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

[elizabethrose]

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.

Hearing that music radio DJ's has most likely been outsourced is sad to me /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  I'm not a music radio person- I'll just spotify radio that stuff.. but as a HUGE public radio fan and as someone going into the industry, I feel like there are plenty of people who love doing music reporting and probably radio.  I mean I guess there's publications like AV Club (which might hit some music maybe?) and tons of other online music publications, but radio!  So big!  (even if you're big, a corporation should fact check /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> although it's sad that they're no longer local)

Not an NBA fan, so glad that Portland pulled through for you!

 

[elizabethrose]

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

Good luck lady!!  :flowers:

 

[jennm149]

Silly story from this weekend.  I got paid on Friday, so Saturday morning, we went through and paid bills (OMG -- the one time every quarter I hate living in NJ is when I pay the property tax bill!).  While doing that, we came across the title to one of our cars and wanted to put it in a little fireproof box where we keep stuff like that.  But the box wasn't in the spot in the office where it usually is, it wasn't in the alternate spot in our bedroom closet where it is when it's not in the office ... long story short, we spent the next 30 hours or so turning the whole house more or less upside down trying to find it. 

After lunch on Sunday, I pulled all of the stuff out of the guest room closet, thinking maybe we'd put it in the back of the closet or in one of the suitcases we store there, and nothing.  I went back to the office to report to my husband.  We were discussing next steps when I noticed a handle under his computer monitor.  "John," I said.  "Look at your monitor."  "What, why?"  "Just look at the damn monitor -- then look UNDER the monitor."  There was the box, where he'd put it to raise the height so he could take a picture of the monitor for some reason last week.  Ugh.

Why do I bring this up here?  Well, while he was "cleaning" the office closet, I spent some time poring through my monstrous stash of stuff.  I have two cubic feet of various samples -- not counting the stuff I've been stashing under my dressing table for the past couple of months that I haven't sorted in.  I can't wait to go through it to find the perfect sandal-stuffers once I find out who my fairy god-daughter is!

 

[Elizabeth Mac]

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

Best of luck!! This reminds me that I need to start the job hunting process  :wacko2:

 

[tweakabell]

Zs turn to be Star of the Week. She's super excited. She looks so old in this pic. Aahhh, my lil one is growing up!

 

[puppymomofthree]

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

Sprinkling all the fairy dust in the forest on you today!  (Don't worry, it is invisible to interviewers!)

 

[puppymomofthree]

Hearing that music radio DJ's has most likely been outsourced is sad to me /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  I'm not a music radio person- I'll just spotify radio that stuff.. but as a HUGE public radio fan and as someone going into the industry, I feel like there are plenty of people who love doing music reporting and probably radio.  I mean I guess there's publications like AV Club (which might hit some music maybe?) and tons of other online music publications, but radio!  So big!  (even if you're big, a corporation should fact check /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" /> although it's sad that they're no longer local)

Not an NBA fan, so glad that Portland pulled through for you!

NPR is my JAM!  I love it so much!!!!

 

[elizabethrose]

NPR is my JAM!  I love it so much!!!!

GIRL!  Me too!  I'm hoping to take some audio classes in grad school because I would KILL to do a story for NPR.  Or just, y'know.. report for NPR.  Dream job- write longform pieces on politics/national security for NPR's Magazine (if NPR had a magazine... I can keep dreaming..), but I can settle for their blog and record long pieces.  :blush:

 

[puppymomofthree]

@@tulosai  I found how you can find it and cut and paste it into a new one!  Go to your profile and click on Topics and scroll down--your trade list contents are listed on there, you should be able to copy and paste them into a new thread!  Hope this helps!  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />  :luv:

 

[meaganola]

Totally off topic but my trade list has vanished from the site, I feel so lost and disappointed. it took me hours to compile that thing :wacko:

@@tulosai I think I just accidentally deleted this instead of replying to this! Still getting used to my new buttons. ANYWAY. If you happen to have email from the forum that has a link to your trade list, it might still be here but just really, *really* hard to find. I dug around in my email for about twenty minutes the other day and finally found a link that took me to my list!

 

[tulosai]

Thanks girls! I actually figured out how to find the cached page through google and sorted it out that way, but still, so frustrating! I appreciate the support.

 

[zadidoll]

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?

Unfortunately, we lost the ability to mass PM a group with the new site.

 

[chelsealynn]

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

Good luck!

 

[chaostheory]

Can someone post the rules for those who haven't participated? I think I read somewhere that there were parameters-rules on who could/couldn't sign up, how much you spend, how it works, etc, etc. Thanks!

 

[tulosai]

Can someone post the rules for those who haven't participated? I think I read somewhere that there were parameters-rules on who could/couldn't sign up, how much you spend, how it works, etc, etc. Thanks!

I believe the only people eligible to sign up are those who did secret santa OR secret santa nails 2013.  I believe the spending minimum is the same as for Secret Santa 2013, so $25. How it works is basically just that you sign up if eligible and will be given someone to stalk/shop for, and then you mail them their gift by the deadline.

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Anyone feel free to correct me if I am mistaken!

 

[Sunflowercake]

hello everyone. Just got done signing up after just starting to figure out the new profile. i love that I can use this computer again at work to chcek in breaks and do quick posts now, yay! i had issues with that ove rthe last months.

Anyhow, super excited for this gift exchange and can't wait to find out who my giftee is and go shopping. I like that we have a bit more time this year. A question I have is: for Secret Santa we all were able to do these lists and attach them to the signature. How do I do this now?

 

[chaostheory]

Signed up!

(out of excitement before I read the requirements. I didn't participate in the 2013 Secret Santa, but I've been here for a couple months and have been trying to find a place with secret swapping.)

@@zadidoll can you clarify the requirements, since they are not on this sign up thread (which is where i would think to find this) so those of us who didn't participate in 2013 Secret Santa/new-ish to MuT can know if we're eligible before we let ourselves get too hopeful? Thanks!

 

[nolongeravaliable15]

@@zadidoll can you clarify the requirements, since they are not on this sign up thread (which is where i would think to find this) so those of us who didn't participate in 2013 Secret Santa/new-ish to MuT can know if we're eligible before we let ourselves get too hopeful? Thanks!

@  I believe the rules stayed the same as the SS santa 2013, however you are not allowed to paticipate in the summer exchange unless you did secret santa or secret santa nails. Also i moved your posts here since @ didn't want any discussion over on the other thread. 

 

[tacehtpuekam]

@@zadidoll can you clarify the requirements, since they are not on this sign up thread (which is where i would think to find this) so those of us who didn't participate in 2013 Secret Santa/new-ish to MuT can know if we're eligible before we let ourselves get too hopeful? Thanks!

The Summer version is just for those who participated in a 2013 Secret Santa. This is sort of an extra thing we wanted to do & we're trying to make it as easy on @ as possible since she was kind enough to organize. I'll see if I can add the requirements to the first post so there's no confusion. 

You will probably be eligible for this year's actual 2014 Secret Santa though, so definitely keep on eye on the Secret Santa area for more info.  /emoticons/[email protected] 2x" width="20" height="20" />

 

[tacehtpuekam]

@ I edited your initial post on the sign-ups thread to include a little note about the requirements.