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Working at Publix. The manager I met with today described the job as "front-end representative."
I'm not entirely sure what that means given that it isn't in the list of jobs on their site, but I'm heading to orientation on Saturday and Sunday, so I'm sure I'll find out then.
Congrats!
...a Publix? I remember that chain from living in Florida! I guess they're a southeastern U.S. chain.
Yeah, they were founded in Florida in the 1930s and only started spreading after 2000 or so.
Indie band gig of the neighbours was okay, and they have a large gaggle of cute hipster gals, so I'll drop by that stuff more often. Disco at frat is a rad empty. Compared to previous night, a profound meh.
You ever don't want to get up because you realize your life is going nowhere fast?
Every morning, mon.
Congrats, ClockyCU!
I know that feel, but I haven't felt it lately. If I have trouble getting outta bed, it's because it's 6:30 and I'm sleep-deprived as it is.
^^^I know that feel.
I don't want to get up in the morning because I'm tired and it's cold outside my bed.
Otherwise, being up is far better than being in bed because my computer is not next to my bed.
There is a degree everyone considers the laughing stock of post-secondary education: BA in Communications Studies...
...the one I'm working towards.
Me sometimes in my undergrad years.
Well, it was more like, I was getting nowhere academically, even though I still found my social interactions really fun. And since said social interactions were generally an evening/nighttime thing...
For me, it's not so much life going nowhere fast as going where I don't think I'll like it.
That feel makes me not want to need to get up, but it also makes me not sleep well so I may as well get up.
It also makes me stay up late.
Wrote about half of a short story today. I have no idea if it's decent or not, but it's something.
My notifications all reset, I lost 14000 of them
Well, there's two main reasons for that:
First, that it's the typical "easy" degree that people choose when they don't know what else to do/go to college for the parties/etc.
Second, its competences are not really very well defined: everybody know what an accountant does... not so much for Communication Studies graduates.
Assuming you're doing it out of interest on the subject, and you have a somewhat clear idea of what field of work you want to get into, or what further studies you will be pursuing, it shouldn't be that much of a problem.
Communication Studies is the Humanities equivalent of Business Administration, basically.
Ninjaclown, if it makes you feel any better, I'm double-majoring in two things where I'm not even sure if either will be that useful. (Creative Writing and English. inb4 they're the same thing)
English is not Creative Writing, but Creative Writing is English! :P
Unless it's French!
Watching the Witcher TV series right now. It's like some kind of bizarre, before-its-time mashup of Xena and Game of Thrones. Some of the lore changes certainly aren't for the best, and it's missed some opportunities to do some cool stuff (the siege of Kaer Morhen springs to mind). It's also weirdly obsessed with romance subplots, to the extent that Geralt needs a new love interest every episode until Yennefer hits the scene. It also expect the audience to give a damn despite the fact that it pulls this at least three times, missing the first episode only via the technicality that Geralt is a child.
The Witchers have this kind of samurai angle that I don't like. Cultural mashups are all well and good, but I somehow have this perception that The Witcher in particular should be adhering to the historical European forms of combat rather than doing an Elder Scrolls kind of cultural insertion. Nothing against that, mind -- it fits in The Elder Scrolls series, just not here. And despite drawing from legitimate martial arts, the fighting in this series jumps between overindulgent and boringly standard without finding a consistent and believable middle ground. Geralt's fighting style also lacks martial credibility because of its lack of initiative. I know that defensive fighting styles being superior is a sort of semi-trope, but it's also pretty wrong, especially given that a defensive fighting style will get you killed exceedingly quickly if you don't know exactly what you're doing.
One of my other gripes is that some episodes don't seem to have much point. They're simply stuff that happens without much of a consistent thread. Some episodes are much better than others on this count, but it's a pretty hefty mistake to make. But the biggest deal is that some episodes are just boring. The Witcher in book and game format has a reputation for seamlessly blending social commentary with awesome monster fights, but there's a lack of either in this series. That's a pretty big strike against the show when its main character is well known for being the best monster hunter in a long time.
To its credit, budget limitations are always a concern and they haven't done particularly badly with what I estimate was given to them. But all the romance takes up time that could be spent watching Geralt getting into bar fights over social injustice or cutting up gribbly monsters. Not that I'm opposed to romance, but it often feels shoehorned here for the sake of attracting a wider audience rather than being strictly relevant to the plot. The setting of The Witcher is intricately crafted so that going fisticuffs with nasty snarkgobblers will almost always be directly relevant to the plot and/or characters, so why not take advantage of it?
In some ways, it's probably the lack of budget that damages this show the most, but I think there were also some questionable creative decisions that disassociate it from the literary source material. For instance, the order of Witchers isn't actually run by them -- it's run by priests and druids. So the character of Vesemir, the chief Witcher insofar as the books and games are concerned, is actually split into two characters. And that just feels strange.
Also, I'm not sure how I feel about a Witcher's primary sword being a katana with a European aesthetic. Neat idea, but again, the samurai angle doesn't work for me here. Witchers are mercenaries with a mandate against involving themselves in human conflicts, slaying monsters for profit, so there's some disassociation between that and the samurai aesthetic of some of their gear and ceremonies. While it's not particularly true, most of us semantically associate the samurai with a more graceful, artful kind of warrior than in other places in the world. But a Witcher's job is brutal, killing animals born of unnatural forces that threaten human life, so the implications of the samurai elements seem to run counter to that.
Despite all of this, I am kind of having occasional fun with it and some episodes are genuinely interesting. If these episodes were the consistent standard, it would be a good series that I could recommend to anyone, budget concerns aside. But I can't shake the feeling that despite only having read two books, and through the possible pitfalls of English translation at that, I understand the setting and characters better than the guys who actually made the show. Geralt's character is pretty much right on the money, but the supporting cast? Eh. Not that I have any particular issues with the acting, it's just that the supporting characters don't seem to be written like the characters I recognise.
This is worth sailing the high seas for if you really like Witcher-related stuff or have a severe thirst for a swords-and-sorcery series with something different to offer. But it doesn't hold up to the new standard for such series set by Game of Thrones, and you'd be better off reading the Witcher books or playing the games. It's certainly not awful, but it has too many mistakes to really be worth the time of a wide audience. I give it five silver swords out of ten.
in case we thought this reviewer was an imposter alex
gotta cover all the bases
and count all the swords
all of them
Thanks for the kind words. Just trying to figure things out, one day at a time. Just like you guys.
Even if it's a relatively easy degree by popular perception, that means you have all the more time to spice up your CV in other arenas. Part-time jobs, volunteering, boards 'n committees, hobbies that show a certain skillset: plenty of stuff that's great fun and a good way to meet people.
Bluh, mindsets like that are why I burned out of business classes in college. The idea that everything I do has to be some part of a calculated effort to look good for other people is just nauseating.
Went into a Barnes and Noble today and was sad to discover that it was no longer primarily a bookstore.
So, I watched The Brothers Bloom.
Pretty neat and I liked the ending, but it has this weird pacing thing going on where sometimes it's engaging as hell and others it just sort of drags and slogs towards the next peak.
^^ What is it now? A coffee shop? Music store? Board games store? Media technology store?
Those, plus kids' toys and greeting cards, take up about 60% of the store.
Welp. My English professor has spent two weeks now talking about class participation goals for at least 10 minutes every class, as if people haven't already learned how to mentally manage class discussions, and contribute to them, in their 13+ years of schooling. This is getting tiresome, with only 65 minutes every class.
Trust me, people haven't.