Status report
Sep. 20th, 2007 10:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
charloweenI have so much to read this weekend I think my eyeballs are going to fall out. I'm going to start with Joyce Nelson's book on television (The Perfect Machine) and then go from there. MacKenzie, that joker, assigned me to read the biggest and heaviest book on new media/new cinema forms that exists in all of creation. When we meet next week I'm going to raise my eyebrow at him. Oh how the eyebrow will be raised.
My current iTunes playlist has Australian indie pop (The Basics, teenagersintokyo, Operator Please... expect a music post, oh, eventually), some Erik Satie piano stuff (11 different works), that concert where the BBC Wales orchestra played music from Doctor Who and David Tennant was the world's perkiest emcee, the version of "Summertime" by Measha Brueggergosman and the Jive Kings, and the perkiest damn version of "Title and Registration" you ever heard. It's a good mix to put on random. Epic sf soundtrack, delicate piano concertos, contemporary fun stuff (songs about robots!!).... and every now and then, there's this Scottish guy, describing plots of episodes. :D
Work has been good: they need me for as many hours as I can give them in anticipation of next weekend's Ontario Universities Fair. I've made a few signs that have been accepted without changes, I've been tweaking the raw design stuff the agency used to put our handbooks together (the design wasn't done in-house) so they can be put in the main presentation and used as gigantic print pieces/billboard-type-deals, and I've pretty much been doing all the little graphic designy things that need doing. For the OUF and the other tasks, too. (Like stupid residence handbooks....grr.) The job I was hired for (researcher/writer) is not the job I've been doing for the past buncha months (what's essentially a graphic design internship).
All the extra hours (in the office plus working the fair itself) means I'll be able to have enough extra socked by to feel okay about buying one of the shiny new iPod Classic gizmo-things. This is even better news, considering that SonicStage (grrr... Sony wins at everything but the software) has decided to stop recognizing my player. I feel like a heel for falling under Apple's spell but... 80GB... can be used as mass storage... and they're so SHINY. I think I'll get a silver one and giggle at how it's all space-agey. I'm going to try to snag one from a US site, considering the strength of our dollar... *schemes*
My current iTunes playlist has Australian indie pop (The Basics, teenagersintokyo, Operator Please... expect a music post, oh, eventually), some Erik Satie piano stuff (11 different works), that concert where the BBC Wales orchestra played music from Doctor Who and David Tennant was the world's perkiest emcee, the version of "Summertime" by Measha Brueggergosman and the Jive Kings, and the perkiest damn version of "Title and Registration" you ever heard. It's a good mix to put on random. Epic sf soundtrack, delicate piano concertos, contemporary fun stuff (songs about robots!!).... and every now and then, there's this Scottish guy, describing plots of episodes. :D
Work has been good: they need me for as many hours as I can give them in anticipation of next weekend's Ontario Universities Fair. I've made a few signs that have been accepted without changes, I've been tweaking the raw design stuff the agency used to put our handbooks together (the design wasn't done in-house) so they can be put in the main presentation and used as gigantic print pieces/billboard-type-deals, and I've pretty much been doing all the little graphic designy things that need doing. For the OUF and the other tasks, too. (Like stupid residence handbooks....grr.) The job I was hired for (researcher/writer) is not the job I've been doing for the past buncha months (what's essentially a graphic design internship).
All the extra hours (in the office plus working the fair itself) means I'll be able to have enough extra socked by to feel okay about buying one of the shiny new iPod Classic gizmo-things. This is even better news, considering that SonicStage (grrr... Sony wins at everything but the software) has decided to stop recognizing my player. I feel like a heel for falling under Apple's spell but... 80GB... can be used as mass storage... and they're so SHINY. I think I'll get a silver one and giggle at how it's all space-agey. I'm going to try to snag one from a US site, considering the strength of our dollar... *schemes*
