me "If you were in a girl group would it be worth all the money for you?" and I said "No." he got the point that there's no pay check that could ever in the world pay for all the work done. Sometimes I worry that the guys MAY over do it someday and one of them gets treated for dehydration...no wait that's happened. Sometimes I worry that the guys MAY over do it someday and one of them pops a knee or something...no wait that's happened. Somtimes I worry that the guys MAY over do it someday and one of them is going to show it on his face...no wait that's happened. I think the guys have over done it plenty of times and they just don't know that they have. It's a job where you can't take a day off for your sister's birthday. It's not a job where you can call in sick in the morning and rest up. And it's certainly not a job where there's a handbook listing the precautions of possible accidents and no nos on the job. You have to learn as you go and not stop when you screw up. It's hard if you think about it. It is though a job where you must earn respect from a lot of people, it doesn't come with a lot of pats on the back, you have to earn them first. Tough love sometimes but I must admit that the guys show no sign of slowing down or even wanting to. There's a good thing because I"m getting tired just watching them. Stay Safe & Stay You Love Always, Kristen xoxoxo

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