Everyone should be lucky enough to intern at a record label. Last week I hung out with an artist. Today I discovered an entire chest of drawers full of CDs. I am never going to listen to the same thing twice again in my life.

Some people might say they “play around on MySpace and Facebook all day,” but for me, that’s not far from the truth. It’s not even noon yet and I have already logged time on three different artists’ MySpace profiles, Facebook pages, and official websites.

Around here, today is a big deal, the release of a major album. If you knew how many blurbs I have written, how many contests I have posted about, or how many previews of tracks I have publicized, all about this one album, you would realize how exciting today is. Today is the culmination of all of our hard work.

As I am writing this, I am finally listening to the whole CD. I’ve heard a few tracks before, but not the CD in its entirety. It would sure have stunk to have been working all this time for a CD I ended up hating. Luckily, upon first listen, the album sounds pretty good. I have a few favorite tracks that I haven’t previously heard. And of course, the first single. I have probably heard the first single a billion times, or at least the beginning of it a billion times. Every time I sign into the artist’s MySpace it auto-plays the song. I hear the first ten seconds of the first single in my dreams.

So for now, allow me to bask in the glory of officially releasing my first CD with the record company. Even if I am merely an intern, and in the grand scheme of things I have done very little, I am still excited.

-Eric