I did not break. The union showed up Sunday. Negotiations were quick. The Camera union is telling everyone that they got the best deal they've ever accomplished. I know that my deal is spectacular. - As of yesterday, my union hours "bank" is officially full. As in, no matter how much more I work, those hours are over the limit as to what I can save for later. Effectively, I ensured healthcare for my family through 2018, assuming my other show keeps going (and it's on Season 19). - Every week I survive on this show pays for my family for a month, except the first "week" which pays for four. Although we have a phat loan to cover us through the lean times while my wife's business gets up and running, by the time I'm out of here I will have filled the bank enough to cover me through next September... which works out rather nicely as starting next June I'll be making enough every month to bank three additional months. - My time on the mountain up here adds enough hours that effectively, it's an additional $30 a month on my pension. - I now have enough cold-weather raingear that I'm actually comfortable standing in the dark in the rain for ten hours. - Everyone who PAs this show is from Seattle. It is, essentially, the Seattle film community. A couple of them have recognized me from BEFORE I moved to Los Angeles. And as I'm far and away the highest-paid, most-qualified local on set (because nobody else knows I'm local) I'm going to walk out of this on top of that community. - My supervisor quit, or was fired, or other muddy circumstances that my union's lawyers are investigating. He's a nice guy and I like him a lot but he's not the best supervisor I've worked for. The new guy is kind of a giant of the field. I walked around with him for two hours yesterday as he shook his head and talked about changes. He's worked with our director for 15 years and is only here because he was begged (he initially said 'no fucking way' to the job, which is why we got in). He's likely going to have the leeway to say "all that money you refused to spend to do this right? You need to spend it." We'll see what happens. Considering Network has been up here for two solid weeks, they seem to care about this show. And, as the new supervisor is smart, realistic and easy to relate to, I think that'll work out. - The other A2, the one who was rushing around all the time, sprained his kneecap falling off the truck one too many times. He's out of here on crutches. Disability for him, and an excuse for me to (a) never rush anywhere (b) take extra time where it's icy and slick. Production has backed off heavily on that sort of talk post-union. Supposedly they're building me my stairs so I don't plummet ass-over-teakettle every time I have to freshen up someone's mic. And since my supervisor left, I no longer work in "the butt farm" I work in "the blind." Which means I can no longer title the wrap-up post "six weeks in the butt farm" but it's a small price to pay. - Since we're Union now, they can't make me stop-then-start in less than ten hours (we were doing 4-hour turnarounds before). This has effectively locked me into the evening shift, which means I don't have to set anything up. Also, since the other evening guys are at a hotel an hour away and I'm at a hotel ten minutes away, it makes my day substantially less than twelve hours. - As of two days ago, I'm more than halfway through my deployment. In other words, I'm over the hump. - And I get to go home tonight and hang out with my family eating a turkey raised by friends of friends, as opposed to showing up to the community center and eating something catered with all these people who I really could use some time away from. - I've been assured I'll be paid ANY MINUTE NOW... ;-) Everyone else has, so we know they have the money. ________________________________________________ THE MORAL OF THE STORY IS Toughen the fuck up. If you think you can make it, you can make it. If it's worth fighting for, fight for it. ...unless you're that contestant of ours who had to run an obstacle course, then jump in a vat of ice water, then do ten burpees, then jump in a vat of ice water, then do ten burpees, then repeat until one of the three of you gives up. She didn't give up, she straight-up passed out and started twitching and still had slurred speech 45 minutes later in the back of an ambulance. Kinda lame; that chick didn't give up but we said she lost anyway. We hope she's okay but we doubt it. So the other moral of the story is never give a reality television producer agency over your health and well-being.
You mean like applying to compete in American Ninja Warrior? Hahaha..... shit.So the other moral of the story is never give a reality television producer agency over your health and well-being.
lil has a super busy day and asked me to post an update from her: That makes me a little nervous. Does anyone have a 2PRZCK confirmation code to help a gal out?I just ordered my return flight for March 1, 2016. The airline code confirmation # on my ticket is ANZXTY
hi everybody. I'm new but I'm an alter so I'm not. I accomplished a lifelong dream last night and established my own graffiti wall. pretty excited to practice an entirely new art form. lessons learned from day 1: wear a mask. I blew my nose and was not happy with the result this morning. graffiti has a lot more to do with layering and re-doing at this point. I have to do the bottom layer first and build on top of it to get the final clean result that I'm looking for. cheap spray cans are cheap. I've watched a lot of graffiti videos on youtube where guys are using ironlak and molotow and they get this beautiful vibrant coverage full of excellence and then I rock some cheap-o krylon and results are shit. so i will have to move up after i power through these shit cans.
