honoumiko

I think I have realized something.

You will almost always complain about a conductor. No matter who they are, they will almost always piss you off. (There are exceptions. FFS I miss Dan Perkins. Honest to God the best conductor I've ever had.)

And then you get someone that's worse, and you want the old conductor back.

Seriously, I cannot stand this guy. I tried to ignore it, but he is SO condescending and he yells at us for slowing down, but he is RUSHING. And he'll slow down, and stop us, he is not clear, and basically he keeps doing everything differently every single time we go through something, so we have to adjust what we're trying to fix in the first place. He'll be like "You know, we've gone over this so many times. You're not in tempo. Let's do it again, if we can." And then he'll take it at a different tempo, so we have no idea where we're going.

Oh, and I haven't gotten paid; he says I should have by now. But I have not.

...In any case, at one point he said "If you could just get that L a little more forward... that L is too far in the back of your throat."

....Breathe deeply, Stephanie, don't laugh, no one will know why the fuck that is so funny.

...Not as bad as the time in studio class when my teacher was coaching another student and said "the word "light" just sounds like "ight," you need to be like LLLLLLIGHT, llllight. You need more L in that light."

I love diction.

Just realized, I made this last week and never actually posted it on the eljay.

uhm, icon.

I love this kind of humor so much.

I just got this email from my boss. I don't know whether to be scared or laugh.

Dear Student Assistants,

I have been seeing some disturbing mistakes recently.



1. Interlibrary loans in the Hopkins courier bin. NO! Interlibrary loans come from outside the Hopkins system. They have book straps on them indicating the source of the item. Today I found a book from the University of Nebraska in the Hopkins courier bin. It would have gone up to Eisenhower and MAYBE come back. Or else we would have lost it and had to pay for it. Someone did this over the weekend, and you know who you are. NEVER put an interlibrary loan item in the courier bin. If you can’t tell the difference between a Hopkins book and an Interlibrary Loan, please leave it on my desk or stop working here. Serious.



2. Library items on the hold shelf need to be checked out. Two books from Eisenhower came here on Friday. They were picked up by their requesters, but they were not checked out. Now they are AWOL. Never allow a book to go without being able to tell the borrower when it is due. Please know the difference between the hold shelf and the interlibrary loan shelf. If you can’t tell the difference, please ask for help or stop working here. Serious.



3. I discovered two Eisenhower books with transit slips in them in the blue bin to the right of the courier bin. The blue bin has a sign on it “Student Assistants! No!” Is this confusing? The “No!” means “stay out”. This is not your territory. All Hopkins transit items go in the Hopkins courier bin to the left of the blue bin. All items should have the transit slips in them with the three-letter symbol for the Hopkins library, not “Eisenhower Library” on them. You know who you are. If you can’t tell the difference between the courier bin and the blue bin, please ask for help or stop working here. If you can’t fill out a transit slip properly, please ask for help or stop working here. Serious.



Betsy

Y SO SERIOUS

Cherish it well.

Love,
Stephanie

preview image SUCKS; for some reason it's not giving me what I set it as

EDIT: Never mind the preview image is back to what I wanted it to be.