Stood Up

Got my informational interview out of the way Friday morning. I think it went pretty well. At the very least, I got a lot of ooohs and aahhs over the wig and hat I brought in as visual aides. The obviously-drawn-and-crappy-last-minute chart I drew outlining positions inside the costume shop? Not so much. (shrug.)

Best part about it is the fact that I never did my information interview prior to the speech and I still did fine. Oh, I definitely tried to line on eup, don't get me wrong, but it did not go smoothly. The Opera never called me back, and about a week before the speech I realized they weren't going to either and I had to find someone else to do it. There's a theater in Palo Alto I'm going to apply for an internship at, and while I didn't want to mix the two, I put in an email to the director seeing if there was someone who could help me. She hooked me up with a woman who agreed to do it via email (she was very busy) and would have them to me by Thursday night.

[crickets]

So! Friday night I busted my ass coming up with the info on the interwebs, and did pretty good. Only about a 5-10% BS rate. I was also able to hand over the email dialogue to my teacher, outlining the fact that I got shined, and would she please take that into consideration? I think she'll probably take that into consideration.

Mostly I'm just glad its done. Everyone else in class has to do it the last day of class, when we also have a final project due. No doubling up for me, thanks. Lets spread this out as much as we can.

Oh, and that woman? Called me as I was driving home from class Friday afternoon. She'd gotten totally swamped with a last minute photoshoot at the theater and just did not have time. The answered questions were in my email waiting for me when I got home. I forwarded them right off to my teacher. :)