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I LOVE the one of the hat guy w/ the had on! I wish he had it on in that picture where he's totally freaking out. That would have been perfect.

And I suppose none of the pictures with me are too terrible. There are definitely people in there that got snapped at more inopportune moments than moi. Though, I would freak out if they did release a video of it. Especially Mysterious Ways! I'd hate to think how ridiculous I looked for that bit where Bono was standing right there and I was going in for the kill to get brought up. It wouldn't be pretty, I'm quite sure of that.

Sorry Mesopotamiax4 wasn't so hot today. I suppose you had that coming after yesterday. I suppose that's still easier than having to try to actually teach a regular course for the day. While popping in a movie doesn't help you in the teaching dept, I know we never listened to subs, and I'm sure a 21 year old would just scream "I'm not doing a damn thing today!"

I had the Queer Eye interview today. It went fine. I guess they're going to have two different positions: production and casting. Both sound interesting, but they said they'd send you out on set about once a week if you were in the production internship. That'd be fun! We'll see what happens. The morning interviewee never showed up, so that's good for me!

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I'm in desperate need of the Fab Five to give me a little TLC and mini-makeover. Shopping w/ Carson=GOOD TIMES!

And congrats on your "call-back"!!! Fine, have it your way. It was indeed a mosterous train wreck, and those sadists just want to make you drag your ass into Victoria so they can see in person just who had no clue that whatever it was was a private issue...and all that business about your "favorite" legislative officials that you had ready, on tap! Might want to brush up a bit more this time, as you won't be allowed to have a crib sheet handy! Good luck though!!!

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Watch out, Tiff. They're going to greet you by snapping a Polaroid to post on their Wall o' Shame, where they all gather around when times are tough to point and laugh at the sad, wanna-be interns!

Sorry...that was mean. Don't freak yourself out. You'll never be able to pull this interview off if you psych yourself out before even getting there. Even if the phone interview was a mess, I highly doubt they'd both to waste your time (and theirs) by dragging you out there to have a 2nd interview in person. They must have liked something about you. Maybe they said "Hey, her resume looks great, maybe she was just nervous on the phone. Let's bring her in and see what she's like in person." No matter what you'd like to tell yourself, I'm sure they've got better things to do than call you in for an interview just to F*CK around with you.

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C'mon. You're setting yourself up for failure thinking/talking like that!

And no word from either yet, but both said they were interview at least through next week, so I shouldn't expect to hear anything before then. No panicking on my part just yet. And I've got an interview w/ MTV on Monday. It was MTV Networks, but they're sending me in for Development at MTV/MTV2. I'd rather have been sent in for VH1, but beggars can't be choosers. Doing research for Best Week Ever or something like that would be much more fun. Oh well.

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yay Tiff! I knew you couldn't have done that badly on your first interview! Don't worry too much. Good luck to both of you on your internship prospects. Listening to you guys makes me so nervous about getting one this summer. I'm completely awful at interviews, I have no previous experience...ugh. By the way, high schoolers are really not very pleasant people. My voice is hoarse from yelling at them to be quiet all day. Why do I want to be a teacher again?

Today I had high school sophomores and juniors; I had to switch between American Studies and Chemistry because they were short of subs. And they don't listen! It's so frustrating! I think (hope) that they don't treat their regular teacher so poorly.

This summer I'm planning on doing something kinda unrelated to teaching (there aren't many teaching-related jobs to do in the summer, and I wouldn't be able to get anything because I'm not certified as an actual teacher yet). I want to do something theater-related in the city. MTC has a cool internship program and one department is Education, which I really want to get.

4th page! eek!

Did anyone catch the video on TRL? I didn't get a chance to watch.

Crap, I missed the video too. (Dunno if MuchMusic was premiering it today - but they DID air Vertigo Chicago this afternoon!)

Nothing new here today - just hosted a pretty successful potluck and lamented my inability to lose weight before my trip. Also trying to put off reading the newspaper and, god forbid, learning about the provincial government in preparation for my interview.

Sample sale shopping and Canucks event tomorrow. Hope it's fun!