Yes I'm really lucky, surrounded by parks! I'm not sure exactly what made the fifth mile faster, but a couple of thoughts - 1) The last .45 of that run (I run along that track a lot) is all downhill; 2) I knew it was my last mile and I was really happy about it; 3) "I Like Tuh" (by Carnage) and "Hotline Bling" (Drake) came on my shuffle back-to-back, and I love both those songs right now. I also took 1 or 2 short walking breaks (<.1 mi) in the earlier miles which I didn't take in the last one.
I have been through five interviews, I spent an entire day in an operating room viewing surgery and yesterday I had to give a presentation on pancreatic cancer. All of this to get a job with a company that by all accounts, except for one from kleinbl00 is fantastic to work for. Yesterday I reached out to a former vice president of mine and a former director and had them write personal letters of recommendation to the hiring manager at this company. I've literally pulled out all the stops. I'm not sure what else I could do. The hiring recruiter reached out to him and let him know that in her 15 years of recruiting I'm the best candidate she's ever put forth. I know it's down to me at two other people. One of them is an internal candidate and the other is a friend of the top rep in the country. The fact that I'm still in the hunt is amazing. He wants to think about it over the weekend. I wish he'd let me know today. Meanwhile, I have a new job I'm in and I'm trying to make sure that my first month of quota, December, had me looking like a rockstar. It's very difficult to do this while knowing that my heart desires a very different role. I don't often let myself get this excited about a "job" but the truth is I am.
Yesterday, Jeffry, my ganglion cyst, went to cyst hell. After 18 months, I'm excited to finally not have to deal with the, "jleopold, what's that bump on your wrist?" questions, and the ache. Plus, my self-enforced week of complete sobriety (no caffeine or anything) is now over. Of course, instead, I have to go two weeks without lifting or riding, which sucks. Come Saturday, I'll be looking for any excuse to get outside and do something. Probably gonna put in a couple dozen miles on the trainer, get ready for keeping fit over the winter season. Also passing the time by taking my current rigid bike down as close to a trials bike as I can. It's already like a 15" frame, so that shouldn't be too hard. Take off all the extra weight, cut down the seat, maybe replace tires and wheels, and it should work okay for a beginners trails. I'm hoping to pick up a frame for my winter build this week. Since full-suspension frames are pretty rare used, and more expensive, it looks like I may go with a hardtail 29er (or 26 if that's truly all I can find). That way, I can use the saved money to put towards disc brakes instead. If I find a soft-tail frame though, that could change. Coming from a rigid, I'm sure any suspension will feel great, and boost my confidence on jumps and technical stuff. Over Thanksgiving break though, I need to just blast through as much school work as I can. Planning to finish up college application essays, finish up my term paper book, and start in on more research for that and another paper. Plus, personal writing projects. At least I should have time for all that, since I won't be doing much physical activity.
Ive been home since… Sunday. And I leave tomorrow morning. FUCK. That was absolutely not enough time. Sunday: I didn't get in until… 3pm? It was supposed to be 1am Saturday but then the airline fucked up and I was stuck in goddamn Syracuse overnight. Bright side, roomed with a pretty lady. Not as bright, nothing happened. Anyway, Sunday was mostly just tired from flying. Monday: I slept until 11pm and then went and had lunch at ye olde high school. It was cool seeing everyone, but most of my really good friends left, and I think the school will be gone in the next 5 years (or less). Teachers quitting, students leaving… yeesh. Rest of the day was getting back together with my drums. And watching movies with my parents. Tuesday: slept more. Got a haircut. Mostly chilled at home. Wednesday: "You're back!" party with friends, incl. my fellow graduate (who was also back!). Twister. Movies. Cuddling with ex??? I am still so not over her, fuck damn. Thursday (today): Thanksgiving with parents, fellow graduate and his family. About as fun as I could imagine Thanksgiving, I guess. Now tired. Tomorrow I fucking fly back already. FACDJDOWHEK JAJAUSO GAH I love college. Don't get me wrong. But two things: 1. I CAN'T STAND FLYING (which is a ridiculous sentence). I just get so tired, and there's so much socialing with airline people and TSA and all the strangers. Ugh. 2. God I'm gonna miss everyone. The best friend, the ex, the parents, my goddamn barber. Leaving again is going to be so painful I don't know what to do, guys. Maybe I'll get back and it'll just be ok. Although I also have a 10 page paper due Monday that I haven't started-- too busy loving being home. I kinda wanna cry. . . (jleopold maturity my ass [weak smile])
I get you man. I remember that when I was left at university for the first night I cried and texted my mum saying I wanted to come home. It took me a considerable amount of time to get settled in. It's the obvious advice, but just surround yourself with new friends, activities, and the things you love to do and it'll get easier. Take the emotional strain you're feeling as a sign of growth and not weakness. Just like getting better at a musical instrument inevitably involves times of frustration, anger, or desperation as you stretch your limits, so too does growing as a human.
