Well, I am working on a video now. I have actually already made this video once, but the copy I have of it is bad quality, and I cannot find all my OMFI files for it (avid files that is). So I am making it again. It is for Willow Creek (production stuff that I do). I hope it helps me get back into the swing of things.
Archive for the Motivation CategoryI am going to help another Whole Foods out again. It is a Chicago store this time. I forget the exact one at the moment. It will be the 26th of February through the 4th of March. I won’t be staying in a hotel this time, mainly because it is so close to my house, compared to Milwaukee. I am also not going to miss school either like I did last time. They are going to work around my schedule. I hope I have a lot more supervisor shifts or at least customer service shifts. It will be a good sneak peek at what a Chicago store is like as well. That will help me decide whether I really want to move to Chicago when I go to Columbia. If I don’t like the environment of the store, the Team Members, Leaders, etc, then maybe I won’t live in the city. Either way though, I am really looking forward to helping out again. Well, it was 6am when I finally got out of bed. I knew I had a lot of snow ahead of me to shovel, and before school. After I finished shoveling a good portion (plus going over it again and again from more snow and my OCD) I found out that school was going to be closed until 5pm. I went straight outside again to continue shoveling. Only my music and my shovel to keep me company. I should have had breakfast: it would have given me more energy. My left knee is also hurting from when I injured it a year ago. I am sweating. I’ll type later, going to shovel now. Well, I just did my first solo Directing for Willow Creek DuPage. It went quite well. At first I was confident. I though: “Hey, this is easy. You have done it before at TCD. How different could it be?” Then the time crunch started leaning on me. I really wish I would have brough my book that I write in to Germany. I had a bunch of things to write in there. I ended up writing some of them in a binder but it isn’t safe there. I think I need to spend some time and write in it again…very very very soon. Getting stuff out of my head would be good, even if no one listens. I did have a LOT of fun in Germany, especially towards the end of the week and at night. Having someone hang out with me ment a lot to me. :-) Well, until I get a picture/image gallery I really like, and a working one, I am using “posts” as my gallery. I posted all the pictures for one group as one post. Ex: My images from one of my Lincoln Marsh trips is in one post with the date of when they were taken/posted originally; pictues of when I had long hair, the day before cutting it is in a post; also pictures right after cutting it with short hair. Etc. They all have the timestamp of when they were taken/posted originally from my website. You can also view all the picture sets I have by choosing the category to the left. I will change the two new/recent picture sets over soon as well (along with adding the rest of pictures I have, ie: germany, fiji, prom from both my camera and Cindi’s, and finally….yes finally…..remodeling of my room). Yay, I directed a service! It wasn’t that hard at all. I have directed live video before for TCD which actually was way more complicated and in turn, harder. It has been two years since then though (or close to it). I was told I did a good job, even though I feel that it could have been better. I am going to be directing next weeks serivice as well, along with the service right after getting back from Germany. It is cool that Shelton trusts me enough, and believes that I am up to par for putting me in his shoes for two weeks. I think I am going to try and make it to TCD and talk to Jeff Heise this next week before Germany. I haven’t talked with him in quite some time now. I also need/want to have lunch with Bill Stoerp (old Director for Willow Creek Wheaton) to catch up on what is happening with him. Need to study for now though. Midterm tomorrow (scawwy face, big eyes) yeah yeah, I know. The picture page thing isn’t working properly. I need to either find a better gallery, or just not put them in there. I will do something after my midterm on Friday. Shit be going down for rocky horror, dunno what is going to happen yet though. Won’t know till after the Friday night show. Germany in a week and 3 days. I am not ready, stressed from work/school, and never get enough sleep anymore. I’m bitching, I’m bitching, I’m bitching….yes I know, fully aware (or maybe just complaining). Stuff always works out in the end doesn’t it…or at least it passes by. –> School I went to the MAM. I am so glad I did too. It was AWESOME! I took a lot of pictures that I will try and put up tonight or tomorrow or something. I was trying to study for Humanities, but I forgot my textbook at home, and some of my notes just don’t make sense. I will try again later *shrug*. My iPod doesn’t work well in my car, which sucks, not a complete loss though. The WFM in Milwaukee is very different (of course). The registers suck, the TMs don’t know the Whole Foods way and I have to explain it, but in a “not mean, order like” manner. It is okay though. I am making the best of it. I saw Bob from bakery, Nicholi from Seafood, and that girl he seems to always be with (who also works at WFM, seafood as well I think), and Bob O.!!!! good old Bob O. He is awesome. Anyway, till later…walking out around by myself because I don’t know how to make friends here. heh I am going to be kicking myself for staying up to watch that movie. I have always loved staying up late, watching the sun come up, shining in against my black curtain. But school is important, important enough to not miss. Mmmm, 1:44am……sooo lovely. Hehe Speaking of lateness/earliness. I am going to be setting up my webcam again. Be ready for it in the near future. Yay, watch me type….and watch me watch a movie. |
It was 6pm and we had not finished sound check. It was all the stupid small things that were holding us back, along with 3 people trying to figure audio problems out. It was really stressing out the audio guy. Anyway, once we started the service, it was all down hill from there. (and I mean that in a good way, the “Hey, I don’t have to peddle my bike anymore” way) Everything went quite smooth, so smooth that while looking in my backpack, I saw I had Biger with me, and started taking pictures of him “running the show.”