Missed Posting/Updates and the Super Bowl
More than seven days have past since I posted.
Actually more like eighteen days, but who's counting really.
I really did want to stick with trying to post every week but, alas, I fail again. The projects that I start and try to make a deadline for, I just don't follow through with. It is a problem that I have had for a while. Only when I have a teacher or professor breathing down my back with a date do I decide and step up and try to achieve that letter or number on a piece of paper. I need to get better at keeping my personal deadlines. I think it stems from being too easy going now and not as uptight as I was in school. It is a good thing and a bad thing.
But, besides that rambling I am already into my second month of being in New York City. Again, still don't have a real paying job and my feet are hurting me more and more but I am still trying to be positive.
I probably didn't talk about this before (if I did I'm sorry) but I got an interview with MLB.com. That's right Major League Baseball. It is for the Streaming Media Assistant position that they open up during the baseball season. If I was offered the job, I would be working basically every night helping monitor the fifteen games that they stream across the internet to different devices. It would be a part time job so I would still be able to hold my internship which would be perfect.
I also started reading on camera at the Comtex News Network which, again is just for my practice and will not be seen online, but is still pretty exciting. I hope to do some more in the coming months and maybe, just maybe, I will have a few stories online for people to see. (Again, sucks that I don't get paid but I am getting great experience).
The show that I'm freelancing for "Daniel Packard's Live Group Sex Therapy Show" just had two showing at the Museum of Sex this past weekend. Both performances went really well and the audiences were amazing. I also made some more advances with the technical side of the show. Who knew that Powerpoint could really do so much. I even started learning how to do animations. Word of advice for people who put on their resume that they know the Powerpoint program. It has changed a lot since I used it back when I was a kid. Yes, the basic functions are still the same but there is so much more you can do now. You can even edit action script (not that I know it) in the program itself as well as edit images on the fly. Pretty amazing.
Other than my various working engagements I went to a rehearsal of the Voices of Gotham just to check it out. They are a barbershop choir, part of the New York chapter of BHS. I got to sing real barbershop for the first time since high school and it was awesome. I would really like to join the choir but I believe they have dues to pay which I don't have the money for right now. But, if I end up finally getting a real job I would totally join. I need that kind of singing in my life.
The other thing I did tonight was watch the Super Bowl and Glee after it. The Super Bowl was okay. Didn't really care who won but I was rooting for the Packers because well, the Steelers don't need another Super Bowl. And Aaron Rodgers has been on fire the whole playoffs so they definitely deserved to win. As for the commercials during the Super Bowl, I thought it was a little heavy on the car commercials. Chevy almost had a commercial in every break and Ford played their same commercial three times. I mean, there was a lot more different ideas this year but mostly the same kind of products. I liked the little Darth Vader commercial as well as the Pepsi Max one when the lady on that bench got whacked with a can of soda. The halftime show was lackluster and Christina Aguilera messed up the words to the Star Spangled Banner. Don't worry Christina, they will talk about that more than your terrible singing.
I can't really complain much about the Glee episode. It was the typical fair I have been seeing lately. A little over the top but still entertaining. I could listen to the Warblers all night long, the all guys a capella group in Glee. I think Kurt joined the more talented group. If the glee club beats them at regionals, it will definitely be very unrealistic.
All right then. Well, I will continue to update every week. This time I'm stickin' to it. Gotta keep up my commitment.
Until the next time.
Actually more like eighteen days, but who's counting really.
I really did want to stick with trying to post every week but, alas, I fail again. The projects that I start and try to make a deadline for, I just don't follow through with. It is a problem that I have had for a while. Only when I have a teacher or professor breathing down my back with a date do I decide and step up and try to achieve that letter or number on a piece of paper. I need to get better at keeping my personal deadlines. I think it stems from being too easy going now and not as uptight as I was in school. It is a good thing and a bad thing.
But, besides that rambling I am already into my second month of being in New York City. Again, still don't have a real paying job and my feet are hurting me more and more but I am still trying to be positive.
I probably didn't talk about this before (if I did I'm sorry) but I got an interview with MLB.com. That's right Major League Baseball. It is for the Streaming Media Assistant position that they open up during the baseball season. If I was offered the job, I would be working basically every night helping monitor the fifteen games that they stream across the internet to different devices. It would be a part time job so I would still be able to hold my internship which would be perfect.
I also started reading on camera at the Comtex News Network which, again is just for my practice and will not be seen online, but is still pretty exciting. I hope to do some more in the coming months and maybe, just maybe, I will have a few stories online for people to see. (Again, sucks that I don't get paid but I am getting great experience).
The show that I'm freelancing for "Daniel Packard's Live Group Sex Therapy Show" just had two showing at the Museum of Sex this past weekend. Both performances went really well and the audiences were amazing. I also made some more advances with the technical side of the show. Who knew that Powerpoint could really do so much. I even started learning how to do animations. Word of advice for people who put on their resume that they know the Powerpoint program. It has changed a lot since I used it back when I was a kid. Yes, the basic functions are still the same but there is so much more you can do now. You can even edit action script (not that I know it) in the program itself as well as edit images on the fly. Pretty amazing.
Other than my various working engagements I went to a rehearsal of the Voices of Gotham just to check it out. They are a barbershop choir, part of the New York chapter of BHS. I got to sing real barbershop for the first time since high school and it was awesome. I would really like to join the choir but I believe they have dues to pay which I don't have the money for right now. But, if I end up finally getting a real job I would totally join. I need that kind of singing in my life.
The other thing I did tonight was watch the Super Bowl and Glee after it. The Super Bowl was okay. Didn't really care who won but I was rooting for the Packers because well, the Steelers don't need another Super Bowl. And Aaron Rodgers has been on fire the whole playoffs so they definitely deserved to win. As for the commercials during the Super Bowl, I thought it was a little heavy on the car commercials. Chevy almost had a commercial in every break and Ford played their same commercial three times. I mean, there was a lot more different ideas this year but mostly the same kind of products. I liked the little Darth Vader commercial as well as the Pepsi Max one when the lady on that bench got whacked with a can of soda. The halftime show was lackluster and Christina Aguilera messed up the words to the Star Spangled Banner. Don't worry Christina, they will talk about that more than your terrible singing.
I can't really complain much about the Glee episode. It was the typical fair I have been seeing lately. A little over the top but still entertaining. I could listen to the Warblers all night long, the all guys a capella group in Glee. I think Kurt joined the more talented group. If the glee club beats them at regionals, it will definitely be very unrealistic.
All right then. Well, I will continue to update every week. This time I'm stickin' to it. Gotta keep up my commitment.
Until the next time.