*rounds of applause as i bow for the final time*
today's performance included potoshopping and a tour of mercy hospital.
we got a leg up on using our colons i guess is a way of putting it. so clean it's dirty, surrounded by death and disease from old and young alike. if it's not to much to ask, i'd like to not go back?
thank you
achemmm.
the past 2 weeks have been awesome. i've met some pretty cool cats who i'd love to stay in touch with.
Fe with her random outbursts, sam with her fwooshy hair and the bayyyybeeeee, stina my photoshop tutor or sorts and kimmy who is flippen sweet. i love you guys. after today i'll get moved to culinary to mess with food and cleanliness and i won't get to write for money anymore. well, at least until i possibly become a photojournalist maybe. *crosses finger* that'd be sweet. maybe. well i don't know exactly. anywho, i'm going to miss my new friends as we swtich occupations. some will come with me and some won't. see you on break, guys :].
now it's tome for a fun fact section
you all know me as AmandaKay, but do you know what that 'Kay' comes from or how it got there? Kay is short for my middle name Katherine. it's also like 'im amanda, okay?' gotta love double meanings. i got that the summer of my freshman year during WIA actualy. there were 4 amandas in the progeram year and to not confuse anybody, we decided to give me somethig else to call me. my boyfriend at the time 'there are 4 amandas. . whats your last name? ____? we have one of those. so whats your middle name? Katherine? we have one of those to. . lets combine it somehow. How about AmandaKay?' and i guess it stuck because im on people's phones as that, people call me that and it's just become part of my identity i guess. thats the stoy you see. i know it's not all that exciting or have a cool backround or anything but it suits me. Amanda dosen't fit my personality and if you add 'Kay', it just works. and i like it so it's good. final. & it'll be famous one day and you can say you met and worked with the original AmandaKay.
sounds good to me
see you all later and don't be afraid to ask for my myspace if you'd like to keep in contact.
Final Bow,
AmandaKay
Friday, July 18, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
The best thing/A story
The best thing i've learned so far. . .
in the summer program or in the 3 years since i've been enrolled in WIA in general?
well if were refering to the summer program, it'd have to be photoshop. i couldn't do it before and now i can at least make it look like im photoshop-literate. before i just butchered the whole thing and completely anihilated any chance of the results looking good.
if were refering to the 3 years since i've actualy been in WIA, i'd have to say swollowing my pride i guess? if you've read my first blog, you've heard the story so i need not repeat it hear again. twas a difficult thing to do and to an extent i am a better person for it.
annnnd i've got plenty of time to burn so i'll tell you a story, ok?
alright.
once upon a time there was a guy named Franco. franco was a narcaleptic narcassist. his girlfriend LoRita was dumb as a box of rocks. one day they went skateing and Franco fell asleep on his rollerblades while looking at himself in a nearby puddle. he fell down and broke his leg and LoRita being the blond she is just kept skating and didn't even notice when she fell over the railing and plunged to her death. Franco, seeing that he didn't have his cell phone, bleed out on the sidewalk.
achem, happy endings?
forget that
AmandaKay
in the summer program or in the 3 years since i've been enrolled in WIA in general?
well if were refering to the summer program, it'd have to be photoshop. i couldn't do it before and now i can at least make it look like im photoshop-literate. before i just butchered the whole thing and completely anihilated any chance of the results looking good.
if were refering to the 3 years since i've actualy been in WIA, i'd have to say swollowing my pride i guess? if you've read my first blog, you've heard the story so i need not repeat it hear again. twas a difficult thing to do and to an extent i am a better person for it.
annnnd i've got plenty of time to burn so i'll tell you a story, ok?
alright.
once upon a time there was a guy named Franco. franco was a narcaleptic narcassist. his girlfriend LoRita was dumb as a box of rocks. one day they went skateing and Franco fell asleep on his rollerblades while looking at himself in a nearby puddle. he fell down and broke his leg and LoRita being the blond she is just kept skating and didn't even notice when she fell over the railing and plunged to her death. Franco, seeing that he didn't have his cell phone, bleed out on the sidewalk.
achem, happy endings?
forget that
AmandaKay
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Deplorable Directions and Creativity
breakouts today. . .errm, interesting?
toilet paper fact time, holdin' hands & mine fields.
ah hahah,
1) toilet paper fact time: tell us 1 thing about yourself for each piec you take
2) holdin' hands: link hands with 2 different people and untangle yourself. or try. . .
