Anyone who knows anyone who’s gone on stress leave or doctors who diagnose it, please send me an email. Thanks.
Anyone who knows anyone who’s gone on stress leave or doctors who diagnose it, please send me an email. Thanks.
Do people remember the grade 12 english Stupid Monkeys debacle? The title of my paper for the departmental exam showed I had a sense of humour, which they ruthlessly punished me for (before the appeal). It is being reprised here in my internship applications. The problem seems to come down to my resume, which includes skills that I’ve picked up over my lifetime. Skills like “keeping tiny groups of people alive and organized in far off lands.” I think that’s an important skill to show that I have. I refuse to use the cliched buzzword things we were told employers look for when we had a resume writing workshop a couple of months ago. I want my resume to be something interesting to read, not some turgid shit. Monday I’m having a meeting with the person at Western here who has the concerns and we’ll see if we can come up with a compromise. But really, if DNTO doesn’t get jokes (and not even jokey jokes, just “hey this person isn’t a souldead-sack-of-flesh” kinds of things), I’m fucked. And there’s another person who applied to intern on the show. Grr. I’m from Winnipeg and it’s the cool thing about going back to Winnipeg in January. I want this internship. I don’t want to have to do my second or third choices. Really. I want something fun that I can take seriously but still get jokes at.
I think people don’t realize how getting jokes doesn’t mean you can’t take things seriously. It’s not like I try to be a clown or anything. I get shit done better than loads of people, but things need to be funny. I don’t know if I’d be able to do a job where I would have to sublimate any reaction to funny shit that happens. Gahh. What the hell am I doing? I don’t want to fit myself all coglike into an organization. This isn’t for me at all!
And deep breath, and we’re okay now.
Radio has some fun bits to it now. I was controlling the boards yesterday for the 4pm and 5pm newscasts. Tomorrow I’ll be reading the 4pm (EDT) news. If you are bored and want to make fun of me go to the CHRW webpage and listen to it live using RealAudio (yay!) or MediaPlayer (boo!). That’s 3pm for you Central timezoners.
The problem with the newswires became apparent today. We were putting together a mock newscast and I wanted something about the WTO protests in Montreal. There was nothing at all. Not even a thing saying “Nothing’s happening!” which would have been a story. Bah! We did get tape from the SARS concert though. One of the people in our class ditched school for the concert and phoned in a report. It worked out pretty well.
We started playing with the newswires today. I have a wealth of cricket information at my fingertips that I will force on the unsuspecting London listening audience. Moo ha ha!
I went to Niagara Falls yesterday. It was kind of funny how after a short spurt of barrel related conversation, things went back to standard tropes. I mean, how much can you talk about a couple of big waterfalls? Not very much it turned out.
In other news I’m hoping that radio will get to be much more fun this week. Last week was all lectures that were sort of weak. And when I say sort of, I mean immensely. Supposedly the lectures were much more interesting if you smoked up before class.
