The question of the day is wondering how much rejection I can take before it actually starts to knock down my self-esteem. And let me tell you, I have a high sense of self-esteem and I rarely if ever get truly bummed by anything, rather choosing to go with the flow.
I've been rejected from a few other places I've applied to though I'm still waiting to hear from some others. I'm continuously looking for and applying to different places (internships and entry level jobs) so that way I have a choice when (notice I said when, not if) I get the opportunity to work for one of them. Here's the bright side--and if you know me, you'd know that I spout out a lot of positivity stuff and I'm a firm believer in it--it's giving me the opportunity to figure out what it is I ultimately want as a career and what I want to focus it on. Recently I've been looking at PR, being a magazine editor/writer--because I want to travel--, a paid blogger--traveling would work for that too--, or a social media professional--let's face it, I'm always on twitter anyway--as well as my dream job for being an actress. (Of course that's all above my dream of being on the NY Times Best Seller List. *fingers crossed*). It gives me time to place precedence on the hobbies that I'd love to have time to continue if not work on more (running and playing the guitar), as well as helps me think of different ways each of those could potentially fall in with each other. So, yes, I still get disappointed when I see that a company/place I applied to has chosen to skip on giving me an interview. Yes, it makes me discouraged at time if not worried. But I know it's all happening for a reason and that I'm going to get my start soon. Now, if you know anyone that needs a writer/guitarist/skater/extreme sports enthusiast, let me know 'cause I'll be perfect for the job.
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So it's Spring Break, finally. Don't get me started on how much we wanted it. Almost everyone I talked to said they wanted this break so badly. Though more often than not they just want the year to be over. And you know it's coming considering how many FB statuses there are about people getting into grad school.
Am I going to grad school? Maybe. There's an completely online MLIS program (Master's of Library Sciences) that I'm thinking of applying to at San Jose State university. I'm already taking a class online and it's actually really easy to keep up with. I just don't want to have to sit in a classroom and be lectured every day which is why having the program online is better for me. Especially beacuse I can work it around my schedule. I just need to have someone get back to me on whether or not it's a legit thing before I do apply so I don't get scammed out of it. And that way I can still have/get a job, which is also what I'm really pushing with during this Spring Break. I've found a few internships, still haven't applied yet, but I've applied to a few work places. Other than that I've been working on a couple of books, two that would be a series with Mere, one that's another series the four of us would work on together, and one that I'm doing myself. The one I'm doing myself I had started in last year's Advanced Creative Writing Class and while I'm currently putting it on hold I'm excited to see how it'll end up. We have the whole week to figure things out with our books as well as with jobs and with what we plan to do after graduation, so hopefully there's an update with that soon. *Quote is credited to Steph So here's a recap of my week
Monday was good. Tuesday was good. Wednesday was OK. Thursday sucked. And today (Friday) is great. I also have high hopes for the weekend considering it's going to...GET UP TO 70 DEGREES THROUGH THE NEXT FOUR DAYS!!!! Whoooo! It's almost spring, daylight's savings is Sunday and I have a good outlook for the rest of my semester. Anyway, Monday was good because it's a Monday. For the first time in the four years I've been to this school, Monday is a good day of the week for me. I only have one class, I only work for three hours, and then I have the rest of the day to relax and get some homework done. Tuesday is essentially the same, only that my class is a hour and a half and I don't particularly enjoy it at all. Wednesday was when things started to go downhill. My glasses broke (in all actuality, the lens popped out because the screw popped out) and that left me blind for most of the day because I couldn't get back to the apartment to get my contacts. And Thursday SUCKED all because of my glasses, the class I hate, the homework and presentation for the class I hate, the people in my group not helping me out, and it was a dreary day all together so I was unhappy about that. (Plus I'm stuck on what I want to do for my next turn-in for my creative writing class but whatever). But today was great because I fixed my glasses, I have some inspiration for my turn-in (though I still can't decide between the three I want to do as they all have intense scenes), I got the books that I ordered, and I realized that 9 out of 10 e-mails I'm getting from school now don't apply to me because I'm graduating this may. Our next book title is revealed tomorrow and it's about two weeks until Spring Break. It's the little things that matter. My four day weekend is over...I didn't do much. That's what you're supposed to do on a four day weekend, absolutely nothing. I didn't have to shovel (I bet Mom wasn't too pleased with that, if we were home we would have helped) I didn't have a lot of homework to do, and now because of that I don't have any homework to do this weekend, and I got a lot of writing done. That's the fun part, getting a lot of writing done.