Recently I went through my journals from my freshman year of college and the voice I wrote them in sounds very similar to you here. I felt divided between college and home. Old friends and new ones. Old girls and new girls. Comfort and newness. Responsibility and the lack thereof. That said, I loved flying and traveling. Much of my journal entries are from airport lounges or train cars. Good luck during the transition period. When you're living life, it's just life. Later, with perspective you recognize the gravity of certain moments and eras. For me, the age you are at was a big one. I was as insecure and confused as I hope I will ever be. Safe travels!
:( I feel for you. I'd talk about all the reasons that things'll work out fine, but I'm pretty sure you already know. Your Hubski friends will be here for you if you need them.
After looking for a long time, on and off since mid September, I found an apartment that my girlfriend and I are very, very happy with, that is reasonable affordable, and is in an awesome neighborhood! Washington Park, for those who know Denver geography. My mother, the gracious and awesome soul, is co-signing our rental application, acting as a guarantor. Basically, the market is so crazy in the favor of those renting out houses and apartments, that we needed to be employed with decent incomes with Denver employers before even being approved. Which is a problem because neither my girlfriend nor I live in Denver or have jobs there. It's a catch-22, though I understand it from an economic standpoint: there's no reason for property managers to take any risks because there are a thousand people moving to Colorado a week, last I heard. So it's their market, not ours. The application I drop off this afternoon, and then, as my very religious boss says, "it's in God's hands now." I hope they approve! If they do, we move in early January. PS - Man do I hate those applications, where you state past and previous salaries, and previous rental rates and landlords, etc. It's like if you aren't living an up-and-coming Yuppie lifestyle, for example volunteering for a year or are doing an interesting work exchange on an alpaca ranch, you have no business here. PPS - I love my mommy. What a gal. Wouldn't have a snowball's chance if she hadn't decided to help.
I have braces. I don't think the subject ever came up. Two days ago when I went back to the orthodontist for a checkup, they did two things: A: They used a little sandpaper-flosser to sand down the inside edges of my front teeth, which is extra disturbing because you can feel your teeth grit falling off of it, but more importantly B: They gave me these little rubber band things to tie my jaw in a certain position. The upshot of all this is that I can't sleep because my jaw hurts too much. I'll be on IRC for a bit if anybody has the time.
can someone just like... give me a job? i don't even care what it is at this point. Jobsearches make me hate myself and destroy what little sense of self worth I have. On the plus side, i DO have a paying orchestra gig this weekend, so that's good. and I'm getting my first lady haircut.
First Lady haircut makes me think you're going to look like Michelle Obama or Laura Bush ;) Good luck with the job hunt!!
Shoutout to wasoxygen for meeting me in DC for lunch on Friday. Many things were learned. My trip went really well. I met a friend for dinner that night, and we went to a concert of one of my favorite bands afterward. It wasn't deliberate when I set up the trip, but we ended up hanging out all day Saturday, too. I met her for a morning jog in Rock Creek Park, which was beautiful. Then we had a late brunch (does it count as brunch if it's at 1 PM?), went to the Smithsonian Air and Space museum (X-15 yay) and wrapped up the night with improv comedy at the DC Arts Center. A nice trip all around. I got home to snow, but it's all going to go away today when some rain rolls through. It'll be back.
