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| I hate you people!!! Part 324 |
| 11.11.09 (11:52 pm) [edit] |
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I have decided that I want to single handedly kill every member of my music video group. There were two people out of six I was sort of cool with, but I want to kill them now too. I have been trying desperately to write a draft of my thesis proposal. It has been neglected over and over again because of the music video. This is about the last chance I have to turn one in. The editor was supposed to get some pictures for me to copy. He has been ignoring the project because he has another class project he has been doing. I have been feverishly trying to finish my first draft by Thursday.
Meanwhile, somebody decides that Thursday, the day that everyone has class is an ideal day to shoot the video. This would require drawing the pictures for the project by Thursday. Nobody asked me if this was something I was willing or able to do right now; it was just assumed that I would drop everything and focus on this. And when I asked why it couldn't be done this weekend (by which time my schedule would be slightly clearer and I could make some good drawings) I was told because it's one guy's birthday, and another girl is going to god knows where she goes every weekend which has caused us to push deadlines around before. Call me silly or old fashioned, but, when your in school, shouldn't that be number one? So I stayed up all night yesterday to work on my thesis and its still not done and too short. I spent a chunk of time tonight running around for this fucking project. And the drawings I made for it, because they were rushed are half-assed and f'ugly. The editor gets all the time he needs to do his part of the project because of other factors competing for his attention but I don't get more time because of my other factors. Isn't that awesome? But the important thing, when compiling the final project I had hoped would be a portfolio piece, is that everyone had a nice weekend during production. "The video looks like shit." "Yes, but I had a nice birthday." "Yes but going wherever for the umpteenth time was way better than having the project I invested time, energy, and money in turn out well." |
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| Body Image Research |
| 11.09.09 (9:52 am) [edit] |
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Dear Researchers,
The world does not need any more studies showing a link between media consumption and poor body image. We get it; the more TV/Magazines/Movies you watch worse you will feel about yourself. The results are unlikely to change unless you get funding from Pro-Ana Nation to prove otherwise or do it in such a unique way like, "Body image of one-armed Portuguese black women and prolonged exposure to The Flintstones". When there is so much information on a topic that other researchers compile all the info that's out there and analyze that, clearly we are at a saturation point. Doing research is obviously not going to make people stop feeling bad about themselves or the media stop perpetuating it. It would be nice if both parties were more aware but that is not the case. So please, find something new to talk about. Here's a free research topic for anyone who was considering body image: The media's role in making girls feel like they need to spend hundreds of dollars on animal-tested products made from recycled grease. Thank you. P.S. The above goes for prolonged television and aggression too. |
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| Merry Christmas!! |
| 11.01.09 (7:43 pm) [edit] |
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Good. Teh internets are working again. I need to remind myself next year to not go into any stores except for the grocery stores because it depresses me. Three weeks before Halloween and stores have Christmas shit up. Then by the time Christmas gets here, you're so sick of it because you've been seeing it for over two months. I still wish Thanksgiving didn't get completely glossed over. This is a big pet peeve of mine. So you can imagine how I feel seeing this shit before Halloween is even here. Anyway, I dressed up as Wednesday Addams for my class and my internship. It was a well-received costume. Nobody did any work at the internship when I was there. I just ate lunch, and hung out with my supervisor and one of the talents and talked about 60's music. Last night was the last night of Haunt at Great America (obviously). My bucolic maze of possessed scarecrows had grown men falling over from being so scared. Yet they gave maze of the year to the sexy, elaborate (but short) new maze of toys gone awry in what was clearly a rigged game. I've also heard our Haunt in general is way better than Knott's Berry Farm's. Welp, good riddance anyway. I never want to hear the phrases "Hillary Clinton" "Give you a hand" or "more cowbell" ever again just from hearing them over and over. At some point in the final night of this adventure it occurred to me that everyone was calling me "The president's wife" or saying I looked like some other first lady. The next person that said, "President's wife" I think I might have yelled back at them, "I'm the secretary of state! I'm practically the third most powerful person in this country! Stop defining me by my husband, moron!" It never happened and they wouldn't've been able to hear me anyway. It occurs to me how much that must suck for the real Ms. Rodham-Clinton. Next year I don't have to wear a mask if I don't want to (and I don't). And I get some priority over new hires in what maze I want work in. Maybe my husband will do it with me. Aside from people just being absolute assholes (especially one woman, more-or-less, who bitched me out to my supervisor and guest services because she couldn't handle my shtick) it's been interesting. The work is not strenuous, too stressful, and I get to watch people get scared over and over. |
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| Eddie Izzard's Star Wars |
| 10.31.09 (11:49 am) [edit] |
