While the music department trekked off to PMEA last week I took a long weekend for myself.

I had a job interview for a company that turned out to not even have the same name it advertised itself under, and whose ad for “Sales Representatives” really meant “Life Insurance Agents.” Not OK. The place looked pretty nice but they kept me waiting in an empty office for half an hour before my interviewer remembered me (“Sorry I just never wrote this meeting down, you know how that goes!”) and described how I would soon be visiting Senior Citizens in their homes to sell them life insurance.

Thanks, lady. I’ll take that job if there’s honestly nothing else for me to do. But working 50-60 hours a week, mainly in the (ghetto) field, for naught but commission is not exactly what I was looking for in a post-college job.

On the up-side, I photographed a wedding with Lori on Saturday. I’m doing her wedding in June, so we went together to a small wedding in western MD Saturday afternoon and had a decent time. I won’t go into detail on how the church was covered in dead ladybugs, the reception room was small/stuffy, and the guests were relatively boring…

Once Lori has all the photos up professionally on Pictage, I’ll send a link to that, but I think I can show you some of (the very few I have of) my images now…

Oh and now that I have a fancy MacBook Pro (that I don’t use at school) you can expect some new layouts and things in those 10 days between classes and graduation! And can I say that the only thing stopping me from buying Adobe CS3 right now is that the website won’t validate my student ID/discount… ($600 is ok, $1800 is not)?

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Orchestra: today 4-6, tomorrow 10-4, Sunday 2:30-4

As much as I love Bloch’s Sacred Service and enjoy playing with choir… this paper is not going to write itself. In a way it saddens me to think I’m writing my final final-paper for who knows how long. Not that I really enjoy writing, but its a rite of passage I’ve grown used to.

I’ll be home next weekend to photograph a wedding on the 21st and see all the of beautiful people I missed over Easter Break. Perhaps sometime then I’ll work on this paper. And can I say that I do not appreciate upper-level final papers with specific prompts? I’ve been following your syllabus all semester, can you please let me explore what I want now?

Although I suppose a paper on how Jekyll&Hyde foreshadowed super heros isn’t too in line with the class, but it would make for an interesting argument.

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Alright, so. I’ve been officially rejected from graduate school, which isn’t a huge surprise. Now that I have that letter from MICA (thanks guys, for mailing everything on April 1 instead of when you make decisions) I can change my FAFSA information back to undergraduate student and see how much I can get from SCAD that way.

As of Wednesday morning I had applied to 15 full-time photography and sales jobs in the past month. I heard back from two saying positions had already been filled, and got a call in reference to my application from a “leading national marketing firm” on Thursday. Ironically, I was working when the call came in so I returned the call on Friday but it being Good Friday I’m hoping I get yet another call on Monday, even though I can’t come back to Maryland until the 20th…

So in short, I still don’t know where I’m working or living starting May 14, but it better not default to MT and parents’ house.

Also, I’m trying to find community orchestras in the Annapolis/Baltimore area and there’s nothing! Concert Bands, Symphonic Bands, Wind Bands, Wind Ensembles, you name it. But nothing with strings outside of the occasional upright bass.

Aren’t we glad we asked for this uplifting entry? I’ll get around to looking at all of your lives once Easter Break is over on Tuesday. Whoooo.

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