cooking show set up
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ALmost finished editing the cooking show from the other night. 6 hours in the studio and it still isn't finished. Funny how time works. In the office this afternoon getting really worked up about finding a way to photocopy my cookbook for the show. I haven't been told the password for the copy machine, but I also don't want to go in there with a stack of papers for my cookbook and try to do it right after they give me the code. I have to print out some important documents and ask them to help me figure out how to colate them , then an hour later I can go in and use it again for my own good.

I just realized that the three people from the Movie who were going to come to my opening will not be there now that they are back in their respective homes. It would have been nice to catch up with my old boss Jim. He and I finally bonded those last few days in the office and he seemed really excited to come see my performance. Couldn't sleep last night because of nerves, so I stayed up trying to write out the lecture. Found out that I really just want to talk about Irish mobility through America and how it mixed cooking techniques of french, west african, and english. Looking up another few stews while I have some free time today, just to have a comparison to the other mulligan stew I know.

cooking show

cooking show
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Last night Pete came over to film my cooking show for about three hours. With all the stops we have two tapes of 45 minutes each. His super GL2 Camera and my little bitty Canon Optura will make an interesting mix for the show. I have to edit it all together tonight and get it ready for DVD for the Options 2005 Show up in DC next Thursday. I can't believe how fast this whole week has gone. My new job in Recruiting is actually interesting now that I understand the paperwork, and what I will be really doing. I just found out that I will be a rep at some Portfolio day near White Plains NY in November. The sad thing is that I have to get a Rental car and being only 24 that can be a problem. I hope I didn't mess anything up by being too young for this job. But don't they want youthful energy? Can't wait to edit the video tonight and see what turns out. I am trying to make it a 20 minute tv episode so let us pray that it actually works. The Mulligan Stew by the way was unbelievable. Pete had no idea what to expect. It saddened me at the end of the night not to have anyone to feed. I hate making lots of food and no one eating it. There wasn't room in the fridge for my "birthday soup" so I had to put that down the drain. It wasn't the best I had made but it still felt wierd to just throw that money away like that. But I guess in regular cooking shows people throw out food all the time. I am still trying to get at the heart of my Food Network Obsession and figure out how far our cooking demo love really goes as a people. I mean was this an ancient thing as well? Are their any records of cooking demonstrations at the Library of Alexandria or Rome?

fun factory
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SO I might be on the training track to become a recruiter for the school here. I haven't told anyone yet that I will be taking two weeks off soon, but at the same time I don't know when I really start working this job. The feeling of being old but remembering being younger is slowly going away and is replaced with the knowledge that I would be a great rep for the School of the Arts. I just realized I am 24 and already feel quite accomplished. I hope if they want me to stay at this job they give me some form of responsibility because just being a smiling face you normally can make more for that at the Boat Show.

Pro-Production

Fearfully I checked my email this morning and recieved word that most likely the people who want to hire me for the movie will be working on something else. SO it was the recomendation to "jump ship." I guess there is no holding out hope to be back in the movie. TOday at the office I looked again at every job listed in the Times Dispatch and the VA Employment Commission. Why am I here in Richmond? I don't like having to go to the university to check my email, see people I don't want to remember, or go around begging for work in an over saturated job market. The real killer is if I get a job here this week, how will I tell them I need two weeks off in october. Huh? I have never worked for the real world that much. Even the movie seemed so protected. Will I have to find my ties?

Joblessness

so HBO seems to be shut down now for a bit longer, maybe forever.
Went to school to look up jobs and the Deans office has hired me for a week to fill in and work the receptionist front desk.

We can see what happens with this little post.

This morning I was in tears without hope of a new job and now, at least I have something for a bit of a week, maybe more hopefully.

Back in Show bussiness

so the movie has hired me back for another possition in the production. Going to be working for the set dressing department as the Set Dressing Cordinator, or something like that. Basically now I do paper work and answer questions about things that they purchase for the film./ Exciting, no?

Just booked my flight out to LA to meet up with Marc Horowitz of the National Dinner Tour. he is one of the most trusting people I have ever become friends with and never met.

Glad to have the chance to hang out with him. He recomends we start our friendship with a 7 to 9 hour interview at a resturaunt until we get thrown out. I am all for it! Gonna get analized on the left coast wearing my $10 suit.

Options show is getting real close, time to start cooking and prepping myself for it.

Still on the hunt

Working in the computer lab today on my three Resumes I need to go out and find a job. I guess this happens to everyone starting out in the world. You have the crappy part time job resume which also has the good jobs you had and actually want to highlight. You need to Resume with all of the kitchen experience. The one with only important bussiness type experience, and then you need your art resume. Oh, and then there is the VITA which has awards, distinctions, professional experience, and a plethora of other things. I like my professional resume the best. It is only one page and full of good jobs. I like adding the HBO line at the top. That is a good eye catcher. I am waiting for the first call back for an interview.

"Yes I do quite well in a fast paced no-nonesense environment. I worked for HBO."

"Well my multitasking skills were really honed during my stint working on a Mini series for HBO. Tom Hanks doesn't let people slow down on the job!"

I guess I should shoot for the stars with the job hunt. Look for something that seems impossible. My graphic design skills aren't actually up to par enough to get a good graphics job. I don't have enough web design experience to get that either. I feel over qualified to just answer phones. I feel that I am in a middle ground between being a shue in for most jobs and totally ignored. And then there is the experience. Which I feel that I don't have enough of. But how do you get it? And how do you pretend you have it?

Options show coming up soon in DC and I have no clue what I am going to do for it. The opening is the 6th of october I think. I am actually not that worked up about it as I feel other people are. I should have picked up the paper yesterday to look for work. But aren't the good jobs not listed? I think it is time to send out an SOS to all my friends who have jobs and can put in the good word for me. As I said to Judith, "The Universe is a secret handshake."