Unfortunately, when I got a lot of writing done, it came at the expense that I 'messed up' a lot and had to re-do stuff over and over and over again. That's the only thing that bugs me about writing in pen sometimes. And it shows that the hardest part of being a writer is accurately getting your thoughts to the page the way you see them in your head. I can almost guarantee no one is excited to go back to classes tomorrow but look on the bright side, I only have one class tomorrow and it's only one month left until Spring Break. Man, these 100 days are flying by. Obligatory comment about the snow: Where I am we're expected to get about sixteen inches of snow...I'll be a bit upset if none of my classes are cancelled or if the school doesn't close down. I'm thinking about the commuters, here. Really. I am.
Today was a great day, actually. I only had one class I got to sleep in. Hallelujah!! My class for today was Literature of the Renaissance and we were going over the topic of the Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Iron Ages and how they differed from each other as well as what those different time periods meant for life for those that lived during those time periods. What really interested me was when we got onto the topic about Gods and Goddesses. I love mythology, Roman or Greek, and always find it so interesting how their stories differed from each other as well as the Roman or Greek influences changed things about them. I usually can't remember who is who or what specifically each God's or Goddess's back story was, but I always like to learn about it. If our class could consist of only that, I'd be a happy camper. It was my only class for today so I went to work afterwards which was good as well. Then at the dining hall tonight we had a dinner with Cuban and Jamaican influences with jerk chicken and some specialties. My personal favorite from tonight was the Cuban Beef Steak with Black Bean Salsa. It's probably my favorite thing in moody (apart from some of my usual favorites) and I wish we weren't just having it this month. And, I just finished my turn-in for my advanced creative writing class. My idea for the class this time is to do a series of short stories. That way I can work on getting things done in a quicker time frame/page limit and focus on how to tell the story in that frame. This time the main character is a twenty-six year old male. I want to try and write a guy because I'm not used to doing it, and I'm doing an older character because I want to try someone that would be at the age where he can be mature and immature at the same time so it'll give me a lot of leeway for specific things I want to happen. I finished the first one and I'm really excited to see what I come up with for my other turn-ins based around that character. I have a lot of inspiration for it so I hope it doesn't let me down. Haha. I hope everyone had a great day. Is it sad that spring semester classes start tomorrow and I still don't know my schedule? Haha. Anyway, not much went on today. We just drove back to school and once again I could tell how far away we were from our final destination from how I started to lose my voice. Somewhere around the two hour mark of straight singing my voice cracks terribly and that's usually where I start to lose it.
Thankfully, it makes the trip that much shorter. Bright side, I'm getting practice done on my singing. I'm not saying that I'm good, but I'm not saying I'm terrible either. Also, I learned that it's really hard to sing lower notes. Yes, my voice is kind of deep, not like super deep, but slight deeper than a girl's voice is normally registered (up until I get worked up or start going on a rant, then my voice gets high and squeaky. I actually learned something about deeper voices on females in corolation with guys from the book The Male Brain. It's a good read and very informative. I enjoyed it, anyway. But, yeah, I was singing to the song Hanging By A Moment by Lifehouse and I prefer the deeper parts of the song (best thing about being four of us is that we can harmonize/sing different parts of the song that are our favorites and it still sounds good. I think so anyway) and it was actually pretty difficult to do. Anyway, here's the big news. There's only (about) 3 months left of the school year. February, March, April, and part of May (before exams). And those 3 months are going to fly by. I never knew that time moved so quickly, it seems just like yesterday that I was in second grade with my friends, looking at the chart that listed all of the years that students graduated in and thinking 2010 would never get there. Then freshman year I thought 2014 would never get here. Jokes' on me. So what do I have planned? Well, I'm blogging more, hope to get some more things self-published, and I'm hopefully working with an online magazine called Twin Life so that way I'll have a lot of different things to use as a writing sample if I ever need to when it comes to applying for jobs. Plus, all the extra writing will help me improve, there's always room for improvement. Forgot to mention this before, but I got a month down in my resolution of trying to blog for a year. So far, so good, though now I think I'll have more to talk about once the spring semester starts, rather than trying to find something interesting to say. You'd think that being a quadruplet there's always something going on, but we can to turn our entertainment off at some point, people. Haha.
