The interview only lasted 5 minutes. The woman is doing a story on the new trend in Skype interviews for first rounds of education job hunting. Mostly she wanted to know if it went well or badly (well), if I had any technical difficulties (no), and why my opinion of it was (way better than phone). So that was interesting.
The rest of my day, and most of this week, has been spend on the back deck alternating between working on Enid, and working through Avid tutorials on Lynda.com. I broke down and paid for a year of premium membership. If I'm going to be mostly unemployed I should use the time to become expert in all the relevant things. And I'm teaching Avid this fall at Fitchburg, so that's first up. As I tell my students, you need to know all three well enough to talk your way into a job, and then cram cram cram until you're actually as good as you need to be. I had 3 different professors cover Avid at BU and none of them were good at software instruction. So I never used it well, so I never liked it, so I used it as rarely as I could get away with, and now here we are. I'm starting at the basics even though most of what she's saying I already know just so that I'm sure I don't miss anything.
And have some obligatory sunset photos. Rock Harbor is open again, but the tide was fairly high so we couldn't go out and run. And OH MY GOD WAS IT BUGGY! So there's far fewer photos to bore you with than there might have been. Also I'm still working on training Louis. He knows sit and stay, but if I get down on his level to take a picture of him he will do neither. Lots of people came out for the show. And there was a guy playing steel drum, which was kind of fun.
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| A small boat approaches Rock Harbor |
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| A bigger boat approaches Rock Harbor |
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| Gathering for the daily show |
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| My outdoor office. There's an outlet just inside the door that reaches. I can spend all day here. |
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