Life as a CMT Intern

Wow. Life as an intern is certainly tiring work. You work long hours for no pay, but what you do get out of it is excellent job experience and something really cool to tack up on your resume.
But back to the tiring part. It is only 9 at night but I feel like I could go to bed right now. Things are in full swing for the CMT Music Awards which go down tomorrow night at 8/7c. I spent pretty much all day at the arena and everything and everyone down there is in constant motion. People everywhere. Moving band equipment, hunting down something or someone. And everyone is talking on headsets and walkie-talkies. As I checked in for my shift, and was issued a pass that would give me access to all the backstage areas I was also given a list of all the walkie-talkie channels. There are 16 channels and each channel is a designated department. I'm sure if they didn't do this, no one would ever know what is going on since there would probably be a constant stream of conversation.
I spent my day today as a talent escort and will go back and do the exact same thing tomorrow. Basically I pick up the talent as the enter the building and take them wherever they needed to go. And then I stayed with them until they left the building, which meant a lot of standing around waiting for them to move from place to place. I spent almost an hour standing outside a dressing room doing nothing until they gave me the ok to bring that particular person to stage.
On the one hand, this is incredibly boring, but on the other it is incredibly cool. I got to see so many people today and while we weren't really introduced and I definitely couldn't ask for a picture since I was working it was still really awesome.

Here is a list of the people I have seen/met since I started here:
Evan Farmer (host of CMT Top 20 Countdown)
Jeff Dunham
Randy Houser
Trace Adkins
Zac Brown
Lady Antebellum
Miranda Lambert
LeAnn Rimes
Kid Rock
Kellie Pickler
Melissa Peterman
(and the list will keep growing....)