So, yeah, Spring Semester starts Wednesday and I'm excited for it, but at the same time dreading it because there's one class that I'm not too particularly fond of taking, but have to because I put it off since freshman year so that's my own fault. And, you can't enjoy every one of your classes but I digress. I have a big grab bag for the different kinds of classes that I'm taking so it should keep me interested in some way. Plus, with the different kinds of classes, you all shot be entertained with how I'm able to keep up with my blogging, what goes on as a senior is about to graduate, and everything in between. On a side note, don't you hate it when you're writing something and it never comes out the way you want it to? That just happened with a chapter of a story I wrote and when I'm done with it, I might just delete the chapter entirely. But such is life, everything can't be perfect. So for my J-Term class, as I've said in numerous blogs before, our final project was to write an episode of a currently running TV sitcom. And the one I chose is 2 Broke Girls. So my blog for today is the link to read the episode I wrote. Keep in mind this is the first time I've ever written a TV sitcom. I hope you all enjoy it.
2 Broke Girls - "And The Bad Day" I never realized how hard it is to be funny up until I was taking this screenwriting class. I'm a naturally funny person (I don't think so, I've just been told this) and having to come up with one joke on every page of a 50 page script for a sitcom is the hardest thing ever. There are some jokes that I do on purpose that are funny, others that I throw in because I can't think of anything else that seem to be funny, and others that I throw in when I can't think of anything else and they're duds.
Having read a bunch of scripts throughout this class and now understand how many times you have to revise something or change jokes until it's guaranteed a laugh is difficult. We even had to take a couple scenes from 30 Rock today and use those to write in our own jokes and it's a lot harder than you would think it is. How would you change 'sports are stupid, being an athlete is easy' into a joke every few lines until the scene ends? Though our teacher did say the jokes we came up with, she thinks, are better than the ones that are actually in the episode. Ego boosting sure, but I'm not sure if that's exactly true. I'm panning on sharing my script to an episode of 2 Broke Girls when I'm done with it (about sometime tomorrow night) and I'm actually really excited for it. It was fun to do and I absolutely love the show now. Though I don't think that it's all funny. But having the first experience of writing for a sitcom has really helped me and expand my ways of writing different genres. Plus, I could use it as a writing sample if I ever need to. ;) I never realized how much work actually went into screenwriting until it came to this class. And yes, screenwriting for film is different than screenwriting for TV. What I've done for a movie is a lot easier as you don't have to worry about differencing from different scenes as often (at least I haven't had to when I was in a film class). In this class it's somewhat annoying because I can't do different cuts of mention where cameras are looking.
It took me a bit to get used to the fact that I didn't have to do that as well as it took me a bit to figure out how to get the script formatted. That's the only thing that's been giving me some sort of trouble, it was the most irritating thing making sure that everything is centered right. And because I did this in a word document as opposed to a certain file to use, it makes it that much more difficult, especially considering some of my pages have blank spaces that I can't fix. Oh and because I have to keep printing more than one copy of my script, by the end of this J-Term, I'm only going to have about 300 prints left and I have the rest of the school year to use up those prints and most of my classes are English. This especially stinks because I don't have the CD to install my printer onto my computer and can't find a driver online. On the bright side, I'm really enjoying what I'm writing with for my script so at least that keeps me preoccupied. |
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Loves anything red. Rock music, playing the guitar, drawing, writing, tattoos, and sports are some of my interests and hobbies. I like to laugh, I like to think I'm funny. I talk a lot...just a warning. Archives
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