It only took me until the sixth week of my internship …

… but the workaholic in me finally kicked in. (I can't believe it's already been six weeks.)

So basically, I have 248453 projects I'm working on, and I got pretty stressed out.

Tuesday night I saw Feist and Grizzly Bear, which was absolutely amazing. And sold out. And free. I went by myself (because I couldn't get a +1 and it was sold out), and was right in front against the barricade. With Grizzly Bear, I had listened to their most recent album, Yellow House, but didn't get that into it, but when I saw them live it all made sense. So when I went back to listen to the album again it was sooo much better. Can't wait to see them again at Pitchfork next month. And Feist just kicked a lot of ass, because she's Feist and that's what she does.

I went to Venus on Wednesday and didn't have time to work on my review of the show because I interviewed the third sister from Eisley and had a bunch of other stuff going on. Long story short, I sat at a café down the street from me for three hours last night working on my review and coming up with questions to ask Kathryn Calder from the New Pornographers, who I was supposed to interview at 10 a.m. today.

I was super stressed, and didn't finish my review like I was supposed to (but I was up until almost 2 a.m. working on stuff), and felt totally unprepared for my interview.

Got up early this morning to finish the review and make sure my questions were OK, and sacrificed my hygiene for my job (as in I didn't shower). And at 9:17 a.m. I was still stressed and feeling unprepared, about to get ready to go to work, but then Lauren (publishers' assistant) calls me to let me know that someone from the UK is calling about my interview to see if I can do it immediately. I frantically packed up my stuff and hauled my ass to the office (thank god it's only a six-minute walk), because I couldn't record the interview with my cell phone or our cordless house phone.

So I rushed around like a mad-woman, but did the interview (which went a lot better than I expected), and finished my review about an hour and a half later. Luckily, my editor asked me if I wanted the day just to write, which reeeeally helped me out.

But at the end of the day, I remember that I actually love what I'm doing, and I think it'd help if I told myself that during the times I'm really stressed.

And on a lighter note, I reviewed the new Polyphonic Spree album. Also, this weekend should be a lot of fun.