3) mine fields: blind folded people are given directions to try and acoid stepping on pieces of toilet paper. & I SUCKED AT THAT.
how you ask? i can give WRITTEN directions, not spoken. so i guess: Im sorry, Kyle for i indeed suck at life.
annie whoo. .i guess what i'd bring to a team would be my creativity, my ability to write and keeping things fun. my crativity for visual and written arts is deffinatly unique to myself alone. i don't think like other people and i use words and word order that people usualy won't use when writting. im also a fun person to be around [or at least i think] and i don't have a difficult time making people laugh or smile. i like being able to do that. but i can also listen better than most people. i usualy let others get through their entier spiel before i give imput or advice and i think it's important to get the entier story before giving any advice. im deffinalty someone who people unload on and tell their problems to. and thats cool. i think it's amazing that people feel comfortable and trust me enough to do that. but it dose have it's downs, if it's particularly stressing im going to think about it and dwell.
if you ask me a straightforward question, i will to the best of my ability give you a straightforward answer, but im not an open up and spill my guts out sort of person. and those i think are good qualities in a co-worker and i believe that i can do well in an office setting. i don't know if i want to work in one tho, cubicles are to small and cramped and inpersonal. not to mention stale, listless, unexciting and a blur of similarity. i'd prefer a vivid, colorfull, stimulating enviroment full of positivity and happiness and - all the rudeness drama and dreariness. is that to much to ask? probably because people naturaly conflict with each other. i'd have to work by myself. in my home. for get that, it's boring.
AmandaKay
toilet paper fact time, holdin' hands & mine fields.
ah hahah,
1) toilet paper fact time: tell us 1 thing about yourself for each piec you take
2) holdin' hands: link hands with 2 different people and untangle yourself. or try. . .
3) mine fields: blind folded people are given directions to try and acoid stepping on pieces of toilet paper. & I SUCKED AT THAT.
how you ask? i can give WRITTEN directions, not spoken. so i guess: Im sorry, Kyle for i indeed suck at life.
annie whoo. .i guess what i'd bring to a team would be my creativity, my ability to write and keeping things fun. my crativity for visual and written arts is deffinatly unique to myself alone. i don't think like other people and i use words and word order that people usualy won't use when writting. im also a fun person to be around [or at least i think] and i don't have a difficult time making people laugh or smile. i like being able to do that. but i can also listen better than most people. i usualy let others get through their entier spiel before i give imput or advice and i think it's important to get the entier story before giving any advice. im deffinalty someone who people unload on and tell their problems to. and thats cool. i think it's amazing that people feel comfortable and trust me enough to do that. but it dose have it's downs, if it's particularly stressing im going to think about it and dwell.
if you ask me a straightforward question, i will to the best of my ability give you a straightforward answer, but im not an open up and spill my guts out sort of person. and those i think are good qualities in a co-worker and i believe that i can do well in an office setting. i don't know if i want to work in one tho, cubicles are to small and cramped and inpersonal. not to mention stale, listless, unexciting and a blur of similarity. i'd prefer a vivid, colorfull, stimulating enviroment full of positivity and happiness and - all the rudeness drama and dreariness. is that to much to ask? probably because people naturaly conflict with each other. i'd have to work by myself. in my home. for get that, it's boring.
AmandaKay
My Legacy
if i could choose a way to be remembered, my own legacy i don't think i'd want a statue or monument or anything material. i'd like to be remebered for my personality or my writing. maybe for being easy going but not to excentric or overbearing but bubbly and positive. i could quite possibly write things for the yearbook like an intro or something. that could be it. it could also be that i went the extra for this job even tho i didn't honestly need to. maybe for the friends i've made here, but i know most of them won't be long lasting no mater how much i'd like them to be. i'd people to leave here with an inpression of me thats not negative and remember what we did here and know we had a ball - the dresses.
i like it here, i like doing this all the time. i asked for digital media for my TEC class, but i was drawn out to low on the list [they picked names out of a hat, a silly idea i know] im happy that i got to do it this summer tho, even if it's just for 2 weeks. perhaps it could be for how good i am at this stuff? not so much for photoshop buttttt, for blogging and other stuff.
but we'll see how it turns out. im probably not going to blog about it seeing as how this friday is my last day here & we going on a field trip that day so, no blog that day. just hospitals. yay.
AmandaKay
i like it here, i like doing this all the time. i asked for digital media for my TEC class, but i was drawn out to low on the list [they picked names out of a hat, a silly idea i know] im happy that i got to do it this summer tho, even if it's just for 2 weeks. perhaps it could be for how good i am at this stuff? not so much for photoshop buttttt, for blogging and other stuff.
but we'll see how it turns out. im probably not going to blog about it seeing as how this friday is my last day here & we going on a field trip that day so, no blog that day. just hospitals. yay.
