A Midsummer Night's Dream (Summer 2014 Secret Santa) Discussion

[kawaiiwoofs]

it took me a while...but i found this thread again! yay! someone remind me to sign up if i dont lol

 

[meaganola]

Ugh.  My Rip City is taking over.  Wanna go to bed!  But there's a Blazers game on!  Playoffs!  Overtime!  I won't be able to go to sleep until I know the final score! 

(Also, note to radio people, especially ones who do Blazer promo voiceovers:  We know you are recording your voiceovers from the other side of the country when you say "BATE-uhm."  It's pronounced "buh-TOOM."  Actually, it's probably "bah-TOOM."  The dude is French.  And almost a god in this town.  Not knowing how to pronounce it here is like being in Congress and not knowing how to pronounce Reagan, regardless of how you personally feel about him.)

 

[elizabethrose]

Ugh.  My Rip City is taking over.  Wanna go to bed!  But there's a Blazers game on!  Playoffs!  Overtime!  I won't be able to go to sleep until I know the final score! 

(Also, note to radio people, especially ones who do Blazer promo voiceovers:  We know you are recording your voiceovers from the other side of the country when you say "BATE-uhm."  It's pronounced "buh-TOOM."  Actually, it's probably "bah-TOOM."  The dude is French.  And almost a god in this town.  Not knowing how to pronounce it here is like being in Congress and not knowing how to pronounce Reagan, regardless of how you personally feel about him.)

As someone who's going into journalism (admittedly, not sports journalism- although I might try to take a class, it seems fascinating!), I'm taking note that I should learn how to say last names before I get on air  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> . Fact-checking here I come!  I know someone doesn't know or is new to the Blackhawks when they struggle with Toews (pronounced "tays")!

 

[meaganola]

As someone who's going into journalism (admittedly, not sports journalism- although I might try to take a class, it seems fascinating!), I'm taking note that I should learn how to say last names before I get on air  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> . Fact-checking here I come!  I know someone doesn't know or is new to the Blackhawks when they struggle with Toews (pronounced "tays")!

Oh, that wasn't a sports announcer guy.  It was just your standard top 40 dj doing some sort of Blazers soda cup promo in the middle of the afternoon on a random weekend afternoon.  Virtually all of our music radio people (and most likely yours, in fact) have been outsourced to some random studio in someplace like Phoenix.  This is a big thing in the music radio world:  A big national corporation (typically Clear Channel -- the I Heart Radio company -- nowadays) will come in and buy out a local station, and then local announcers and programmers are laid off, and then the big corporation will automate the song selection and have one person record the in-between-the-songs bits for all of the corporation's stations all across the country, so you will have that one person in I-think-it's-Phoenix recording Bulls/Blazers/Nets/Lakers/Warriors/Knicks/Celtics/Mavericks/etc. promos.  I don't blame the dj.  I blame the corporation for de-localizing this stuff. 

And whoo!  120-123 Portland!  I live in the sort of neighborhood where there are big booms going off now.  And now I can go to bed!  And then I can face this workweek.  Ick.  Still short-handed, and it's month-end.  Double ick.  At least I have a nice stash of NatureBox snacks, though.  And new lip gloss.  Okay.  Bed now.  Really and truly.

 

[zadidoll]

Yay!  Just so all of the links are in one central place, Fairy Central Casting Call Lounge:

https://www.makeuptalk.com/t/142284/midsummer-swap-2014-fairy-central-casting-call-and-lounge

Survey brainstorming/discussion (please help edit this monster down!  I was having some major migraine fallout problems Friday night when I posted it, and there is some major culling that needs to happen): 

https://www.makeuptalk.com/t/142290/discussion-midsummer-swap-2014-survey-brainstorming

Hmm...  I should do something about my signature to reflect the new festivities! 

Have these links been updated to reflect the new site?

