TO MOLLIFY LINGJACKSON OVERDRIVEBERT WHO IS THE SQUEAKY DESERT FIEND, POST ON THIS THREAD AND ONE OF YOUR FRIENDLY ITR MODS WILL TELL YOU THAT YOU ARE WICKED AWESOME, AND POSSIBLY OFFER AN EFFUSIVE ST

hmm now roommate and weekend guest are home and talking and they're not even being that loud but i can hear them and it's bugging me a tiny bit so maybe i will take that break now and watch last night's LOST and caffeinate some more and then resume?

sorry, liveblogging my life here.

No problem! I'm with you. I'm saving last night's LOST for tomorrow or Sunday (probably...). I also have Fido, which looks completely bizarre.

I am now DONE with my workout; on to studying/drinking/eating bars/tv watching.

Also, the right side of my neck *always* hurts. I suspect it is a combination of how I hold my head while reading/at the computer and toting giant books around in a bag over my right shoulder.

I KNOW YOU ARE FASCINATED

oh god my left shoulder is completely fuxored from the past 9 months of toting.

i actually kept working for a min, but now i'm not so sure again.

actually, i AM fascinated. anything that is not about reporting on sales trends making up figures because i don't actually have them (nb: this is not my fault, the organization simply does not keep them) is really interesting!

distraction-seeking also led me to create this graph for the ask dr. freud poll.

i have a pdf file of a logo for a t-shirt that i want to make bigger, but it keeps telling me i can't save changes. any ideas how i do this?

hah ask nick?

he's asleep, damn him.

when did the thread title change to "DESERT FIEND"???

ages ago! dude you are behind the times.

WHAT YEAR ARE WE IN

don't disturb him, when he wakes he will need all that energy for graphic designing (i hope!)

that was an xpost

hey look it's my current worldview!
http://xs227.xs.to/xs227/08196/img00269331.jpg

KILL ME

;_;

tehresa you must escape to a better place

so many papers and post-its. at least it was really shitty out today so i don't feel as bad about being stuck in this hellhole.

A place that involves sleeping xp

Did you know that you can have dialysis through your abdominal wall, using the peritoneal membrane as the dialysing membrane? I thought I had hallucinated that during lecture, but apparently it was not just a strange waking dream.

i go to work now, hope my boss isn't an asshole tonight. feeling v v anxious ;_;

good luck!

sara, that is fascinating (not sarcastic)

It sounds kind of crazy to me, but apparently about 10% of dialysis is done that way. I am going to read about kidney transplants next. I'm kind of excited about that since a friend of mine actually had one ten years ago.

RR - good luck tonight! Sending you good thoughts...

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/44/028_8686~Kissing-the-War-Goodbye-Posters.jpg

John, honey, back away from the computer and get K. to hold your hand or something. You'll feel better and we won't worry about you that way.

p.s. John, I hope you are not really wearing that kind of hat.

i didn't know till today that the thread title has japanese, and not just a bunch of question marks. ditto catsup's name.

tehresa thanks for the pie chart over on freud

procrastination is my middle name ;)

oh this is sucking so much rrrrggggggghhhhh

awww. we are all having SO MUCH FUN tonight!

can someone tell me the difference between "audience profile" and "customer profile"? i don't get this:

III. Situation Analysis
Sales Trends
Audience Profile
Operational Challenges
Conclusion

V. Customer Profile
Demographic and Psychographic Information
Target Audience Member Profile

doesn't everything in the first part of V. go into audience profile? why would you include it twice?

is Audience a subset of Customer? or maybe it's just a badly written assignment?

i think customer is more a subset of audience, and yes, it is a horribly written assignment bc this guy is an idiot (see me going out for drinks after 45 min phone call w/ him because he made me so mad), but you can't really vary from it because he has no mind for creativity, only carbon copies of what he thinks you should do.

Oh, I really don't get your assignment, tehresa.

John, GO TO BED. Pack more tomorrow.

I'm going to go to bed myself shortly. Words in textbooks no longer making sense!

So yeah, good night all.

(And if you're still up doing homework, tehresa, give yourself a break and go to bed finally!)

Is this for arts admin MA? Hmm, some examples of customer not same as audience could be:

Parents buying tickets etc. for their kids
Gift tickets generally
Institutional block-buys of any kind, esp. field trips, charity nights - the audience is say a bunch of people with MS while the customer is the person on the MS society who greenlights an outing. You can be part of the audience before joining the customer base.

Audience is more likely the place to focus on access issues, eg, getting people to the point where they want to be spectators. Also 'customer' implies a transactive relationship while audience implies aesthetics/appreciation so you're looking at stuff like Development's relationship with donors and who buys the cheap seats and how to make it verrry easy for people to get tickets to stuff on top of all that.

so work was not so bad: my boss apologised without apologising... "look i had a think about what you said, and i understand where you were coming from, and i didn't mean what i said in a negative way, but i'm not apologising'.

Audience is more likely the place to focus on access issues, eg, getting people to the point where they want to be spectators. Also 'customer' implies a transactive relationship while audience implies aesthetics/appreciation so you're looking at stuff like Development's relationship with donors and who buys the cheap seats and how to make it verrry easy for people to get tickets to stuff on top of all that.

there is also a whole section devoted to audience development where access issues will be discussed, as well as a market research section. actually thikning about what you've said, audience profile could possible be '10% subscribers, 10% group sales, etc.' which is just fanstastic since i don't have those figures... but thanks for the idea!

heh i am making them upeducated guesses now.

ruby, you are a much bigger person than i!

hahaha don't forget COMMUNITIES!

my watch officer left a voicemail last night asking me why and how we got so blasted. it made me feel better.

cause last night peoples got FUCKED UP

i dont know or want to know what a watch officer is but that sounds like incredibly good news as long as you subtly let him know it was his fault xp

1. boss had to be escorted, so drunk he could not walk to his car (wife drove)
2. ex-dev chief, wife, and our missouri telecommuter flown in for the week were staggered (did jager shots with them myself) and ppl at my table requested I follow them out to ensure they were properly put inside a taxicab
3. see above about voicemail because ha ha WHOOPSIE DAISY yeah I don't really remember how I got home either

I can't get the phrase DRUNKITY DRUNKO the DRUNKTRON DRINKER out of my head. I'm also really impressed with myself to be awake at noon.

Tom, YOU had quite a night last night!!!

RR, wow, your boss.

tehresa - glad you are making some progress (?)

suzy - you rock! (hmmmmm, what do you know about glomerular filtration rates...?)

i am pretending to make progress, though really not that much. i just folded 'audience profile' into 'sales trends' and called it 'sales trends and audience breakdown' a very brief guess-analysis and then all the demo and psycho stuff will go into customer profile.

totally jealous of tom's night.

so i went out drinking w. coworkers, such as they are, last night. it was very nice and all, but i really hate being 'new guy' and having to explain my sordid and somewhat depressing past - and my constant evasions really draw more attention than anything else - so it was very meh.