In this episode of Are You Mad at Me?, Vickie and Josh dive into the emotional rollercoaster artists face during the creative process.
The Challenges of Being an Adult in College
00:03:23 Going back to college
Josh is in his final semester of a graphic design program.
As a 42 year old back in school it’s hard to wrap your head around these kids
who weren’t alive when 9/11 happened. Josh, a USAF veteran had just graduated
from tech school and arrived at his first duty station on September 8th,
2001. Such a pivotal and massive event in history that his classmates don’t
even remember.
Vickie recalls being in university and pregnant and taking a
biology class during the day and living out a pregnancy classified as advanced
maternal age in her regular life.
When you have too much personality for an office
job
00:07:16
Temp work
As a younger person Vickie attended secretarial school and
there were women in their 50s in the class. After graduation Vickie worked as a
temp at 40 or 50 different companies who agreed she had too much personality or
perhaps just the wrong one to succeed. There were days she had to write down on
a piece of paper where she was that day so she would say the correct name
answering phones.
How do you get fired from a volunteer job? Stay tuned.
We'll tell you.
00:13:02
Rogers Television
There was one highlight working a temp job at a tv station.
The station manager had been off on leave and when she returned took an instant
dislike to Vickie and that story is in Vickie’s second book How to Fail at Documentary Filmmaking. It involves clown shoes.
More education from a random Instagram post
00:19:15
Constructive Interference
The gang discusses constructive interference. Vickie saw an
Instagram post related to the Law of Attraction and it says that if you're
going along at a frequency thinking a certain way and feeling a certain way the
frequency is broadcasting outward. If you meet somebody on that same wavelength
the power of that frequency actually doubles. But somebody who's on a different
frequency actually cancels out your energy. It has zero power. That’s
destructive interference.
Vickie compares it to meeting musicians that she doesn’t
click with whereas others make her feel like there’s a choir behind her singing
in perfect harmony.
Well if I do it for you, I'll have to do it for everybody
00:24:13
University Psychology
Vickie talks about graduating from the same university as
Stephen King where she had a stillborn baby (Joe Grayson was born in 2013 and
is the subject of Vickie’s first book For the Grace of Joe) during one of her
final semesters and missed an exam and the professor told her he couldn’t let
her rewrite because he’d have to do it for everyone. That’s when she switched
majors to Communication and left Psychology behind at least at that institution
and minored in film and sports marketing.
00:26:47
Community Television Network
Working in community television opened doors in hockey at
the NHL, AHL and ECHL level as a journalist and camera operator.
00:34:46
Skating or Ice Skating
A discussion ensues about calling hockey ice hockey and the
national differences in what people consider skating.
00:38:43
Salvation Army in the mall
There’s a discussion about the Salvation Army being banned
from a local mall and some social media uproar threatening to boycott the
Avalon Mall as a result.
Vickie talks about receiving help from the Kettle campaign
and writing an article about it for CBC that went viral and resulted in a whole
lot of feedback and a stand up comedy set.
Public transit is so much fun
00:42:56
Downtown St. John's and Metrobus
There’s a discussion about the public transit website having
next to nothing in useful information and Google maps is far superior and gives
users options and up to date routing and solutions.
If you're just here for the beagles
00:51:10
Calm Beagles
If you want to see some peaceful beagles keeping us company
this is the link directly to that for this episode.
Headlining baby!
00:52:16
Stand Up Gig
Vickie has a couple comedy shows in December and one of them
she is headlining. She’s planning some holiday themed bits and considers
posting a joke every day for the 12 days of Christmas.
Are you really an author if you self published?
The hosts question the validity of producing a show and
naming yourself a headliner as they have previously done. Is this similar to
self publishing? Is it really published if you did it yourself? Like are you
really an author if you self published a book?
00:53:15
Self Publishing World
00:58:15
Manuscript Editing
00:59:40
Self Publishing Advantages
01:00:53
Self Publishing 101
01:07:36
Shopify Site
01:12:01
Documentary Filmmaking
Don't read the comments!!!!!!
01:14:14
CBC Article
Vickie recalls a time when she wrote an article for CBC
about a personal experience and an editor wanted to change the tone and
language in the piece essentially changing the voice of the writer.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/vickie-morgan-newfoundland-plan-1.4943214
This experience resulted in a comedy bit.
Don't email me at home if you don't want me to reply
01:22:44
Fiddle Instructor
Vickie recalls another experience where she probably should
not have replied to a saucy student. Results in another standup comedy bit
Let's call her Laura because that's her name
01:37:06
Election Day
Turns out other people had a problem with ‘let’s call her
Laura’
Our new website is up and running!
01:41:03
SelfPublishedNL.com
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