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Signups are OPEN!!!

https://www.makeuptalk.com/f/topic/131830-midsummer-nights-dream-signups-now-open/

@@zadidoll I'll post the updated links in here in just a few minutes.

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Et voila!  

Fairy Casting Call/Lounge:

http://www.makeuptal...all-and-lounge/

Midsummer Swap Survey Brainstorming (I will post the final survey in the Discussion thread soon!):

http://www.makeuptal...-brainstorming/

 

[tacehtpuekam]

Are the 'requirements' for signing up posted somewhere?

 

[puppymomofthree]

Are the 'requirements' for signing up posted somewhere?

Excellent point!  SO EXCITED!

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Are the 'requirements' for signing up posted somewhere?

The only requirement is that you HAVE to have participated in the Holiday 2013 Secret Santa, either the Regular OR Nails.  

(Also, just throwing this out as an idea - I'm thinking of hitting a few high-traffic threads today like Ipsy/Birchbox May discussions and the Enablers thread just to "advertise" if anyone hasn't found the Midsummer threads yet.  I promise I'll put in a whole thing about how you can only participate in this one if you did the Holiday one to avoid confusion.  Do you all think it's a good idea, or should I just stick with whoever has found these threads?  I don't want to create any resentment or hijack threads.)

 

[tacehtpuekam]

The only requirement is that you HAVE to have participated in the Holiday 2013 Secret Santa, either the Regular OR Nails.  

(Also, just throwing this out as an idea - I'm thinking of hitting a few high-traffic threads today like Ipsy/Birchbox May discussions and the Enablers thread just to "advertise" if anyone hasn't found the Midsummer threads yet.  I promise I'll put in a whole thing about how you can only participate in this one if you did the Holiday one to avoid confusion.  Do you all think it's a good idea, or should I just stick with whoever has found these threads?  I don't want to create any resentment or hijack threads.)

I'd hate to advertise something many of the members aren't eligible to participate in. :/ But would it be possible to send a mass message out to last year's group?

 

[puppymomofthree]

I'd hate to advertise something many of the members aren't eligible to participate in. :/ But would it be possible to send a mass message out to last year's group?

What a wonderful idea!  If it is possible for the mods who ran it last year to do so, that would be a fantastic way to advertise without causing disappointment to other members!  It might also bring some people back onto MUT who have been absent/not really active since the change.

 

[kawaiisofoxy]

Yes!  It would absolutely be possible.  I can get the whole Nails Group, and @@zadidoll do you happen to have a list hanging around somewhere convenient of the Regular Crew?  If not, I'm sure it's somewhere in the discussion thread.  It might take a little time to get together, but that is a great idea!  Thanks @ !!!   :wub:

Never mind, @@zadidoll ! I found the list you put at the tail end of the signups thread!  Yay you!!!

 

[SOSRedAlertSOS]

I'm so excited for this! Can't wait to make my girls wildest dreams come true!

 

[tacehtpuekam]

There are some people from the SS13 list that I'm pretty sure haven't posted since December/January lol

I wonder if any of those people will come back for this one. 

 

[kawaiiwoofs]

part one of a big fancy job interview today. wish me luck, fellow faries! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[tacehtpuekam]

part one of a big fancy job interview today. wish me luck, fellow faries! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Whooo! Good luck lady!  :flowers: Fancy new job to go with your fancy new haircut!

 

[kawaiiwoofs]

Whooo! Good luck lady!  :flowers: Fancy new job to go with your fancy new haircut!

thanks!

i think i'm going to get it re-cut in a few weeks... i specifically asked for NOT an angled bob. i hate those. of course, i end up with the stylist who has one and insists that its necessary. it looked fine when i first left the place but i definitely have those long-side pieces. merp

 

[Lolo22]

part one of a big fancy job interview today. wish me luck, fellow faries! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Good luck!! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[jennm149]

part one of a big fancy job interview today. wish me luck, fellow faries! /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

Good Luck!