ETA: Are you (Claire) and Nic going to be directly competing against each other for internships in the summer??? MTC sounds like a great opportunity!

ETA2: I'm about to have a genuine anxiety attack over this Victoria thing. If I don't get the job, I'll feel like a total failure and wonder what the hell I'm going to do with my life. And if I DO get the job, I'm going to be terrified at the prospect of relocating by the beginning of the new year.

ETA3: Is it sad that part of my reluctance to work in Victoria next year is due to the slim-to-none chance that I could be Chris Columbus's (or Ben Stiller's) assistant in an upcoming movie shoot in Vancouver? I would KILL to be Chris Columbus's assistant. KILL.

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Updated On: 12/3/05 at 03:49 AM

The interview's on Thursday in Victoria (which I like and all, but it's a 4 hour shuttle/ferry commute EACH WAY and since I'm leaving for Miami the next day, I don't even get to spend the night there so that sucks).

When do you hear back from Plum? Does Plum or Queer Eye give a stipend or is it totally unpaid? Woman, you need to finance your Vancouver trip! Did they say they'll hire you at the end of next semester, or is that a best/worst case scenario? Is Plum the one that wanted people to start in December when you were already gone?

Ugh, but I feel like a failure if I don't get it just because - in light of my whole "karmic" enlightenment - it seems like some karmic god is all, "Okay, I've been bad enough to you already, don't screw up the second chance with this interview, or I'm gonna drop a tree on your house." I've got a week to prepare and I know what I did wrong last time. Basically, if I get a second chance post-interview-from-hell and I bomb it, what does it say about me?

Canadian government has actually been a fairly high priority, but not provincial government. I know my federal government stuff pretty well, but I find most provincial issues to be pretty dry (hence the reason I totally screwed up those current event questions). I think the worst part about this is that it's not an internship - at least, with an internship I could take it as a learning opportunity, and I won't beat myself up if I don't get it. Since the title is "Executive Legislative Assistant", it's actually a full-time, permanent career. On one hand, most law students would kill for this opportunity (and really, I just lucked out to get an interview since the politician I'm interning for is the one who passed on my resume) and if I got this, I could put off law school indefinitely since it wold be an unnecessary means to the already achieved ends, then. On the other hand, as you mentioned, government hasn't ever really been the highest priority (relative to film) so I feel like I'm closing myself off from something I really, really like (not to mention law/criminology) if I get the job - and I guess if I hate it, I could leave, but it's one of those opportunities you'd be really dumb to do it.

So are you saying I shouldn't walk in and when they ask me to tell them why I applied for the position, go, "Well, I kinda like politics, but really, I'm just biding my time until a better opportunity in Hollywood makes me a star!" ?

Okay, enough about me - you? How are ya? When do you go back home? I haven't mailed out your care pack yet, so it looks like it'll be more of a Christmas/New Year's deal that I'll have to send to your home instead.

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Have y'all seen/heard this? http://www.keepachildalive.org/index.html
It's Bono and Alicia Keys' duet. I like it!

Tiff, you can hear the song on that website if you watch the video.

Sorry, I kinda skimmed both of your novella-sized posts about jobs. Tiff, good luck on your interview; I'm sure everything will work out and you'll end up where you're supposed to be. Actually, that goes for both of you!

I finally saw Harry Potter! I was bummed that my two fave characters, Snape and Sirius, didn't have bigger roles. But overall I thought it was good, even though they cut out a lot. And, to weigh in on your poll, I prefer Cedric over Victor.

I Brandon Flowers. I just listened to him singing "In a Little While" with Bono and I'm dying here. That's one of my fave songs, and with two of my fave singers singing it...it just kills me. I wish I had been there!

I'm in the process of downloading videos from Interference that someone took at MSG on 11/21. This guy had an AMAZING view. Most of the files are huge, but it's definitely worth it.

Link me to the Brandon/Bono clip! I'm on the Audio/Video site right now and I'm trying to find anything of Arcade Fire opening in Montreal. Did they perform Wake Up to introduce the boys? (I would seriously die. DIE I TELL YOU.)

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