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Things continue to plod along and I'm beginning to feel the time crunch. I think I've tentatively worked out topics for my essays (something regarding HK cinema's influence on western cinema or something. Maybe focusing on Tarantino. And some sort of essay on Fires on the Plain by Ichikawa Kon. I dunno.), but I'm still not really feeling them. My HK teacher is kind of irritating, too. Wants five non-internet, non-film sources for whatever we pick, with a 10 page paper. This wouldn't be so bad for most stuff, but there is not exactly all that much credible critical writing on Hong Kong martial arts films. Most of them are not quite that deep. Bleargh.
Job search is akin to wandering through a foggy swamp at midnight under a new moon. I've gotten more leads than ever before, but no indication that any are going to lead anywhere. I'm throwing my resume to like three internet postings on Mandy's a day, Elena from work handed me a bunch more sites to check, and I gave out 14 copies of my resume at the career fair last Tuesday. Career fair wasn't all that much help aside from that, though. Not really any solid leads, not really much of anyone cool represented. Biggest names were A&E and their affiliates (History channel, etc.) and Nickolodeon, who weren't hiring and were looking for writers, respectively.
Still, can't say it was totally worthless. One company that I had completely written off (I walked up, they asked if I knew Aftereffects and Flash, I said no, they took a resume and I went away) called me up offering a post transcribing 140 hours of stuff for some new age psychotherapy medicine thing. The sort of stuff that would make Tom Cruise hop up and down with anger. They'd seen I'd done some for optomen before. I gave it some thought and decided to turn them down, though. It was a temporary freelance post doing work that I've found I really don't enjoy very much and am not particularly good at, and I can't really imagine it paying well enough. I figure if I took it I'd be unhappy with the work and the pay, and they'd be unhappy that I can't type 120 words per minute and transcribe flawlessly in real time.
Dad passed on a tip that Steve Darsey (his friend and choir director) went to high school with a guy who's retired, but has part ownership in a couple of Post production businesses here in NY and got in touch with him for me. I got in touch with him, and he got in touch with the person in the know and one of those places, who got in touch with me and informed me that they don't have any apprentice editor openings, thank you. Alas. Still, I'm meeting with her tomorrow, since she offered to give me some advice, at least. Who knows, maybe it'll turn up something.
Apartment search is kind of starting to get underway too, hesitantly. Through consulting with parents and inspecting classifieds, I've sorta got my price range down, and some ideas about neighborhoods (I've heard good things about Astoria, and Staten Island seems kind of promising if I can get within walking distance of the ferry. Hoboken's a possibility, too, though I actually haven't seen much available in Jersey that's not a million miles away.)
Today, after sending off some resumes and stuff, got really into looking at apartments on Craigslist, even asked for an appointment to check a couple out at Staten and Brooklyn. I was planning on going to the library to rewatch Fires on the Plain, since I was half dead in class at the time, but right as I was about to go Mom came online, we got to talking about apartmenty stuff, and before I knew it it was too late, I couldn't make it up there and have enough time to watch it before the library closed. Urgh. I was, all in all, fairly useful this weekend, but still not enough. Didn't get up to the library, didn't go for a walk in any of the neighborhoods I'm looking at, to scope them out, and those are the things I need a free weekend to do. My internship is seriously starting to get in the way. I've put in my notice for leaving at the end of the month, and I've asked if I can reduce my hours Monday or cut it altogether, but I still haven't heard back from Robyn regarding it. I hope it'll fly.
New York Comic Con next weekend. Suddenly started panicking today, I think I remember being mailed a badge, but damned if I remember where I put it. Have sent an email to their customer service. Hopefully I'll find it or it'll work out. Wish it were scheduled some other weekend. I could use that time for stuff, but I really really wanna go to it.
What else? On a lighter note, Code Geass R2 has started airing. Looking pretty good. After months of neglect, I suddenly went on a Bioshock binge, beating it, then replaying and beating it again for the good ending, as well as to have subtitles on so I knew what was happening. Probably wasted too much time on it, but oh well. I tried to confine it to times when more useful activities were blocked to me. Those two playthroughs have mostly satisfied the urge, though when I get through this and get a chance, I might do a wrench/telekinesis playthrough, or beat it on hard. Assuming I don't get distracted by GTAIV when it hits. And assuming I have my essays done and an apartment waiting for me. Also saw Be Kind Rewind. Excellent movie, really. An ode for super low budget amateur filmmakers.
Yesterday I finally decided to fix my SALR firefox pluggin, which had been fucking up something fierce for some reason. Took a few hours, finally found that the only way to fix it was to completely reinstall Firefox and all my preferences. On the bright side, everything seems to be running much faster now.
