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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 11, 2007 21:34:26 GMT -5
Poor dumb major. You seem to always be getting frustrated with your place of employment... I suppose I'll learn to hate my job once in a while, but at least in the training stages, I get to work with the two coolest managers ever, I'm learning tons of things about health and people skills, and if anyone in the world ever wants to know what hoodia does, or why they should be on a multivitamin, I can TELL THEM!
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Post by Pheud on Aug 12, 2007 15:53:53 GMT -5
Speaking of employment issues--I just started at our local Polo Ralph Lauren store last week.I gave them my band and Cross Country schedules and told them I'd be very limited through the fall until November.(Mostly I'd be working on Sundays only)They said that'd be fine and they would work with me on that. So I go in to get my schedule for next week,and what do they do?They scheduled me over two required practices and a football game!I was able to switch 2 of the 3 days around,but I'm probably going to be 2 hours late to the football game,I'm gunna be totally missing a practice,which is going to piss everybody off,and I have to go in at 5Am two of the three days and I'll be there until 5PM.I love how they listened to me.If they keep doing that come last week in September/last of August,I'm totally not going to be working there anymore.
I'm only really doing it to get money for Teal Sound come November.Meh.
Oh yeah,colleges and senior stuff...I got my senior pictures done the other month,and they turned out quite bad.The angles they used made it look like I had a lazy eye and it was just bad.So now I have to get them re-made.Argh.I go visit Marshall University among others come first of November,so w00t.
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 12, 2007 21:49:48 GMT -5
Speaking of employment issues--I just started at our local Polo Ralph Lauren store last week.I gave them my band and Cross Country schedules and told them I'd be very limited through the fall until November.(Mostly I'd be working on Sundays only)They said that'd be fine and they would work with me on that. So I go in to get my schedule for next week,and what do they do?They scheduled me over two required practices and a football game!I was able to switch 2 of the 3 days around,but I'm probably going to be 2 hours late to the football game,I'm gunna be totally missing a practice,which is going to piss everybody off,and I have to go in at 5Am two of the three days and I'll be there until 5PM.I love how they listened to me.If they keep doing that come last week in September/last of August,I'm totally not going to be working there anymore. Awww. I did the same exact thing at my first interview! I gave my manager my entire band schedule. So far he hasn't had a problem with anything. Let's hope it stays that way - it feels really nice to be working, learning lots of things, and making money. And heck, if I could get a nice nest egg going for college and/or drum corps, that'd be even better.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 13, 2007 21:43:15 GMT -5
I 'discussed' with my head honcho lady my band schedules. I don't think I'll have any problems. I said, look, I can work mondays 6-10 and Sundays any time. You schedule me anyother time, and I won't show up.
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Post by Greenepony on Aug 15, 2007 18:25:40 GMT -5
I'm pleasently surprised, my normal MOD is no longer the head honcho for the departmental scheduling (for the first 10 months or so of my employment the head MOD for entertainemnthas no contact with us), so I had to talk to the head lady about coming in late one day so I could be in a aband performance. I explained that I didn't get my band schedule until last week and she's letting my come in 2 hours late! I don't know if it's because she's nice or because I'm the only teenage coordinator (boss type person) working through the fall... but I'm not complaining I also have till Nov 1 to get my interviw in at the school in Chicago!
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Post by stickshifty on Aug 15, 2007 21:16:30 GMT -5
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Post by Flutist Kes on Aug 18, 2007 10:57:29 GMT -5
Ooo, pretty!
I still need to get Senior pictures done.
This is especially sad because my dad is the photographer.
Ack, well.
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Post by Greenepony on Aug 18, 2007 17:13:52 GMT -5
Ugh senior pictures are friday on the day I need to campout at the school at 7 or earlier to get a parking permit.
Oi Vey, apparantly the guy tells girls "Where's that sparkle? Show that sprakle!"
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 18, 2007 21:14:43 GMT -5
ugg... I need to do senior pictures as well.
