Skip to main content

Ready for my close up

This morning I did a promotional video for my graduate program. Why they chose me for it, the world may never know. Certainly not for my articulate way with words.

It included:
1. Sweating through my button up before I even got there. I told the guys shootings that I'd do anything except raise my arms. Seriously. The pink linen shirt in July was a gem of an idea - I left my brain in Boston.


2. Sitting oh-so-casually outside on a wooden chair facing the sun. Au naturale! Doesn't every school have wooden chairs casually spread out on campus?
"Look natural."

3. A bee swarm. They sat me next to a bed of flowers...I was lookin' quite sketchy as I eyeballed the little buggers. Nobody likes shifty eyes, and mine were the shiftiest.

4. Several "do overs" - I swear I speak English, yet somehow I final myself talking like Yoda..."Come to Utah, I did."
Or Chewbacca.

5. Biting my tongue so I didn't answer the questions sarcastically, "Why did you choose to come to Utah State and do the LSL emphasis?" "Cause I'm gettin' it FO FREE. The incredible opportunities the school provides, the amazing professors, the beautiful town of Logan, the inspirational families I get to work with...." Okay, okay. To be honest I did it for those reasons too. But my first-instinct answer is funnier.

But in the end I got it done - and apparently I had semi-decent things to! I even made the interviewers laugh a couple times (more re-dos). Maybe I missed my calling as a reporter...except I'd only be able to wear black and work in the winter. And I'd definitely never be able to do anything live.


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Stop Shoulding all over yourself

Yesterday I went on Cor Jesu's Vivare "young alumni" retreat. My friend from high school Katie posted it on my wall a few weeks ago and tagged a couple other CJ sisters to the post and it struck my interest. I haven't done a single thing with CJ since I graduated and somewhere between moving to Boston and joining the triathlon team my Catholic past was put on the backburner. I figured I had nothing to lose except a Saturday and at the very least I'd get to hang out with my friends so I signed up and sent in my $25 without much thought.  I've never been the most devout Catholic. Most times in church I'm scanning the crowd for familiar faces, zoning out, and making Target lists- and that's if I go at all. Sunday is usually run-day...or ski day. Or sleep in day. Or study day. Or vacuum day. Whatever day it is...it's rarely church day. Despite being raised by two Catholic parents, going to a Catholic grade school and a Catholic high school, going o...
1 comment
Read more

A Near Miss

I may have spoken too soon when I said that Kirkwood library was my spot. Here I am comfortably doing my speech-pathology work when out of nowhere: We took the square route of this and put it here and here and put it there and there.  My ears tuned in and I raised my head. I sniffed the air and suspiciously scanned the area. Yep. Math. Immediately I broke out in a sweat. Hands started shaking. Eyes twitched. Jaw clenched and neck twisted. Vomit literally came up my esophagus. Pavlov conditioning in it's purest form.  So this times this gives you this and this times this gives you that.  Focus, Katie. Hmm....a 2 year old with hearing loss who is struggling with some final consonant deletion, some stopping of fricatives, some devoicing? Now that, I am good at.... Now do you see inside your parenthesis that there is a difference of squares? No I don't see, lady. That past is long behind me and I'm never going back.  Right now I'm transcribing, identifying ...
1 comment
Read more

Nanc's First Air BnB Experience

I knew it was trouble when we walked in. Chris and I have stayed in Air BnBs all over the world - from the Arctic Circle in Finland to Ushuaia at the tip of Patagonia in Argentina. From the haunted house with Ouiji board that locked itself in the closet and the porcelain dolls that I swear followed me into the the bathroom, to the plush condo in Buenos Aires with the rooftop pool. The key to Air BnB is low expectations. If you have the expectation of "This is literally a place to put my bags and lay my head down", you'll never be disappointed! The one in Ushuaia, we literally shared a bathroom with 4 other people. The toilet and plumbing was so sketchy I refused to poop in the house...and we stayed there for THREE DAYS. We slept in two double beds in a small library off the kitchen...on my HONEYMOON. The one in the Arctic Circle had no shower and we had to heat our water with a sauna and shower by pouring a bucket over each others head. Don't even get me sta...
Post a Comment
Read more