K.C.R.W. is a radio station located at Santa Monica College. It exists to serve the public audience and part of that servitude involves an hour of Alice Pieszecki adding her personal take on the events of the day. While other hours of the day can be filled with music and news of the day including local, national, and international, for Alice’s show, The Chart the news and events are on a personal level.

She takes a deep breath before the microphone is clicked on.

Alice: You’re listening to The Chart on K.C.R.W. I’m Alice Pieszecki, and here’s where I talk about the usual stuff. You know, the work at L.A. Magazine and the freelance work and showin’ on up on that T.V. show, The Look every week, and so on and so forth and all that jazz-pop.

She looks around the studio, including across the window in front of her, where the board-op is sure to watch both Alice and the levels on the board.

Alice: My life doesn’t really revolve around my work as you know. It’s important. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fun being able to do all the things I do, but the last twenty-four hours of my life reminds me of how hectic life can be. Twenty-four hours ago, I was here and about to venture into the night for dinner with friends. There’s still B and T, together, expecting, and paranoid. There I am with them and the rest of my friends. Well, except for Coach. He’s still M.I.A. at this point for reasons I’ve already covered on here. We have our dinner at this really nice restaurant. So L.A. At this point, I’ve got Writer who’s feeling a little distraught, because she still can’t convince Coach that the world’s not a bad place since their split. There’s Writer’s friend, Tomorrow. She’s not too happy about Writer being distraught. There’s Rockstar and Player who are just happy to be there. There’s me. I’m just happy to be there. Big Sis is with us. We’re doing our best to ignore the elephant in the room. That’s us. We’re the elephant in the room. We watch the world spin around and sometimes I wonder if we’re taking part or if we’re just watching.