Wednesday, October 29, 2008

A really really bad day

Well, I'm doing really well at these posts but I'm warning you now don't read this if you're in a good mood. This morning has been just awful. So, my story I get it in, even play it on our playback machine everything is just perfect on it. I'm really excited that I was able to make this huge package (I think the biggest we've ever done) and that I was feeling really good about how it turned out. So, first rehearsal, we're sitting there listening and mine comes up at the end well guess what it comes up but freezes then you hear the audio then it freezes again. So I start going crazy I'm sitting in the studio watching the show so I decide to go back to the control room to see what's going on, well the kid putting cueing up the packages accidentally played the version for the website he said no worries it will work just fine totally his fault. I'm like ok, I calm down and go back to the studio. In the process of all this I"m trying to study for this huge test I have coming up in my finance class that, well we all know how I feel about that class. Ok, so we start the show again (we're running near the end of class time so this is the real show) and my package starts, well the video plays just fine but the audio is all crazy. For some reason on the parts I did voice overs you can't hear me (just barely barely) and the parts where I did interviews or was shown in the shot you can. So I'm almost in tears while everyone is trying to say it's ok maybe they can edit it whatever. So class ends and I can't sit there adn worry about it so I go on to study for my finance test. Oh my heck I think this test is going to drop even my overall GPA. It was bad. I was sooo frustrated too because I feel like I study it, but anything math related just doesn't sink in. Well, I decide I cannot eat my 50 cent cup of noodles so I stopped at the Union for a sandwich which made my stomach hurt for some odd reason. Well I decided I needed to just try to make it a better day which I've been working on. Oddly enough I"m editing now stuff for work, but I have little motivation to do it since I had such issues with the editing for my class. Also, I let one of the guys who's working on promoting the college and he knows final cut and has been helping me out borrow the mini DV playback deck I have so he could load his footage on his computer. He returned it today and instead of me keeping it until Friday I took it down to the Communication Lab. Well the lab tech was in there working on the playback machine. Come to find out he's trying to figure out what happened to my package. I told him I checked audio it sounded just fine. He asked if I looked at the levels it had, I admitted I hadn't but he checked and they were for the most part level. He still after working on it couldn't figure out what happened and admitted it wasn't my fault as far as he could tell since he checked and it did seem to work for some reason it just didn't when they did the show. Sooooo, in the end even though it wasn't my fault my package was ruined and I"m the one looking like an idiot. The reason I cared so much is my professor sent this nasty email on Monday which totally almost made the entire class cry (it was bad I almost should post it) just saying how we need to step up and everything. I'm like I'm trying as hard as I possibly can and checked everything I could. So all in all it was a really sucky day, but the Jazz and World Series is on tonight so I'm trying to think positive. I feel a little better knowing at this point there wasn't anything I could do about it. Oh and also just warning you all please dont watch it tomorrow, I'm already embarassed enough.

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