AmandaKay
Monday, July 14, 2008
1 Down
the first week of work was. . .wow. ok, that was fun. now, go back and read that WITHOUT the sarcasm swich in your head turned on. you did that? good. because it was fun and because i did enjoy it. met some sweetly wicked people. sam, fe, stina kris & all them. digital media is a load of fun because of what we do [photoshopping, blogging, movies ect.] and who i work with. it's been hilarious hanging with everybody.
but theres been drama. and rumors. granted not that major but still. a week in and then the fecal matter hits the oscilator. good lotta fun. im just happy none of it's about me [YAY!] at least not yet. usualy it happens but i've tried to get on everybody's good side and not rock the boat. and i don't think theres anybody here i don't actualy like and i don't believe there are people here who don't like me. but hey, who knows maybe you secretly despise me. but you wanna know a secret? i honestly couldn't care less.
im slightly upset that after this week is over, i won't be in digital media. i move on to food. so, whats gonna stop me from eating every last thing? nothing. because i KNOW were making things like cookies and omlets [not that i like scrambled eggs, but you know] and stuff like that. i made rice crispie treat yesturday and i was eating it while i was making it. im not really looking forward to transfering. mrs. t, if you read this: KEEP ME HERE!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! achem. im done with all that now.
so, im summary: sarcasm, hilarity, drama, oscilator, sadness, foodlyness, begging return to normal state :D
AmandaKay
but theres been drama. and rumors. granted not that major but still. a week in and then the fecal matter hits the oscilator. good lotta fun. im just happy none of it's about me [YAY!] at least not yet. usualy it happens but i've tried to get on everybody's good side and not rock the boat. and i don't think theres anybody here i don't actualy like and i don't believe there are people here who don't like me. but hey, who knows maybe you secretly despise me. but you wanna know a secret? i honestly couldn't care less.
im slightly upset that after this week is over, i won't be in digital media. i move on to food. so, whats gonna stop me from eating every last thing? nothing. because i KNOW were making things like cookies and omlets [not that i like scrambled eggs, but you know] and stuff like that. i made rice crispie treat yesturday and i was eating it while i was making it. im not really looking forward to transfering. mrs. t, if you read this: KEEP ME HERE!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE! achem. im done with all that now.
so, im summary: sarcasm, hilarity, drama, oscilator, sadness, foodlyness, begging return to normal state :D
AmandaKay
Friday, July 11, 2008
60 second advertisment
"berries and cream berries and cream, im a little lad who loves berries and cream!
berries and cream berries and cream, im a little lad who loves berries and cream!"
first time i saw it, i had the *:O :D XD* reaction of omg. . .LOL ROTFL. it was simply one of the best comercials i've ever heard in my life. not counting, of course, superbowl comercials and the ones i saw before the age of. . .me actualy remembering? you have to hand it to the the people in advertisment over at starburst. that commerical is an amazingly remeberable piece of work. it gets stuck in your head and you think about it all the time. but thats the point, isn't it? to make your product something people talk about and want to buy. a catchy song, logo, or motto will get people to buy things
i remeber that im supposed to call '1-800-hansons get it done!' which instantly made me think larry the cable guy and im sure im not alone. i know im supposed to call bernstein or lee free if i need an attorney to sue some poor soul. i know if i want tacos i should think outside the bun, and that if i want a burgers i should go see the king. though it wouldn't happen as i don't eat meat and the king is rendered obsolete. not elvis, just burger king. elvis is the man.
companys spend billions every year to get people to smoke their cigarettes, eat their foods, shop their stores and drink their products. personaly i've never sued anybody, i don't smoke or most of those other things. so every time i see those advertisments and don't buy the product, they lose money. but hey they think getting the message in our heads is good enough. and it is. we remeber it and it's instantly brought up in our minds when were randomly reminded about it or need the product.
well, mission accomplished corporate america. i now know tons of mottos, slogans, jingles and other advertising montra. and to think i could've used that space to learn a foreign language or geometry. but hey, if getting my money is more important than obtaining the skills i may one day need to get a job or possibly save my life then i hope you'll feel better about yourself
*thumbs up*
in crticism and satire,
AmandaKay
berries and cream berries and cream, im a little lad who loves berries and cream!"
