I feel like I haven't written lately, but that I've thought about things that I could write about a lot lately.
Week four of class and work will commence tomorrow. I can't believe that we're halfway to midterms already. It feels better if I view it that way. One-fourth of the way done after this week. All things considered, though, I feel like things are going well. Work at ISU is fine; it's nice to know everything at this point and just be comfortable there. Work at Heartland is taking shape, which makes me feel 100% better. I still haven't actually advised much, but I'm getting to know everyone better, so that makes things feel less scary. Class is fine--lots of reading and lots of projects to be thinking about and working on in the midst of everything. On Wednesday I have a mock interview for Capstone, which is the thing I'm looking forward to least this semester. Just have to get it overwith.
I'm getting more nervous about the future, mostly because I hate not being able to fully plan things. Who knows where we will be in six month's time? There are so many possible outcomes and I don't like not knowing, but I need to just go with flow, plan and be as proactive as I can, hope for the best, and know that something has to work out. It has to.
I'm applying for two advising positions at UNLV. It'll be the first two jobs I've officially applied for and I'm nervous and basically putting it off because I want everything to be perfect on my resume/cover letters. I forgot how annoying job searching is... haha. I spent over an hour looking at the UNLV website and corresponding department website just to write a good cover letter for ONE of those positions. And then I probably have spent another hour actually writing the cover letter, which I'm not even done with yet. Oy.
I watched a documentary called Exit Through the Gift Shop on Friday night. (Along with two others called The Edge of Love and Funny Girl.)
It was different than I expected, but really good and entertaining. Basically it's about this guy who tells street artists that he's doing a documentary, but really he's just obsessed with filming every moment of his life and becomes interested in street art, so he films everything they do. Somehow this turns into him becoming a street artist himself. He essentially has no street cred, but opens his own gallery with thrown-together art and makes a killing off of the idiots in LA who think he's awesome just because he was very efficient at creating hype about his "art" and his exhibition. It was really clear that you can basically become very wealthy based on who you know and what sort of resources you have, while not having any sort of talent or integrity. Kind of disheartening, but telling of our society, especially around elitist things such as art.
I grew up watching Funny Girl and I've loved since an early age, but hadn't seen it in a looong time.
This is one of my favorite scenes. I think this movie made me love musicals. I also just think Barbra Streisand is hilarious in this film and that she has one of the most naturally beautiful singing voices. I enjoyed watching it again and understanding the dialogue that I didn't when I was younger. It was weird to think that she was my age in this movie. I always thought she was so much older--ha! I fear that I'll continue feeling that way for the rest of my life.
Yesterday I was at the Social Justice Institute at ISU. It was a good time--it was nice because I knew quite a few people there when I thought I'd know no one. I think there were eight of us total from the program, so that was good. I met a lot of new people, as well, and learned stuff about myself. It was interesting and I'll continue to think about what I learned for awhile.
Okay... on to tackle another week!
Week four of class and work will commence tomorrow. I can't believe that we're halfway to midterms already. It feels better if I view it that way. One-fourth of the way done after this week. All things considered, though, I feel like things are going well. Work at ISU is fine; it's nice to know everything at this point and just be comfortable there. Work at Heartland is taking shape, which makes me feel 100% better. I still haven't actually advised much, but I'm getting to know everyone better, so that makes things feel less scary. Class is fine--lots of reading and lots of projects to be thinking about and working on in the midst of everything. On Wednesday I have a mock interview for Capstone, which is the thing I'm looking forward to least this semester. Just have to get it overwith.
I'm getting more nervous about the future, mostly because I hate not being able to fully plan things. Who knows where we will be in six month's time? There are so many possible outcomes and I don't like not knowing, but I need to just go with flow, plan and be as proactive as I can, hope for the best, and know that something has to work out. It has to.
I'm applying for two advising positions at UNLV. It'll be the first two jobs I've officially applied for and I'm nervous and basically putting it off because I want everything to be perfect on my resume/cover letters. I forgot how annoying job searching is... haha. I spent over an hour looking at the UNLV website and corresponding department website just to write a good cover letter for ONE of those positions. And then I probably have spent another hour actually writing the cover letter, which I'm not even done with yet. Oy.
I watched a documentary called Exit Through the Gift Shop on Friday night. (Along with two others called The Edge of Love and Funny Girl.)
It was different than I expected, but really good and entertaining. Basically it's about this guy who tells street artists that he's doing a documentary, but really he's just obsessed with filming every moment of his life and becomes interested in street art, so he films everything they do. Somehow this turns into him becoming a street artist himself. He essentially has no street cred, but opens his own gallery with thrown-together art and makes a killing off of the idiots in LA who think he's awesome just because he was very efficient at creating hype about his "art" and his exhibition. It was really clear that you can basically become very wealthy based on who you know and what sort of resources you have, while not having any sort of talent or integrity. Kind of disheartening, but telling of our society, especially around elitist things such as art.
I grew up watching Funny Girl and I've loved since an early age, but hadn't seen it in a looong time.
This is one of my favorite scenes. I think this movie made me love musicals. I also just think Barbra Streisand is hilarious in this film and that she has one of the most naturally beautiful singing voices. I enjoyed watching it again and understanding the dialogue that I didn't when I was younger. It was weird to think that she was my age in this movie. I always thought she was so much older--ha! I fear that I'll continue feeling that way for the rest of my life.
Yesterday I was at the Social Justice Institute at ISU. It was a good time--it was nice because I knew quite a few people there when I thought I'd know no one. I think there were eight of us total from the program, so that was good. I met a lot of new people, as well, and learned stuff about myself. It was interesting and I'll continue to think about what I learned for awhile.
Okay... on to tackle another week!
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