Stupid Writer's Block

Every day I think about how I should attempt to update my VoxWorld on my new happenings, but every time I sit down to write it out, everything tries rushing out all at once. OR, I get distracted by TV and forget what I was trying to let out. Now that I said that, I decided to mute TV so it's not completely distracting... but my ADD always seems to find a way to prevail so we'll see how this goes.

I started writing a post on Monday or Tuesday about my previous week, including my birthday celebration at the bar/club where I promote. I even stayed up late for the sole purpose of working on it... but I got towards the end of it and realized it was nothing but a bunch of drivel that no one would even care about. I'm half contemplating just going on tangents to get things off my chest (since at times I feel I don't have anyone to express my feelings to... or I've spent so much time bitching to the few people willing to listen that I don't want to burden them with my stupid rants anymore) and just make the posts private, leaving anything that's actually digestible or worthwhile as a public post. Hell, I'm already debating doing that with this post (making it private that is). But, for the sake of people knowing I'm alive, I guess I'll leave it public.

Last night at Kazmos was pretty blah. We were doing another all house music night (which has proven successful in the past) but not too many people showed. Two of the DJs did some pre-drinking at a bar down the street because they have cheap tall-boy PBRs and came in pretty wasted already. They barely showed up in time for when the first guy was supposed to start heh. Anyway, their mixing was pretty poor... usually they're pretty righteous (LOL, I said righteous), but not last night. And, to top it off, they were red-lining the sound levels on my mixer. Not only is it bad for my mixer, it's bad for the house system... the last thing I need is the owner of the place telling us off because some of the DJs we booked blew the system.

I ended up going on last, about 12:30 and played till close - that gave me a little under an hour since we usually try ushering people out the door by 1:30. I had no complaints about this because I had a long list of things I needed to get done early at work tomorrow, plus I had a phone interview and didn't want to be completely and utterly mentally exhausted for it from being out all night (more about the interview later). My mixing during the set wasn't 100% perfect, but I think my track selection/set programming was spot on. I was pretty damn happy with it... too bad there weren't many people there at that point to hear it, including the other DJs that I booked. You'd think they'd stick around long enough to hear what *I* have to offer.

So, first thing this morning I get the things done that I needed to get done before noon... amazingly enough. Then I took some invoices I needed paid and got yelled at by someone in our accounting department. I can't say that it wasn't completely warranted, because it was, but it was just rough going through that after how hard I busted my ass to get all the invoices ready for her. The reason she was bitching was because they were invoices that HAD to be paid, and I should've gotten them taken care of sooner... I just don't seem to have much time to get things like that done early, but then again if I stopped jackin' around on the net at work I probably could. I wrapped up all of that just in time to head off to my car for my phone interview. I parked my car on a street and waited for the interviewer to call, only to discover that the street I was parked on wasn't conducive to talking with all the traffic. I was in the process of moving my car to a better spot when the interviewer started ringing, so I rushed into the spot, parked and answered. (She called me about 15-20 min after I was told she was going to call.. not sure if that was a blessing in disguise or if I should be like wtf?!)

To backtrack a little bit, I was contacted by an independent recruiter last week. He evidently found my profile on a website for a publisher that makes magazines specifically tailored to advertisers (pubs that specialize in advertising news and happenings). After playing a little email/phone tag, we finally caught up on Monday, and on Tuesday night he let me know that an agency in Las Vegas was interested in chatting with me. That's who was calling me today. The interview got off to an okay start, even though Kim (the interviewer) didn't sound real gung-ho about it all. I feel my answers were pretty good... but I wish she'd delved deeper with her questioning. As I was countering with some of my own questions to her and she was replying, my wonderful, marvelous phone decided to drop the call. I immediately call her back and apologize for my phone and we resumed our discussion. She seemed at least a little peeved about it, which kind of surprises me... but oh well. At the end of the conversation she asked me to send her a sample of my writing. So, as soon as I got back to the office, I found a few work-related writing samples, zipped them up, and sent them over to her with a 'thank you for the interview' as well as an additional apology for dropping the call, saying I should've been more mindful of my service when I answered. I guess only time will tell what happens. Vegas isn't exactly a place I've thought about living (I've never even BEEN there), but I figured "why keep myself in a teeny consideration box for new jobs."

Along with the work writing samples, I also sent her a bio I wrote up (that may or may not have been tweaked by our copywriters and then included) for a Request-For-Proposal booklet we were putting together for a new business pitch. I figured I'd share it with anyone that was dumb enough to read this far:

I was born in Council Bluffs, and even though I celebrated my first four birthdays in four different states and lived in Belgium for six years, I will always be a small-town boy at heart. I keep this small community mentality in mind when working with vendors to maintain a benevolent relationship with them on behalf of K\H clients.

After interning with K\H in Account Service, I was whisked away into the world of media in 2005 to assist with media planning and buying on the Colorado Lottery, the Deadwood Chamber of Commerce, the Denver Metro CVB, the Denver Newspaper Agency, Fiserv ISS and the Globus Family of Brands.

I started assisting with the Pinnacle Bancorp account when we began handling some of their media in the Fall of 2005, and as the account has grown, so have I. After starting with media planning and buying in Nebraska and Colorado, we now handle media for Pinnacle Bancorp in Wyoming, Texas, Kansas, Missouri and New Mexico as well. I work on planning and buying in each Pinnacle market, specializing in newspaper and rural market radio and cable.

I relate back to my Midwestern roots when constructing plans to connect with rural market consumers but also have the knowledge to reach large-market targets. An internet junkie at heart, my "King of Google" crown helps me to delve deep into new markets and learn as much as possible about them to ensure plan effectiveness.

I demonstrated my buying capabilities while implementing Pinnacle Bank's first Greater Nebraska cable buy to cover their rural market branches. I also handle radio buying for unmeasured markets in Nebraska and Wyoming. Additionally, my magic in Excel helps not only to provide back up to my small market insights, but it also helps track and manage over 90 print publications in 6 states.

I told her I included it so they could see a more fun side to my writing and also see information that isn't easily included in a resume. Keep your fingers crossed for me, I'm not quite sure how I'd handle crashing and burning on another interview. The earliest I will hear something will be next week since Kim and her boss are both out of the office tomorrow (Friday).