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| Finally, some things go right. |
| 09.17.04 (11:22 am) [edit] |
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Well, let's see. At PBS, camera 1 has got to be the most job at the station. There are 4 cameras. Camera 4 gets to shoot one of 2 auctioneers at a table (one of whom once was the head of the hospitality mgmt dept that gave me 3 units for working my ass off in Disney World). Cameras 2 and 3 show things that people can bid on on tables (if they are physical items vs. services; they had some big-ass wine bottles last night about 3' tall!) and shots of the people answering phones and taking bids. (Actually, there weren't too many people there last night and even though 100% of them didn't seem busy most of the time, they still want people there so that the lucky cameras 2 &3 don't keep looking at the same people. So anyone who wants to be on TV, and watch the Raiderettes and the 49'er Gold Rush Girls go on down to KTEH on the other side of 101). And camera 1, I get the least to do. I focus on the guy or chick who is talking about what the current bids are, and talking about the station, and how the winning bidder has to pick up, or arrange for the item to be shipped within 24. The same damn medium shot of either one of 2 damn people. The director felt sorry for me and she let me do slow zooms in the guy just to make it interesting. In fact, there is so little to do in my position that there wasn't someone signed up for camera 1 second shift last night that I was told to just leave the camera right where it was and leave. The most exciting thing that happened was this cheif guy came in to do a cooking demonstration with fish (it smelled really good) and I got to do some filming on him. I think I really like being on the floor though (that is, not in the place with all the buttons and consoles and screens, the place that has the cameras and the people yakking). That way, on the headphones, you can hear the jokes and comments that people are saying in the control room, without having to do anything too stressful. What else? Oh, I think I hit a squirrel on the way to PBS! I saw a very panicked (living) squirrel in the middle of the road in my lane. And I kinda sorta tried to go around it. I felt the front of my car hit something rather hard, but not too hard... I didn't return to the scene of the (possible) crime. That squirrel had it coming; he had a death wish. I might have felt worse about it if he was wearing a turquoise aviator helmet though...  (I hate the computers in the library! You can't right click on anything, you have to use Internet Explorer, complete with pop-ups, you can only use them for a period of time that I don't understand. The computer says it's available until 5:55, yet you get about an hour and 45 minutes on them).:? One of these days, I have to send the principal of Parkview the flier for the art class. It's been challenging not having a computer and everything, you know. But I do have good news on my computer (good in the long run, not good now). My dad convinced a guy at the IBM help desk to fix the computer for free, since when the CD Rom broke the second time it was still under warranty and there are still some little quirky things about it like the battery only lasts 5 minutes, the hinges are loose. So it's going to be sent in tomorrow in a box and get all those things taken care of and sent back to be as good as new (it practically will be new, since none of my documents and software is on it). So that is something that has gone right. :) I got Jeremy's anniversary present yesterday. (And my TV Production textbook, yay). It was so sweet. A bunch of silk roses in a glass. So that is what was in the 2 packages I received.  I have figured out that not living with Jeremy in 2005 might not be so bad. It could be just like living in Vista Way, and I could still be milking my So that's something that, if everything stays on track, will go alright.8) My mom pretty much told me to go ahead and start booking tickets and stuff to go to Kentucky over Thanksgiving. (My dad will have to deal with it). So I've got to get on that, I suppose. I found out that the apartments across from campus could be within my price range. If I could live there, that would be great. I would live closer to my RTVF classes (but further from my art ones). So, I finally figured out when one of those pesky animation advisors is actually in their office hours, and got enough cajones to talk to one of them. We talked to them about next semester. I found out the portfolio review (for me) actually will happen in Fall 2005, not spring (my point of confusion, means nothing about the length of time in which I will graduate). However, she did have something very interesting to say. "Nearly everyone passes the portfolio review.":shock: Are you fucking kidding me?! The head of the art dept is saying only 25 people per semester get accepted (which I believe) and driving me nuts, and forcing me to completely reevaluate everything, go back to counseling to figure things out, making me (more) moody, frustrated and depressed for nothing. I feel like saying to him, "Why do you insist on making things seem so difficult and bleak?" I hate it when people upset me for nothing.:roll: At the same time I feel more pleasant than I would have not knowing this.:) This is just the perfect example of the kind of neurotical moron I can be. (It's getting hungry in here). Now, I just have to figure out this damn career thing. Which is another challenge that I can deal with a little better now. One thing I will do, when I go home next week, I'm going to Sac State to see if it's not too late for summer school, and try and take care of some stuff there. Like maybe some less-interactive, but necessary classes, like art history, or one of those annoying upper division writing things (in my case, I think I have to take 2 if I am going to double major, one to learn about writing theater stuff and one to learn about writing art stuff). But, that means now I have to make an appt with one of those advisors at student services. I  student services. No really, I do.Crap. I need to eat something and go to the gym. I think I am going to start to do some muscle training. One of these days I need to run some errands. I haven't been to Target in a whole week and a half! Maybe tomorrow night I'll do that since I will only be at PBS until 5. Current Mood:   Hungry and more relaxed
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posted by: Bun-Bun (reply)
post date: 09.21.04 (6:15 am)
That sounds great...taking some of the classes that you can over summer. Nice way to get ahead. I hope it works out.
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