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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
Resume
As you may or may not know, I've been looking for a job, preferably in the art/photography/graphic design area. So, I thought I'd put my resume on my blog. Here it is...
Rebecca Box
P.O. Box 1831
Brentwood, TN 37025-1831
rebeccabox@mac.com
Education:
-- Brentwood High School - 1997-2001
4 years of marching band, including two years of being drum major.
Received the John Phillips Sousa Award of Excellence
Received the Tennessee Honors Diploma
-- Middle Tennessee State University - 2001-2006
Graduated with a degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Photography
and a minor in Art
Resident Assistant from 2005-2006
Work Experience:
-- Current
Internship with Arlund Photography (www.arlundphoto.com)
Part-time photographer for Out of the Box Photography (www.outoftheboxphotography.com) (www.ronboxphoto.com)
Shift manager at Quizno's Subs
-- Past
Resident Assistant for Middle Tennessee State University Housing - August 2005 - May 2006
The Picture People - December 2002 - January 2005
Skills:
-- Extensive Mac and a PC experience
Photoshop
Microsoft Word
Excel
-- Multimedia graphic design
Silkscreening, book-making
Sketching (graphite and pen and ink)
Painting, collaging
Adobe Photoshop, Power Point
--Photography experience
Film-based and digital cameras
Darkroom and digital processing (Adobe Photoshop)
Historic processing
Large (8x10) and medium (Hasselblad) format cameras
Studio-lighting
Environmental portraits, commercial, editorial, and black and white photography
Color slide film, color processing
-- Leadership
Drum major, resident assistant, and shift manager at Quizno's
-- Communication
Excellent people skills
Customer rapport
Energetic public speaking skills
Memberships and Affiliations:
-- TuneTown Show Chorus
International bound, 1st place Sweet Adelines chorus
-- Last Minute Quartet
5th place International Barbershop quartet
-- Brentwood Camera Club
*References available upon request
Rebecca Box
P.O. Box 1831
Brentwood, TN 37025-1831
rebeccabox@mac.com
Education:
-- Brentwood High School - 1997-2001
4 years of marching band, including two years of being drum major.
Received the John Phillips Sousa Award of Excellence
Received the Tennessee Honors Diploma
-- Middle Tennessee State University - 2001-2006
Graduated with a degree in Mass Communications with a concentration in Photography
and a minor in Art
Resident Assistant from 2005-2006
Work Experience:
-- Current
Internship with Arlund Photography (www.arlundphoto.com)
Part-time photographer for Out of the Box Photography (www.outoftheboxphotography.com) (www.ronboxphoto.com)
Shift manager at Quizno's Subs
-- Past
Resident Assistant for Middle Tennessee State University Housing - August 2005 - May 2006
The Picture People - December 2002 - January 2005
Skills:
-- Extensive Mac and a PC experience
Photoshop
Microsoft Word
Excel
-- Multimedia graphic design
Silkscreening, book-making
Sketching (graphite and pen and ink)
Painting, collaging
Adobe Photoshop, Power Point
--Photography experience
Film-based and digital cameras
Darkroom and digital processing (Adobe Photoshop)
Historic processing
Large (8x10) and medium (Hasselblad) format cameras
Studio-lighting
Environmental portraits, commercial, editorial, and black and white photography
Color slide film, color processing
-- Leadership
Drum major, resident assistant, and shift manager at Quizno's
-- Communication
Excellent people skills
Customer rapport
Energetic public speaking skills
Memberships and Affiliations:
-- TuneTown Show Chorus
International bound, 1st place Sweet Adelines chorus
-- Last Minute Quartet
5th place International Barbershop quartet
-- Brentwood Camera Club
*References available upon request
Monday, August 21, 2006
I missed my blog's anniversary....
...because the chorus was busy winning a competition that day. We won all of the categories we could. The only thing we didn't win was Men's Chorus Overall.
It was an awesome weekend!
It was an awesome weekend!
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
Sunday, August 13, 2006
Peach is good.
Dee and I have started redecorating our kitchen, one wall at a time. We decided way before I moved in (about a year) that we would start with the kitchen. One tiny section was already a peachy color, so we decided to brighten the peach and continue it to the rest of the wall. That's pretty much all we've done so far. The rest of the kitchen will be painted white. For the backsplash and countertops, we plan to get little light blue and white tiles and mosaic them all along that area.
...we also got two fish to match the room.
...we also got two fish to match the room.
Sunday, August 06, 2006
Wow!!
Why do we get so bogged down in our lives? (I'm specifically talking to myself.) Why do we rush around and try to do everything ourselves?
On my way home from church, I did one simple thing. One thing that we should all be doing, and this one incredibly simple thing gave me so much joy because I did it because God said in His word to obey the laws of men.
I drove the speed limit. I don't normally do any excessive speeding, but this time I tried to stay exactly the speed limit.
This may seem very minor to some, but because of everything that God has done for me I think I can do one simple thing, like drive the speed limit. Do you know what I thought about the whole way home? I thought about how incredible, amazing, HUGE, there isn't even a word to describe in full detail how amazing God is. And, I thought about how I'm so unworthy of His mercies, but He still chose me as one of His children anyway. Wow! That blows my mind everytime I think about it. I just want to jump for joy out of sheer happiness!
I had a look around at this world that He created, and thought, "Wow!". Every once in a while, I'll just stop and look. And, everytime He amazes me more and more.