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I found this in the comments of a LiveJournal page. It made me laugh and if you have seen Eddie Izzard's hillarious Dressed to Kill it will make you laugh too. If you haven't seen it, do so. |
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| Tired of people |
| 10.29.09 (7:32 am) [edit] |
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I am beginning to think Emily Dickinson had the right idea by cutting herself off from society and just writing. People really really suck. All people. I go to regrettably work with my groups on projects. In one group everyone was fighting for so long about what the damn project should be. Then, people don't go to the meetings, and then they piss and moan because they don't feel like they are being heard or that they are being maliciously excluded. That squabbling is almost over. But as soon as that squabbling stops another begins Then in another group, we set out to determine, again, what the project should be. Everyone says, "I don't care." So we go with my idea, and work that out with the group members who decided to grace us with their presence (eventually). Then in class, one particular instigator (who for the record, said, "I don't care") is like, "I don't know if I am sold on this idea. Instead of a simple idea that could potentially effectively teach about money, lets add a 12 more characters, give each of them them 5 different ethnicities, 4 different social backgrounds and 3 different genders." So now instead of moving forward we are stuck because she suddenly has everyone all riled up, and for the record she, "Isn't sold on [my idea]." Now I have to decide whether I am going to stand up and fight for my idea or relax because I am tired of fighting and bullshit. And tonight, I get to stay after class for yet another meeting to work this bullshit out! I am sick of that too. And people that visit my Haunted thing at the amusement park, they suck. Most of them are dicks who can't just enjoy the show. They have to prove they're above it all and get the upper hand in the situation by being threatening, jerky, stupid, violent, and just assholes. |
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| I hate you people!!! |
| 10.19.09 (8:41 pm) [edit] |
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I am in a group project. The goal of the class is to make a music video. There are six people counting me in the group. The producer is in charge of the video. The producer, the editor and I fairly consistently show up the meetings to hash things out for the music video. The director, the director of photography, and the lighting director rarely come to meetings. When they do, they get pissy that their ideas never get heard. Meanwhile, the three people that go to these meetings are starting to get pissed with the other three. And they I guess are starting to think we are some sort of exclusionist club. Today, there was to be a(nother) short meeting. The producer scheduled it for 6, But then he called the other group members to see if they could meet at 5:30 instead. They said yes. At 6:00 they still hadn't shown up. At about 6:10 the three of us decided we were done. The producer called the people who said they could make it at 5:30 and they started whining about him changing the time (which they could have said they couldn't make it) and they were late to be there at 6 anyway. And someone mentioned that they were talking about just making their own music video and presenting that to the band (that the producer is connected with). They can't get together for a meeting and agree on an idea. They'll have fun with that. This part is almost over. |
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| Resume |
| 10.15.09 (11:21 pm) [edit] |
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It's finally happened. My relevant work experience has outgrown the one-page resume allotment. The only thing to do now is to make picking and choosing the most relevant experience even more challenging. |
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| Music Video Writing |
| 10.13.09 (10:13 pm) [edit] |
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We haven't even started our music video yet and I am already tired of it. I am supposed to be the writer and I feel like everyone has something to say about the story. Yet people for various reasons don't come to the production meetings and then get butthurt when their ideas aren't heard. It's starting to annoy me because I just want to write something and move on. I suspect this is not how it works in the professional business. In the real world, the writer writes something and either it gets made into a production or it doesn't. You don't have everyone in the production team come up with ideas, then the writer writes something, and then the writer has to listen to feedback from the lighting designer or try to work in the director of photography's idea from left field and then try to avoid that person who will no doubt be butthurt that you almost completely ignored him. Meanwhile, you don't feel like you can do your job because of everyone's Actually, the way it works in the real world is the writer writes something and the director, if they didn't write it, uses that as a framework for doing whatever they want anyway. That's why writers don't get invited on set very often. |
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| Getting sick |
| 10.12.09 (9:39 pm) [edit] |
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I'm starting to get sick. I can feel it. I suppose it was an inevitability given the work I've been doing lately. If I am going to be sick, I hope it happens soon so I can get it over with. I don't want to be sick this weekend just because I don't want to be doing my Great America job or doing my marathon Friday when I am sick. |
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| This is Halloween |
| 10.04.09 (4:06 pm) [edit] |
