Ok....I know it's been forever and a day since my last post, but so much has happened, and I haven't had time to get it all in. And now I realize I should've just written whatever and saved it.

First of all, no disrespect to the hosts of this career fair, but I went to a pretty lame career fair. Well, let me not say lame. BUT.....I can't say that it was worth my waking up early to put together 10 tapes and printing out several resumes.

Only 2 companies that I would be interested in (and incidentally, who I also have sent tapes to in the past) were there. Wait, let me take that back, there was a 3rd english speaking tv station, but it was the station I worked for. So I talked to the HR person that was there a bit and then moved on.

But when I first got there, I walked in, saw someone that has critiqued my tape before, and chatted with him a bit. Told him about my job search so far. And he gave me his perspective, took my tape, and I moved on. Then that's when I moved on to my station. Then I passed another station, the banner was for a Spanish-speaking station, but I later found out they were also representing another station, that wasn't exactly a Spanish-speaking station. BUT it was a station I had sent my tape to before, and heard nothing, so I didn't feel too bad.

So after I left my station I walk around the corner (b/c there were only like 8 booths total) pass by more radio stations and Spanish-speaking stations and come up on another station that I had sent my tape to. But I'm thinking it's XYZW, but it was actually XAZW. But still, it was a station I sent my tape to. I looked at the name tag of the guy sitting there and realized oh yeah, he told me to send him a tape. So I said "heyyyyy I sent you a tape a while ago" and he's like "okay yeah I was wondering how you looked familiar." And he asks me about what I'm doing now, says I'm getting a lot of great experience and to email him and tell him I saw him. Cool beans!!!

But on the up side, I ran into an old high school classmate, we exchanged information and then I went to work. I got there an hour and a half later than usual, and that really upset me. But on top of that, my account hadn't been reestablished yet, so it was weird.

But this morning, I finally got a hold of the ND that said I was a final candidate, and he said the exact same thing, but that he still has my tape and just to send another application.

So things are lookin up. I'll keep my 1 or 2 faithful readers posted in the mean time!!!!!

Ciao!!!!!

10 Favorites

Favorite Color: Lavender

Favorite Food: Shrimp etouffee

Favorite Singer: CeCe Winans

Favorite Song: Gotta Be-Jagged Edge

Favorite Movie: Coming to America

Favorite Sport: Basketball

Favorite Season: Spring

Favorite Day Of the Week: It’s Saturday!!!!!!!!

Favorite Position: Management (I don’t know why I’m so bossy, LOL)

9 Currents

Current Taste: Something with shrimp

Current Clothes: Dark blue jeans, t-shirt

Current Desktop Picture: LOL, my baby boo

Current Location: Living room

Current Time: 4:05 p.m.

Current Crush: My baby boo-he knows who he is

Current Thought: I’m hungry, don’t know what I want, and there’s no shrimp here

Current Enemy: Debt

Current procrastination: Need to fold and put away (or save as my baby boo says) my clothes

8 Firsts

First Best Friend: Lillian

First Kiss: Sometime during Kindergarten, his name was/is Mario

First Screen Name: gapbaby104

First Time: LOL that’s on a need to know basis, and nobody needs to know that that is not determining whether I get into heaven

First Yearbook caption: I don’t even remember

First Crush: Kindergarten-Mario

First Music You Remember Hearing: Gospel music

First Car: Used: ‘97 Nissan Altima

7 Lasts

Last Cigarette: I never picked up the habit, but tried it when I was a freshman in high school, took 2 puffs and that was it.

Last Alcoholic drink: During my friend’s family reunion, before we went to the club

Last Car Ride: Friday, on our way to a story

Last Kiss: January 1, 2006

Last Movie Seen: Madea's Family Reunion

Last Phone Call: them durn student loan people

Last CD Played: Kirk Franklin’s Hero

6 Have You Evers

Have You Ever Made Love to One Of Your Male Friends: Yes

Have You Ever Been Arrested: Nope, and don’t plan on it

Have You Ever Skinny Dipped: Nope

Have You Ever Been on TV: Yes

Have You Ever Kissed Someone You Didn't Know: Ummm, probably one of the elderly mother’s at the church, on the cheek, but nobody else that I can really recall.

5 Things

5 Things You've Done Today: Checked my voicemail, checked my e-mail, paid the electric bill, sent a tape off for a job, watched my stories, LOL.

5 Things You Can Hear Right Now: My momma telling me goodbye, my dog‘s tag as she shakes, her sniffing, the tv, the sound of an IM buddy coming online.

5 Things You Do When You're Bored: watch tv, sleep, spend money I don't have, surf the net, read

4 Places

4 Places you want to visit: Spain, England, Italy, France

3 People

3 People You Can Tell Anything To: My baby boo, my best friend Toya and my other best friend Renee.

2 Choices...

A) Black or White: Black

B) Hot or Cold: Cold

1 Thing

1 Thing You Want to Do Before you die: Be successful in all aspects of my life.

Okay I just saw something that bothers me greatly, but I don't think about it often, but since I just saw it, I thought I'd blog about it.

For people not on television, not in television news, not used to be around a camera, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MAKE ANY CRAZY FACES, HAND SIGNALS OR NOISES!!!!

I just watched a live shot one of our reporters did, and a guy in the background saw the camera and came straight towards it and made a hand signal (it wasn't bad, it was his school's mascot). But that crap is annoying.

It reminds me of when another reporter did a story one night, and she was surrounded by a bunch of college kids, and they were screaming their butts off so much she had to move.

Again, PLEASE DO NOT ATTEMPT TO MAKE ANY CRAZY FACES, HAND SIGNALS OR NOISES!!!! and for that matter NO FACES, HAND SIGNALS OR NOISES AT ALL; positive or negative.

This also reminded me of that Ollie and whoever show in NY, that I believe CAUSED the dismissal of a reporter b/c this show's hosts encouraged listeners to taunt reporters, especially when they're doing live shots, b/c it's "funny." It's not, trust me, it looks stupid, it looks unnatural, and fake, and the news is not supposed to be like that.

I say, for us journalists, if these people do it to us, we should go to their jobs and taunt them and interfere with their work. We're doing a service to them, and they're taunting us, mocking us, etc.

Once again, non-tv news people and non-journalists, DON'T BOTHER US AND WE WON'T BOTHER YOU!!!!