I talked with the Dean of the College last week and confirmed that I'll be staying on throughout the school year! Yippee!! I'll work between 20 and 30 hours a week, depending on the projects that I have going on. The core of my job duties will be working with the Director of Advancement on fundraising/marketing/development projects and then coordinating the programs for the music recitals. I wouldn't have thought the latter would be a big deal, but there are 40 in the fall semester alone. The headache will be getting the program information from the faculty and students in a timely fashion. There is a faculty member that is already two and half weeks late getting his information in..... errrrr! I wonder if that means the programs can be two and half weeks late... haha! Since the programs are sent out for printing, it gets to be a big pain.
I guess with each job comes some frustration. Good news though! As part of my job with Advancement, in October I'll be heading to the Packer ProShop to hang out with an UW-Whitewater Alum who has written a book - "Mudbaths & Bloodbaths: The Inside Story of the Bears-Packers Rivalry." He is having a book signing at the ProShop and part of sales will be given back to the College of Arts and Communication. He's a Communications graduate that works for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Both the Dean and the Director are busy, so they are sending me. Should be kind of a fun project -- It would be better if it was a game day, and I had a free ticket to the game.... oh well
Thursday, August 24, 2006
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
Sweet Baby James
I finally treated myself to a concert ... Last Tuesday I headed into Madison to see James Taylor at the Coliseum. It was an excellent concert - very cool! He played all my faves ... "Fire and Rain," "Carolina," "Steamroller," "Shower the People" ... even a few surprises - "Oh What a Beautiful Morning" from the musical "Oklahoma!" and "The River is Wide." It definitely got me fired up to see more live performances and take advantage of living so close to so much.
Here's the review: http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/entertainment/index.php?ntid=95006&ntpid=3
Here's the review: http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/entertainment/index.php?ntid=95006&ntpid=3
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
Dreams...
Last weekend I had my recurring dream that usually surfaces during periods of stress in my life. I hadn't had one since the end of the Spring semester, and didn't think things were too terribly stressful in my life right now, outside of working a bazillion hours. The premise of this dream is that I'm about to go on stage for a performance and I don't know my lines. It's literally minutes before my cue and I'm frantically studying the script and experiencing lots of anxiety. Sometimes I wake up before going on stage, other times I go on stage and just "wing it." This time I wasn't freaked out about not knowing my lines ... I just walked out on stage with script in hand. LOL Don't know if it means anything at all, but when I woke it made me chuckle.
Monday, August 07, 2006
Quick trip to Rhlder!
Last week I made a day/night trip to Rhinelander to join in a Nicolet Players celebration/volunteer appreciation. I had a BLAST!! I saw several people I haven't seen in a while and jogged my memory about past Nicolet productions. Thanks to Jim, Kay, and Kristin for all their work in putting together this shindig. (Note: I'm going to steal this idea when I have my own theatre!) :^D
The past week at the college I've been updating the Theatre/Dance Department website - putting the 2005-06 and summer season into the archives and getting the 06-07 season on the website. Feel free to check out the website:
http://academics.uww.edu/CAC/Theatre/Season.htm (06-07 Season)
http://academics.uww.edu/CAC/Theatre/archivesnew/archives.htm (archives)
Today I met with the stage manager of a production called The Center Line. I'm going to coordinate the publicity and promotion of this ALL student production. Written by a fellow student, this play is completely student driven - all the design, acting, directing, publicity, etc. is done by the students. The only involvement of the college has been .... "yep, you can rehearse and perform here." With it opening Sept. 1st, I had better get moving - less than four weeks. Since it's a student driven production, I have to work on it outside of my hours at the college... rightfully so. This week is going to be tough since I'm working 40 hours at the college and 38 at the bar ... ugh! But I think I can get the script read and a draft of the press release written on Wednesday night. LOL Good thing I work well with deadlines!
The past week at the college I've been updating the Theatre/Dance Department website - putting the 2005-06 and summer season into the archives and getting the 06-07 season on the website. Feel free to check out the website:
http://academics.uww.edu/CAC/Theatre/Season.htm (06-07 Season)
http://academics.uww.edu/CAC/Theatre/archivesnew/archives.htm (archives)
Today I met with the stage manager of a production called The Center Line. I'm going to coordinate the publicity and promotion of this ALL student production. Written by a fellow student, this play is completely student driven - all the design, acting, directing, publicity, etc. is done by the students. The only involvement of the college has been .... "yep, you can rehearse and perform here." With it opening Sept. 1st, I had better get moving - less than four weeks. Since it's a student driven production, I have to work on it outside of my hours at the college... rightfully so. This week is going to be tough since I'm working 40 hours at the college and 38 at the bar ... ugh! But I think I can get the script read and a draft of the press release written on Wednesday night. LOL Good thing I work well with deadlines!