So anyway, on Thursday, I did my two hours on-air, co-hosting during the current pledge drive.

This meant getting up at the ungodly time of 6.15.

I know that some of you are probably saying, "but Max, I get up at that time every day of the working week", but remember:

1) I've been out of work for over a year
2) It's all very well being up at 6am, if you've had a full night's sleep by then.

As it goes, I couldn't sleep the night before. Try as I might, my eyes were wide awake until sometime after 3am. This of course meant that by 6.15am, I'd had about three hours sleep.

I can typically survive on 4-5 hours a night, but 3 hours, followed by live radio, isn't so easy. Add to that, the fact that as it's a pledge drive, we're supposed to be extra-enthusiastic, and our voices full of energy, and you can see why I nearly announced on-air:

"This show is brought to you with the letter 'C', and the number 5. C stands for caffeine, and five is the number of mugs of coffee I plan on consuming in the next two hours."

Anyway, apparently the two hours (one on the breakfast show, and one on the mid-morning show) pulled in the target number of donations, and the boss was happy.

As I was about to leave, it transpired that someone who was due on-air to co-host, hadn't shown, so I ended up doing an extra hour. Of course, by this stage, I'd had waaaaaay too much coffee, and so whilst there was plenty of energy in my voice, I was in danger of turning into Beavis, and declaring, "I am Cornholio! I need TP for my ...." I'll spare you any more detail, however, if you've seen Beavis and Butthead, you'll know rest of that routine

Today, I was back, running the board for a show, and had a great time. All the fun of playing with the equipment without having to talk (yes, it was hell!)

There was a live performance from Buckner's Funkin' Jazz - a band who's name you have to be so careful about pronouncing correctly on-air.

They rocked. They were loud. I was a little big impressed.

I'm on, chatting away again next Wednesday (1-3pm) and "board-op"-ing from 7-9pm. I'm then on, co-hosting on Thursday night and again on the following Saturday.

Of course, if someone falls ill or fails to show, I'll likely be on-air then too!