Aka Friday 7th December 2018
It’s Interview Day today…
…didn’t get much sleep last night…felt a little nauseous in
the morning and had a little bit of and upset tummy…and now I’m seeing that
there are delays on the Circle and Distract tube lines, which I was aiming to
use to get to the interview!...
…well the train and tube lines were fine, and I didn’t give
out a handout, as I spotted a typo on the journey up, I’d used ‘know’ instead
of ‘known’...I think that the interview went okay, not great, not terrible, but
just okay, fair to middling.
I didn’t do well on the presentation, I only got two thirds
of the way through before the five minutes were up. I think that was because I
was taking it from the cue cards and rambling a tad, rather than reading the
script version…after that the interview was question based and I think I gave
ok answers to most of the panel’s questions.
The panel took notes, but I’m not sure how the amount of
notes taken equates to how well the interview went. I tried not to focus on
that as it kinda distracted me, I’d be thinking about what to say and then get distracted
by wondering what was being written, if enough was being written or if too much
was being written!
I think there was good body language and I don’t recall
being asked to elaborate on too many of my responses. Although the last question,
which I can’t quite remember now (seven hours on the interview has taken on a
kinda hazy, dreamy feel and all I can focus on are my mistakes – taking too
long on the presentation, fumbling over my words on occasion, etc.), included a
word I didn’t know, so I tried to infer want the question was asking and kinda
fumbled my way to an answer, but I’m not sure if it worked. No-one said that
the answer had nothing to do with the question, so maybe I did okay on it?...two main lessons learnt, don't use cue cards, unless I really know the subject area, stick to a script and practice giving the talk to real people, not just reading it to one's self, to make sure that it works and if I don't know a word, just admit and ask!...and
then it was over and I went home…
…but not before picking up this week’s New Comic Book Day dazzlers:
…and Geoff Dyer’s ‘Broadsword Calling Danny Boy’, described
as “Geoff Dyer’s tribute to the film [Where Eagles Dare] he has loved since
childhood: a scene-by-scene analysis taking us from its snowy, Teutonic opening
credits to its vertigo-inducing climax”. And I would describe it as a commentary
track in book form, although it doesn’t focus on film making on on-set details
(or at least so far, I’m only up to page 50), rather it focuses on the poetry of
the visuals and the characters, e.g. noting how Major Burton’s Smith seems to
only talk in orders. So far, it’s been a great read. 9/10
...and I got the new Lego Star Wars magazine, which comes with a mini Lego Star Destroyer:
…I also spent the best part of half an hour on the phone to
Barclay Card, as the contactless payment function on my card wasn’t working, a
half an hour just to get a new card put on the post…
…and I did the G2 Crossword:
…which went a tad better than Thursday’s, with only having
to cheat on a sixth of the clues (four out of 24), today the answers did flow,
even when I didn’t know the answer from the clue I could get it from the letters
that the answer shared with other answers (like ‘French Cricket’ from ‘children’s
game with bat and tennis ball). And I learnt that an ‘aileron’ is an ‘aircraft’s
wing foil that controls lateral motion’ and that ‘hacienda’ means a ‘large Spanish
estate’, and not a large villa (or nightclub 😊).
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