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Post by tubapride on Aug 18, 2007 21:43:20 GMT -5
You guys get senior shirts, also?
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 19, 2007 9:52:06 GMT -5
You guys get senior shirts, also? What do you mean? Like, special "OH MY GOD, I'M ACTUALLY GOING TO GRADUATE" shirts? I haven't gotten my senior pictures either. I think they're due for the yearbook by September 7th, but I can't do them any earlier than August 31st. That's when my braces are coming off.
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Post by NinjaBaker on Aug 19, 2007 9:55:13 GMT -5
Yeah, we get senior shirts.
Apparently they're going to say something like
"Class of 08, the Ocho."
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Post by javelin on Aug 19, 2007 12:18:58 GMT -5
It's starting to become close to crunch time. I told my friend that if I don't have a college picked out, I would attend his: Westminster College, PA. I would like to go there...but it's complicated. :-\ But so far, I'm also considering: Otterbein College Muskingum College Mount Union College And that list will actually be added to once I go through my basket of mail... I don't bother with e-mails now...for the most part anyway. Plus, people have been recommending schools to me, one in particular was Slippery Rock. And I'm visiting Muskingum, so we'll see if it stays on the list. I kind of am interested in physics...and being a physicist...or something similar, like chemistry. Kind of a big dream, I think. But I've been told I should go to a bigger school...like OSU...where they have amazing physics departments and I can study things like reactors. You can't find that at small schools. It makes sense, but that's not what I want. But I liked that advice where it's about your second degree, not your first. That makes sense as well. I want a growing first four years...where I can have fun, too. So, I'm not as worried. I've been eliminating schools and choosing schools based on whether or not they have marching bands. It makes things a little easier. I really want to do marching band. I'm actually worried about the first day of school, because my guidance counselor was told in a roundabout way by myself to change my schedule in a certain way that we had already discussed, and I don't know if she did it or not. I plan on not bothering her anymore and then hoping and crossing my fingers that she has changed it. The guidance counselors haven't been very reliable in the past so...it makes me worried. I just don't really want to come into homeroom get my schedule, have it be wrong, and then likely go through some drama where they won't let me change it this way and it NEEDS to be this way... They'll probably make me cry. -_-; I plan on taking the SAT and ACT again, for more money. Even a single point seems to make a difference between $6,000 or $10,000, and that's what scores are and have been all about. I could get in probably anywhere I wanted with the scores I have, now it's just a matter of money. So what's $70-ish for THOUSANDS more? And I'm really happy to see my GPA went up to 3.96. I only got 2 B's, and that was sophomore year... Yay new marching season! ;D Plus life has suddenly become better *secret*! ;D
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Post by javelin on Aug 19, 2007 12:21:14 GMT -5
And on the subject of senior pictures...
I just got my first "little black dress," and it's for pictures.
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Post by SaxGirl on Aug 19, 2007 21:10:51 GMT -5
I've been eliminating schools and choosing schools based on whether or not they have marching bands. It makes things a little easier. I really want to do marching band. Thank God. I'm not the only one. I feel sort of ashamed for taking schools out of my potential college list because they don't have a marching band, but if I want to have at least some fun and enjoyment in college, then why would I go to one without a marching band? It's a crappy dilemma, too. Xavier University sent me some wonderful mail the other day, and I had been fairly interested in that school since the Pittsburgh College Fair. But, they only have a Division 1 basketball team, and only have a pep band. Yes, they have an art program, but no marching band - sorry, XU. My parents keep suggesting schools without marching bands, and I won't even consider them. Heck, there were schools that I wanted to visit in 9th and 10th grade simply because I loved their marching bands (*cough Iowa State Universty cough Florida State University*). Heck, that's the main reason that I'm interested in the University of Illinois, though I hear their art program is actually quite good. Lucky me, when I visited Kent State University yesterday, my parents and I stopped at Taco Bell for lunch. As we drove past the Music and Speech Center along the main road, we saw the band. So we just pulled up, ate our tacos, and watched them practice.
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