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Geoff Jones
Jedi Master Film Handler

Posts: 579
From: Broomfield, CO, USA
Registered: Feb 2006

posted 02-21-2009 09:30 AM

Sleep. I really suck at it. I need two empty spaces right next to each other in order to successfully sleep. And I usually get up once or twice to pee.

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Galen Murphy-Fahlgren
Master Film Handler

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From: Canton, MI, USA
Registered: Oct 2007

posted 02-21-2009 01:54 PM

School. If I were better at that, most of my other problems would solve themselves. I'm not bad at learning, I'm quite good at it, but I'm terrible at school.

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Joshua Waaland
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From: Cleveland, Ohio
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posted 02-21-2009 03:56 PM

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Speaking in public and/or striking up conversations with strangers. My wife is great at both and I suck at both. To me the two things are similar and basically caused by shyness, so I wish I wasn't so shy. (It cost me a lot of fun times with girls when I was younger, too!)

Story of my life, Mike. I'm in the same situation you are. My wife is a social butterfly and I am a social clam. I can turn it on when I am having a good day and feel confident but I have never liked public speaking. One time in high school we were doing speeches in English class. I was supposed to be the next person to speak the next day in class so I skipped. I ended up with detention but thought it was worth it. Then when I got to class the following day, my teacher had spent the previous day talking through the whole class period so it was still my turn to speak. I had told him weeks before that I was deathly afraid of it but he tried to make me do it anyways. I told him I would take the F instead of speaking so instead he made the class turn their heads away and let me speak from my seat. I think the embarassment of that situation was worse than just speaking in front of the class. [puke]

The last few years I have been in sales at work so public speaking is an everyday thing. Somehow it's not nearly as bad because there are impromptu teaching situations where I am talking to a group of operators in a shop teaching them how to run our equipment. I know our equipment better than they do so I am more confident. I am not trying to follow some script and make sure I get in a twenty minute long speech like most speech classes require and have everyone just staring at me. In these settings it is an interactive experience so the people want to learn about what you are telling them and they are asking lots of questions.

One day I went to the NASA here in Cleveland to sell them a piece of equipment and quickly found myself in a meeting room with 30 NASA engineers asking me questions and wanting me to present my equipment to them. I was sweating bullets that day! [Frown]

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Tony Bandiera Jr
Film God

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From: Moreland Idaho
Registered: Apr 2004

posted 02-21-2009 08:58 PM

quote: Joshua Waaland
...found myself in a meeting room with 30 NASA engineers asking me questions and wanting me to present my equipment to them.

If I had 30 people wanting me to present my equipment to them I'd be scared too. [Smile]

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Dwayne Benallie
Film Handler

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From: tempe, Arizona / USA
Registered: Aug 2007

posted 02-22-2009 12:03 AM

Time Travel...

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Matt Fields
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From: Ohio, United States
Registered: Jun 2005

posted 02-22-2009 07:09 AM

I've always wanted to be a good singer.

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Joshua Waaland
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From: Cleveland, Ohio
Registered: Dec 1999

posted 02-22-2009 11:13 AM

quote: Tony Bandiera Jr
If I had 30 people wanting me to present my equipment to them I'd be scared too.

That's just wrong. [Wink]

It was very witty though. [thumbsup]

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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 02-23-2009 12:10 PM

Morse code and sign language. Can someone tell me is sign language universal or do the signs change as the language changes?

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Robert E. Allen
Phenomenal Film Handler

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From: Checotah, Oklahoma
Registered: Jul 2002

posted 02-23-2009 11:13 PM

quote: Chad Souder
Morse code and sign language. Can someone tell me is sign language universal or do the signs change as the language changes?

As far as I know in this country there are two sign languages, one for words and one for letters of the alphabet. That being the case I would assume it varies from country to country (at least for the alphabet).

I see you're from Waterloo. FWIW in '06 I was managing the Sunset in Sumner.

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Chad Souder
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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
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posted 02-24-2009 10:39 AM

So would the letters be signed the same throughout all languages that use the Roman alphabet?

Robert - I saw some of your posts earlier about spending time in Iowa. I've never been to the Sunset, although I've had a couple of its former employees apply when they went to school at UNI.

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Mike Blakesley
Film God

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From: Forsyth, Montana
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posted 02-24-2009 02:50 PM

The last three posts should be a new thread. They are distracting from the very good topic at hand.

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Scott D. Neff
Theatre Dork

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From: San Francisco, CA
Registered: Oct 1999

posted 02-24-2009 06:12 PM

I need to be better at saving money.

If I had to pick a superficial second, it'd be to mind my appearance, no matter how much I don't feel like brushing my hair/shaving. There's no excuse to be dumpy if you can help it.

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Chad Souder
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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
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posted 02-25-2009 01:14 PM

quote: Mike Blakesley
The last three posts should be a new thread. They are distracting from the very good topic at hand.

Thanks, thread police! How is me listing sign language and morse code as things I want to get better at distracting to the topic at hand again? That was what I wrote three posts before yours.

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Tim Reed
Better Projection Pays

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From: Northampton, PA
Registered: Sep 1999

posted 02-26-2009 07:22 PM

quote: Chad Souder
Morse code

Start here. You WILL increase your speed!

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Chad Souder
Jedi Master Film Handler

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From: Waterloo, IA, USA
Registered: Feb 2000

posted 02-27-2009 01:18 PM

Thanks Tim!

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