first time i saw it, i had the *:O :D XD* reaction of omg. . .LOL ROTFL. it was simply one of the best comercials i've ever heard in my life. not counting, of course, superbowl comercials and the ones i saw before the age of. . .me actualy remembering? you have to hand it to the the people in advertisment over at starburst. that commerical is an amazingly remeberable piece of work. it gets stuck in your head and you think about it all the time. but thats the point, isn't it? to make your product something people talk about and want to buy. a catchy song, logo, or motto will get people to buy things
i remeber that im supposed to call '1-800-hansons get it done!' which instantly made me think larry the cable guy and im sure im not alone. i know im supposed to call bernstein or lee free if i need an attorney to sue some poor soul. i know if i want tacos i should think outside the bun, and that if i want a burgers i should go see the king. though it wouldn't happen as i don't eat meat and the king is rendered obsolete. not elvis, just burger king. elvis is the man.
companys spend billions every year to get people to smoke their cigarettes, eat their foods, shop their stores and drink their products. personaly i've never sued anybody, i don't smoke or most of those other things. so every time i see those advertisments and don't buy the product, they lose money. but hey they think getting the message in our heads is good enough. and it is. we remeber it and it's instantly brought up in our minds when were randomly reminded about it or need the product.
well, mission accomplished corporate america. i now know tons of mottos, slogans, jingles and other advertising montra. and to think i could've used that space to learn a foreign language or geometry. but hey, if getting my money is more important than obtaining the skills i may one day need to get a job or possibly save my life then i hope you'll feel better about yourself
*thumbs up*
in crticism and satire,
AmandaKay
Thursday, July 10, 2008
On First Impressions - Hark! Job Skills
Ok, lets say im the big bosswoman. and your want to work for me.
STOP!
before you even ASK for an application, consider what would be appropriate to work at my esablishment. the top 5 things i'd throw your app out for are as follows:
1) Your Dress: you come in. your in your pjs. your hairs all scruffy and greasy. if your a woman, it looks like your still wearing yesturday's makeup. if ican smell you from 30 ft away and it's NOT perfume, don't think your even going to be considered. your app will meet mr. trashcan as soon as you walk out the door. you won't even get a call back
2) the way you speak: 'so dude. like umm i need this job cuz i uhhh have bills to pay and errr. ..' UMMM UHHH ERRRRRR, your not getting the job. please, learn proper english then come and see me.
3)Your App: white out. messy. i honestly don't mind colorful application, just don't turn it into an art canvas. and i'd still like to be able to read the ink, alright? if you can't wright in a legible manor, don't be afraid to type it or even dictate to someone else. switch hands, maybe?
4)Manners: show some respect. not only to someone who could be your boss but to your cowerkers and YOURSELF. don't put yourself down, show some confidence. it makes me think your more ble to do the job. if you come into my office and your flat out rude to people you meet, your app will be trashed. racism, sexism, discrimination of any kind will warrant your termination or app being thrown out. that includes discrimination of nationality or sexual orientation. it will NOT be tolerated.
5) Reliability and Trustworthiness: your late, you never get stuff done on time or at all. you know what? goodbye, see you later. don't plan on continuing your employment here. enough said.
so now that you know evaluate the above qualities, if you can follow the rules and respect them, you'll get considered for the job. if you don't think you can, peace out.
AmandaKay
STOP!
before you even ASK for an application, consider what would be appropriate to work at my esablishment. the top 5 things i'd throw your app out for are as follows:
1) Your Dress: you come in. your in your pjs. your hairs all scruffy and greasy. if your a woman, it looks like your still wearing yesturday's makeup. if ican smell you from 30 ft away and it's NOT perfume, don't think your even going to be considered. your app will meet mr. trashcan as soon as you walk out the door. you won't even get a call back
2) the way you speak: 'so dude. like umm i need this job cuz i uhhh have bills to pay and errr. ..' UMMM UHHH ERRRRRR, your not getting the job. please, learn proper english then come and see me.
3)Your App: white out. messy. i honestly don't mind colorful application, just don't turn it into an art canvas. and i'd still like to be able to read the ink, alright? if you can't wright in a legible manor, don't be afraid to type it or even dictate to someone else. switch hands, maybe?
4)Manners: show some respect. not only to someone who could be your boss but to your cowerkers and YOURSELF. don't put yourself down, show some confidence. it makes me think your more ble to do the job. if you come into my office and your flat out rude to people you meet, your app will be trashed. racism, sexism, discrimination of any kind will warrant your termination or app being thrown out. that includes discrimination of nationality or sexual orientation. it will NOT be tolerated.
5) Reliability and Trustworthiness: your late, you never get stuff done on time or at all. you know what? goodbye, see you later. don't plan on continuing your employment here. enough said.
so now that you know evaluate the above qualities, if you can follow the rules and respect them, you'll get considered for the job. if you don't think you can, peace out.
AmandaKay
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