Time to Find a Friggin' Happy Place
I have had yet another run-in with the local "we take ourselves way too seriously" almost-not-a-community-college. I got to stand in line for over an hour today, to register for a class that will be taken online. They had to have my high school transcript (because I took dual enrollment there in 2005), so of course that had already necessitated my going back to Ye Old Hell Hole to pick one up. Random aside, though: I showed up at Memorial during one of the lunch periods, and noticed that girls don't seem to be dressing up as much as they did when I was there. They're mostly in jeans and shirts, not the insane and/or skanky and/or tiny ensembles that used to be so prevalent.
Anywho, once I finally got done registering, I came home and logged onto all the online components that I'll be needing for the class, just to make sure there weren't any disasters occurring yet.
I don't think their online course program (it's a version of Blackboard, apparently, which is what TLU uses for classes) is compatible with Mac. Which is totally and completely frustrating. I really don't want to have to do all this work on my mom's crappy computer when I have a perfectly good iMac that runs video way better and in general is just faster. I've submitted a ticket for help, which is a monumental annoyance in itself, because the process is--again--way overcomplicated, and hard to understand exactly who you're submitting all this to. Hopefully they'll get back to me soon, because the class starts June 2nd, and since I'm not sure how much reading and work it's going to be, I don't want to start off behind on work already.
In short, STC is lame.
Spent yesterday evening working on my resumes. That's right, I have two separate ones. The first is my acting resume--it lists all my stats, the shows I've been in, etc. The second is my "regular job" resume, and I'm really worried about that one. I have two jobs that I could actually put down, and both were summer jobs. And the older one was from high school, so I'm pretty certain it shouldn't even count. At this point I'm in a better position to get an acting job simply because my "regular" resume is absolute crap.
I've also realized that I really should take advantage of a couple of the "Mock Interviews" that TLU has every semester. I'm just worried that they'll steer me wrong, because an interview for a acting role is generally different than an interview for a job at the average company. But I guess it can't hurt to go and glean what I can from it all.
I'm just really eager to be back in Seguin, getting my last semester as packed full of opportunities as I can make it, and then get out there and live my LIFE. I dislike being here, and I feel like I'm sitting in stagnant water, doing nothing but getting all pruny. There's only so much I can learn from reading books and having the same conversations over and over with my director. I want to get out there. -Ink
Anywho, once I finally got done registering, I came home and logged onto all the online components that I'll be needing for the class, just to make sure there weren't any disasters occurring yet.
I don't think their online course program (it's a version of Blackboard, apparently, which is what TLU uses for classes) is compatible with Mac. Which is totally and completely frustrating. I really don't want to have to do all this work on my mom's crappy computer when I have a perfectly good iMac that runs video way better and in general is just faster. I've submitted a ticket for help, which is a monumental annoyance in itself, because the process is--again--way overcomplicated, and hard to understand exactly who you're submitting all this to. Hopefully they'll get back to me soon, because the class starts June 2nd, and since I'm not sure how much reading and work it's going to be, I don't want to start off behind on work already.
In short, STC is lame.
Spent yesterday evening working on my resumes. That's right, I have two separate ones. The first is my acting resume--it lists all my stats, the shows I've been in, etc. The second is my "regular job" resume, and I'm really worried about that one. I have two jobs that I could actually put down, and both were summer jobs. And the older one was from high school, so I'm pretty certain it shouldn't even count. At this point I'm in a better position to get an acting job simply because my "regular" resume is absolute crap.
I've also realized that I really should take advantage of a couple of the "Mock Interviews" that TLU has every semester. I'm just worried that they'll steer me wrong, because an interview for a acting role is generally different than an interview for a job at the average company. But I guess it can't hurt to go and glean what I can from it all.
I'm just really eager to be back in Seguin, getting my last semester as packed full of opportunities as I can make it, and then get out there and live my LIFE. I dislike being here, and I feel like I'm sitting in stagnant water, doing nothing but getting all pruny. There's only so much I can learn from reading books and having the same conversations over and over with my director. I want to get out there. -Ink