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So it’s been about a month since I started interning here at Bravo. I must say thanks to the summer interns because reading their blogs got me really excited to start working. I just hope mine are up to par.

As Rich explained in an earlier blog, the Bravo offices are constructed like a glass maze which often leads to awkward encounters in the hallways. This is quite true, especially when you take into consideration the high-security of these halls. In order to get from door to door you must have an NBC ID that swipes you in. This includes the front door, the door to publicity, the door to the executive offices AND the door the bathroom.

Now, being an intern one doesn’t have as much clout as you may think. It took awhile for me to get an ID and therefore I spent quite some time lingering by the doors holding newspapers and whatnot, trying to act like it was a coincidence I happened to be by the door when a staff member was around to swipe me in. As I mentioned before, you need your ID to get to the rest rooms so you can imagine other difficulties that occurred in the when I didn’t have my ID. I didn’t want my supervisors to think I had been lingering around the building instead of doing work when in actuality I was locked out! Now thankfully, I have a fully functioning ID and no longer have to keep my eyes peeled for an NBC staffer to get me through the doors.

As a publicity intern I flip through the newspapers and magazines for mentions of our shows. It was natural that I had Tim Gunn on my mind last week as I had been reading countless articles on him for the past few weeks. Last Tuesday I was coming out of the far elevator banks near the SNL studios and as I looked up I noticed a fair haired man being followed by a camera making his way down the hallway towards me. I gasped when I realized that it was Tim Gunn! The Tim Gunn, the man I had been reading so much about (and, by the way, I read that he is a very nice person!). I made my way down the hall wishing that I hadn't gotten dressed in my dark closet that morning as I was about to meet Bravo’s style guru.

I didn’t want to seem like an immature intern so I kept my cool and pretended to be really interested in the wall as I made my way towards Tim. I built up the courage to tear my eyes from the wall to give him a smile and hope for a hello when I realized I had mistaken Tim Gunn for Chevy Chase! (It must be said that I have bad eyesight and it is a long hallway...) Chevy no doubt was making his way down to the SNL studios and while it was exciting to see him I had my hopes set on seeing Mr. Gunn. And, no offense to Chevy Chase, but I think Tim Gunn would have worn something a little sharper when being filmed!

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