I Can’t Get Started
I’d say it’s a law universally recognized that a bad week tends to follow a good week. Well, not too bad, but not as good. Monday was pretty regular, but Tuesday was full of trying to write a decent resume and cover letter for an assignment we have to do in technical writing. We are going to be doing behavior-based interviews next week, but the problem is that my one job gave me little to no actual experience with things like decision-making and creativity. I answered their phone and files their papers. I’ve said it before; a seven-year-old could have done that job. Thus, I have no way of intelligently answering the “what did you do in this situation?” questions. Because there has been no situation.
Tuesday is when the misunderstanding of the week happened. We had to find a job ad and write our cover letters according to it. Then someone asked the teacher if we could use the example ad if we couldn’t find a real one and she said yes. At least, that was how I perceived it. Apparently, she meant we could use the ad to prepare for the interview. So when I handed my resume and cover letter in on Thursday, written according to the example ad, I found out that I had made a huge mistake and possibly screwed up the whole assignment because I didn’t have the experience the ad asked for.
Here is the very best and most accurate analogy I can think of to describe Thursday afternoon when my teacher e-mailed me saying that we weren’t supposed to use that ad:
The part in Invader Zim where his finger is hovering meaningfully over the “self-destruct” button on his wrist when things are going badly, but changes his mind when the situation suddenly improves. She accepted the assignment anyway. Sigh of relief.
Well, things started looking up after that because Friday was actually rather fun. It was SAIT’s open house day, so despite the preternaturally short high-school kids everywhere, we had fun getting free popcorn! The playlist they had, though, was very likely no more than ten songs long because I heard ‘The Rising’ and ‘Soak up the Sun’ three times each. Pitiful! After print materials class we found out that we can’t move our InDesign class up because there is another class in our lab. So yesterday he just gave us the assignment and said we could leave if we wanted.
That evening I watched Mulan II with Kim and Jen. Gotta say… wow. It was crap compared the the first Mulan. The storyline… what the heck! Anyways, the Forum died earlier in the day so Kim was trying to bring it back, but alas, it is gone. So we made a new one and hopefully it will be as good as the first forum.