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It has been a hellacious week. I still have about 17 more papers to grade. I am hoping that at least one of them does not have any citations whatsoever so I don't have to grade it. I started a seasonal Halloween job at Great America, the Santa Clara Cedar Fair amusement park. I am the mother in a family of People I love to see get it 1. Children. The event is not for kids under 13, pregnant women, or wimps. And since I enjoy the sense of accomplishment that comes from picking on something weaker, smaller, and more naive than me, I go right after them. And they don't recommend kids under 13 come. I went after this one little girl last night and her grandfather was like, "OK, stop it, that's enough, she get's scared really easily." Screw both a ya'. Your in my jungle (cornfield) now! 2. Cocky teens Junior high schoolers think they have everything all figured out. As such, they assume everyone else around them is dumb. So they either criticize my costume, and my severed arm, tell me my invasive movement is rude, or they try to tell me I'm beautiful or shit like that. That's when I like to see them get it most; take 'em down a peg; they don't look so smart when they've jumped back and are cussing from fear. 3. People on cellphones. You've paid a lot of money for the privilege of being at my event. So of course, talk on the phone the whole time. Fuck you! I'm working! This is one of the few jobs I think I will ever have where I can get on people about this particular form of rudeness. Hang up and pay attention to me serving you! You don't respect me working, I will get in your face even harder, and disrespect you right back! There was this one girl last night who got on the phone right as she got into my maze, I started making noise, and she started commenting on my noise. So I got in her face and got louder. She whined to me, "Stop it! I'm on the phone with my mom!" She got triple got good. Your mom can wait five more minutes you little twit! |
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| Grading |
| 10.02.09 (12:22 am) [edit] |
| 79 papers down, 8 to send to the teacher, 31 to go! |
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| Holy Shite! |
| 09.28.09 (10:59 am) [edit] |
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There is a written 2-3 page assignment due in one of my GA classes today. Currently 98 people have posted and about 30 more have not. They have until 12:00. I know what I'm doing tonight... |
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| 09.27.09 (6:34 pm) [edit] |
| I hate this weather. I hate this apartment. I hate the fact that the nearest library is closed on Sunday. I hate that the coolest place in my apartment is the bathtub (except when my husband has turned it into a sauna, even in this weather. And I hate that the only places I can go to be cool and comfortable are essentially stores requiring me to buy something I don't want and are not that cool. |
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| TV Show Project |
| 09.26.09 (3:17 pm) [edit] |
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The next assignment in a class I teach is for the students to as closely as possible recreate 60 seconds from any scripted TV show with a three-camera set-up. With about 60 years of scripted TV to choose from from any country in the world that they can see and recreate, most of them want to do the American Office. I pointed out that several episodes of TV had been published in books. The British Office being one of them, but no. I had hoped someone would rise to the challenge of a climatic Twilight Zone, or the funny and cinematically very, very simple Monty Python but no. There are a lot of great TV Shows in published scripts. I flipped through the Monty Python one online and found the scene where the male interviewer keeps asking his male interviewee things like, "Can I call you Eddy babby?" "Can I call you honey?" Simple. Funny. Ignored. |
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| Halloween Stores |
| 09.25.09 (6:29 pm) [edit] |
| One nice thing about this recession that has closed so many businesses is that there is a plethora of empty buildings to put temporary Halloween stores in, of which I have not been to any yet! |
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| I want this toy: |
| 09.20.09 (2:16 pm) [edit] |
This one, here: 
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| Talk Like a Pirate Day |
| 09.19.09 (9:17 pm) [edit] |
| Yaaarrrr! I know the time be late but that's no matter. Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day t' ye! |
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| Cheating cat |
| 09.12.09 (8:28 pm) [edit] |
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Our neighbor's cat is cheating on them with us. Because I desperately want a cat I let it. But I don't feel entirely right about it. It's like driving a car someone borrowed you, you have to readjust everything and it still doesn't feel quite right because it's not your car. This is all my aunt-in-law's fault. She let it in the first time now it's starting to become a regular thing. It knows just how to get my attention because all the doors in the building are the same. Each time it comes it gets a little bolder in its exploration. But I don't think he liked that I dragged him out from under the couch; he wanted to leave right after that. I feel like I should say something... |
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| Disney buys Marvel |
| 09.01.09 (8:56 pm) [edit] |
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Wow. Just wow. $4 billion dollars. I have a lot of questions about this as I'm sure a lot of people do. As a Disney fan and stockholder (I love cashing those 52 cent checks!) I know this will be a great move for them. But unlike when Disney bought Pixar, in which movies were already under the Disney name Disney has inherited a whole new catalogue of interesting characters. How is all this going to play out in established Disney brands? |
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| Interview tomorrow. |
| 08.31.09 (11:58 pm) [edit] |
| Tomorrow morning is my last chance to get an internship for the Fall 2009 semester. I hope it goes well! |
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