Lunch was great! Thanks for meeting with me. I am sure I did most of the learning, and my speculation on the cause of the Skin effect was not even wrong. I hope you'll have a chance sometime to look at that book about energy and let us know what you think. It happens that I was at Air & Space on Saturday too! I took the kid to see "Journey to Space" in the IMAX theater. The arresting imagery was thrilling and made it a little harder to maintain my skepticism regarding NASA, but I still took another jab at am_Unition.
I'm glad you tagged me, I didn't get an alert. Now I've got something to think about on the long drive tomorrow. Also, it warms my little heart to hear that you guys tagged up and found yourselves discussing concepts like "skin depth" :).
I certainly had a lot to think about! After we talked I looked up Oprah's marathon time. I'd toyed with the idea of running a marathon but had thought I needed to get below 4:00. Turns out the average time is more like 4:20-4:40. That seems much more achievable for me, and I may give a half marathon a try in the spring with the goal of doing a full marathon later next year or early in 2017.
Got a job offer today, which is great after being out of work for a couple of months. Its a senior product role within a software company. They seemed really keen which is reassuring and I will have moved into my preferred sector without taking a pay cut. The only downside is the commute (only 12 miles but can easily take over an hour).
Lameass Personal Achievement of the Week: Unlocked the Chrystal Cruiser in FTL on my first run after installing it on my Linux Box. Professional Personal Achievement of the Week: I learned how to write a cover letter. Go me! Hopeful Prospect of the Week: I'm talking to a guy who has over a dozen cars in various states of disrepair in his backyard who might be willing to let me wrench around on them with him a bit in the spring for shits and giggles. Maybe something will come of it, maybe not. I don't care.
Yeah, my neurosurgeon likes to show me my MRIs and pointing out blobs of stuff saying "you can clearly see this is a blood vessel and that is some tissue". I just nod in approval but really, I'm amazed he can make sense out of anything on these screens. You doctors are the shit.
I was witnessing a surgery the other day. They were doing a biopsy in a pancreas. It all looked the same to me. But they were like, now we're in the small intestine, now the colon, now the duodenum...etc. In my head I was like, now we're in the pink area...again. It literally looked like they were going through the same area over and over and over. It was like an endoscope being driven by Clark Griswold:
In an hour I'll be checking out a community ran radio station in Olympia (which rules, by the way) that I plan on being involved with as a DJ and such. They recently lost their Development Director and that was my position at my last station so I'm hoping to be joining at the right time. Also thinking about getting started with a DIY space in Seattle that hosts some great concerts and artists. Back to music. Feels good. Ultimately I want to be the kleinbl00 of running a community music/art space.
Talk about breaking points...I'm taking 5 courses of which 2 are doable, 2 are bitchin' and 1 is hopelessly difficult. I'm working on project management for the hydrogen racecar team and also doing graphic design. Then there's some smaller projects that I have to work on. This week I've been doing multiple 12 hour days of working on my to-do's and I realized that I will be bitchin' busy at least until the summer. BUT - I have become more and more confident that I can actually do this. I'm doing better than some of my peers and I have awesome courses and projects to look forward to (stay tuned). All I gotta do now is to continually give it my best shot. Someone play me the Rocky theme!
Oh snap. I'm supposed to bring a dish to a potluck thanksgiving. I have to make something!
After a lot of thought, I decided to wait another year before applying to grad school. I compared admission dates and statistics between a few Masters of Public Health and similar degrees at a few universities. While I'm a pretty fair candidate as is, another year of clinical research and a few more professional contacts will make me an exceptional one. Next decision; In-country job, or abroad?
The end of last month I was pretty stressed about moving and an apartment inspection. I'm not supposed to have a cat. The inspection went fine and the apartment lady somehow missed the six foot cat tower. So now I have to move. I was going to move back to my college town since rent is lower but a guy at work is like two blocks away from my job and in need of a roommate. He was going to charge $75 a week but my boss is going to help him pay rent so he lowered that to $40. Awesome news even though he's a convicted child molester. I'm not a child so I guess I'll be fine.
I'm participating in a student's challenge called "The Big Consulting Challenge in Management" focusing on the digital transformation. You can eitheir take the place of an entrepreneur or of a CEO trying to tackle the current challenges and you have to develop the context, your recommandation and the impact of your idea. We chose to focus on digital inheritance (the idea is to create a cross-devices app that follows your account, where for each account you can designate an heir) and we were selected two days ago to go to the second step of the challenge (197 teams initially, 30 now, 5 at the final step). Feels good!