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Happy Friday everyone!

It's always good to count your blessings. I'm extremely grateful for the opportunity Zac and Tracie gave me here at Old Hat. This internship has exposed me to the working world of sports and graphic design, and ironically, my job is not necessarily focused on those two things. In fact, I challenge any of you to find an internship quite like mine. It's extaordinary that I get paid to do what I do.

While there is no typical day or week in my life now, you'll find that this week, I really had some fun.

Monday 1/30

-Zac had been urging me to come up with more "This Week in Sports History" and "Totally False Sports Trivia," so I spent all day making up facts and events about sports. I'm sure you think that's easy. Well, we have a high standard of humor here at Old Hat, so I spent almost all day working on it. Here are a couple that Zac approved: "Tennis players are required to grunt after swings, and can earn extra points for higher volume grunts" and "This Week in 1969: Wilt Chamberlain got into a fight with a 13-year old girl at a Beatles concert."

-Post our random fact of the week: "It is illegal to purchase or consume Jack Daniel's whiskey in the town in which it is produced (Lynchburg, TN).

-Continue to erase the lines I drew to help me post all of our client logos on the wall near my desk. You'll see a sweet timelapse of me putting them up soon.

Tuesday 1/31

-Dig up an old picture of 3 of our employees with body paint spelling "USA" at the World Cup of Softball. I posted this in celebration of the birthday of our friend, the Executive Director of the Amatuer Softball Association.

-Promote our event at the National Sports Forum, where later on we all went and met with some industry professionals while wearing t-shirts that said "Have you ever..." on the front, and something relating to our expertise on the back. Mine said "...Wanted to be liked?" Later that evening we were lucky enough to have a fantastic meal on the floor of the Chesapeake Arena.

Wednesday 2/1

-I was recently put in charge of coordinating our birthday lunches. We have one every month for the people who's birthdays and anniversarys of working at Old Hat are in that month. For February, Old Hat's birthday, Kevin Kelly's birthday (actually Jan 29) and Tracie's 2 year anniversary are being celebrated. I picked up platters of food from a local deli and we all watched "Better Off Dead," starring a young John Cusack, in our lounge. Yes, we have a lounge, with a soda machine. And yes, I said soda, even though everyone else here calls it pop. Not a few hours later the cookie pizzas we order every month arrived. Those are freaking delicious, made by Nancy, a local baker. 

-Post a picture of us watching the movie at lunch, and invited people to guess what we were watching. Didn't take very long for people to figure it out!

-Continue to try and erase those pencil marks on the wall. Why on earth did I do that???

Thursday 2/2

-Start writing portions of our weekly newsletter. Dane is in charge of that, but usually recruits me to help out with the writing and posting the work on our site. Dane and I have very different senses of humor, so I usually write something, send it to him, and he puts his verbage, idioms, and other big words that no one has heard of into them. 

-Nearly go viral by posting the poster Brian made for Niagara Basketball, with the caption: "What's ONE WORD to describe this poster?" How could you not respond with a sweet poster like this?

Friday 2/3

-Start writing this blog that I had completely forgotten about. Attempt to describe my job (which really can't be done) by providing a recap of the week, with screenshots, parentheses, and jokes that are probably only funny to me.

And here we are. Today Dane and I are going to put the finishing touches on our newsletter and later on, film a video of him being abused, part of our illustrious series,  Abuse The Intern.

Seriously, can you find a internship more fun than this??