Overall, my mood has been kind of bipolar lately, in a way. I find that I swing on an almost hourly basis between feeling like finals, apartment, and job are all going great and taken care of, and feeling like this is going to be a disaster in the best case scenario, that I'll never make it, that I won't get a job for months, and that when I do get a job I'll hate it, that I won't be able to take the 9 to 5 life. I dunno. Feel kind of exhausted overall.
Job search is akin to wandering through a foggy swamp at midnight under a new moon. I've gotten more leads than ever before, but no indication that any are going to lead anywhere. I'm throwing my resume to like three internet postings on Mandy's a day, Elena from work handed me a bunch more sites to check, and I gave out 14 copies of my resume at the career fair last Tuesday. Career fair wasn't all that much help aside from that, though. Not really any solid leads, not really much of anyone cool represented. Biggest names were A&E and their affiliates (History channel, etc.) and Nickolodeon, who weren't hiring and were looking for writers, respectively.
Still, can't say it was totally worthless. One company that I had completely written off (I walked up, they asked if I knew Aftereffects and Flash, I said no, they took a resume and I went away) called me up offering a post transcribing 140 hours of stuff for some new age psychotherapy medicine thing. The sort of stuff that would make Tom Cruise hop up and down with anger. They'd seen I'd done some for optomen before. I gave it some thought and decided to turn them down, though. It was a temporary freelance post doing work that I've found I really don't enjoy very much and am not particularly good at, and I can't really imagine it paying well enough. I figure if I took it I'd be unhappy with the work and the pay, and they'd be unhappy that I can't type 120 words per minute and transcribe flawlessly in real time.
Dad passed on a tip that Steve Darsey (his friend and choir director) went to high school with a guy who's retired, but has part ownership in a couple of Post production businesses here in NY and got in touch with him for me. I got in touch with him, and he got in touch with the person in the know and one of those places, who got in touch with me and informed me that they don't have any apprentice editor openings, thank you. Alas. Still, I'm meeting with her tomorrow, since she offered to give me some advice, at least. Who knows, maybe it'll turn up something.
Apartment search is kind of starting to get underway too, hesitantly. Through consulting with parents and inspecting classifieds, I've sorta got my price range down, and some ideas about neighborhoods (I've heard good things about Astoria, and Staten Island seems kind of promising if I can get within walking distance of the ferry. Hoboken's a possibility, too, though I actually haven't seen much available in Jersey that's not a million miles away.)
Today, after sending off some resumes and stuff, got really into looking at apartments on Craigslist, even asked for an appointment to check a couple out at Staten and Brooklyn. I was planning on going to the library to rewatch Fires on the Plain, since I was half dead in class at the time, but right as I was about to go Mom came online, we got to talking about apartmenty stuff, and before I knew it it was too late, I couldn't make it up there and have enough time to watch it before the library closed. Urgh. I was, all in all, fairly useful this weekend, but still not enough. Didn't get up to the library, didn't go for a walk in any of the neighborhoods I'm looking at, to scope them out, and those are the things I need a free weekend to do. My internship is seriously starting to get in the way. I've put in my notice for leaving at the end of the month, and I've asked if I can reduce my hours Monday or cut it altogether, but I still haven't heard back from Robyn regarding it. I hope it'll fly.
New York Comic Con next weekend. Suddenly started panicking today, I think I remember being mailed a badge, but damned if I remember where I put it. Have sent an email to their customer service. Hopefully I'll find it or it'll work out. Wish it were scheduled some other weekend. I could use that time for stuff, but I really really wanna go to it.
What else? On a lighter note, Code Geass R2 has started airing. Looking pretty good. After months of neglect, I suddenly went on a Bioshock binge, beating it, then replaying and beating it again for the good ending, as well as to have subtitles on so I knew what was happening. Probably wasted too much time on it, but oh well. I tried to confine it to times when more useful activities were blocked to me. Those two playthroughs have mostly satisfied the urge, though when I get through this and get a chance, I might do a wrench/telekinesis playthrough, or beat it on hard. Assuming I don't get distracted by GTAIV when it hits. And assuming I have my essays done and an apartment waiting for me. Also saw Be Kind Rewind. Excellent movie, really. An ode for super low budget amateur filmmakers.
Yesterday I finally decided to fix my SALR firefox pluggin, which had been fucking up something fierce for some reason. Took a few hours, finally found that the only way to fix it was to completely reinstall Firefox and all my preferences. On the bright side, everything seems to be running much faster now.
Overall, my mood has been kind of bipolar lately, in a way. I find that I swing on an almost hourly basis between feeling like finals, apartment, and job are all going great and taken care of, and feeling like this is going to be a disaster in the best case scenario, that I'll never make it, that I won't get a job for months, and that when I do get a job I'll hate it, that I won't be able to take the 9 to 5 life. I dunno. Feel kind of exhausted overall.