And, that was just one small thing that made me think on Him....
On my way home from church, I did one simple thing. One thing that we should all be doing, and this one incredibly simple thing gave me so much joy because I did it because God said in His word to obey the laws of men.
I drove the speed limit. I don't normally do any excessive speeding, but this time I tried to stay exactly the speed limit.
This may seem very minor to some, but because of everything that God has done for me I think I can do one simple thing, like drive the speed limit. Do you know what I thought about the whole way home? I thought about how incredible, amazing, HUGE, there isn't even a word to describe in full detail how amazing God is. And, I thought about how I'm so unworthy of His mercies, but He still chose me as one of His children anyway. Wow! That blows my mind everytime I think about it. I just want to jump for joy out of sheer happiness!
I had a look around at this world that He created, and thought, "Wow!". Every once in a while, I'll just stop and look. And, everytime He amazes me more and more.
And, that was just one small thing that made me think on Him....
Friday, August 04, 2006
"Thank you dear Lord for my left shoe"
Contest Day
Our morning was very relaxing. We got up, and since the only thing we had was cheese and crackers to eat, we grabbed ourselves a few of those. (I had forgotten to mention that that was the only thing, minus a barbeque joint, that we ate all weekend. I don't think I'll ever look at a packaged cheese and cracker the same again.)
Anyway, we did some warming up, so that we could be prepared for that evening. Everybody showered and got ready to go over to the college so we could warm up over there and get our costumes and make up on.
We had decided that it would be best if we were ready about an hour before we needed to actually leave. Who knows why we decided this, but I sure glad we did because the story that follows will knock your shoe off.
Everyone was ready. Dee had her suit and shoes on, Meagan had her suit and shoes on, I had my suit and shoes on, and Sherida had her suit and only one shoe in her hand. You'd think in a moment like that you would panic a little. We didn't really. We looked everywhere in that dorm room and everytime we counted we came up with seven. Seven shoes just won't do. We almost decided to go out onstage barefoot, but then thought that probably wasn't a very good idea. With about 50 minutes before we had to be in our "pattern" we dropped Dee off at our hotel to look for the divergant shoe and then the rest of use drove to Payless.
Let's recap. Dee, Meagan, Sherida and I all had on blue skirt suits with a silver sparkly top. Our hair was poofed out to perfection and we had on more make up than any of would ever dream of wearing in public. Ok, let's continue...
So, Jen, Meagan, Sherida, and I ran into Payless on a frantic shoe search. I can only imagine what those other people in the store must have been thinking. Finding fours pairs of shoes in all of the right sizes was going to be a tough task, but we were totally prepared to destroy that store in search of some shoes. Fortunately, Dee found in the hotel room, hiding, under the bed.
All of a sudden I heard Jen yell, "She got the shoe, she got the shoe!!"
The four of us ran out of that store like we stole something, and went and got Dee and the wayward shoe. On the way back to the campus we heard singing in the backseat.
"Thank you dear Lord for my left shoe..." sang Sherida.
This would be funny if you knew the song "Thank You Dear Lord For Music".
Anyway, we ended up being early for our pattern, which was pretty much a miracle, considering we didn't know our way around San Antonio very well and we only had an hour.
Our set went fabulously. We all felt pretty relaxed, well, as relaxed as one can feel on stage, and when we got off stage we felt good about what we did. Now all we had to do was wait. And, these Sweet Adeline ladies like to draw things out. We went 5th out of 18 or so and then we had to wait on the judges to tally up all the scores and then they had to thank the judges and their children and their bosses and all of the choruses for being there and all the quartets for doing a great job.
When they finally rolled around to calling out the top 5 we were quite ready. Well, folks, I just like to thank you for sitting here and reading this, and I'd like to thank the judges for being there, and I'd like to thank the judges children for being wherever, and I like to thank my boss for letting me off work so I could be there, and I'd like to thank some of those choruses who listened to us, and I'd like to thank all of the quartets for competing so that there could be a competition.
Last Minute came in 5th at an international competition, and we got a shiny medal to wear around our necks. It was a fantastic night, and we all slept in our medals, except for Meagan who forgot because she was took a shower and didn't put it back on, but we're not bitter.
The next day we played in a fountain, and then went to watch the chorus competition and the chorus from our area won they're division and came second place over all. It was a very good weekend for Region 23.
On Sunday, we drove back to Nashville and it was the most fun I've had on a road trip in a while, and I can't remember anything of consequence that happened on the way.
13 hours isn't so bad.
Our morning was very relaxing. We got up, and since the only thing we had was cheese and crackers to eat, we grabbed ourselves a few of those. (I had forgotten to mention that that was the only thing, minus a barbeque joint, that we ate all weekend. I don't think I'll ever look at a packaged cheese and cracker the same again.)
Anyway, we did some warming up, so that we could be prepared for that evening. Everybody showered and got ready to go over to the college so we could warm up over there and get our costumes and make up on.
We had decided that it would be best if we were ready about an hour before we needed to actually leave. Who knows why we decided this, but I sure glad we did because the story that follows will knock your shoe off.
Everyone was ready. Dee had her suit and shoes on, Meagan had her suit and shoes on, I had my suit and shoes on, and Sherida had her suit and only one shoe in her hand. You'd think in a moment like that you would panic a little. We didn't really. We looked everywhere in that dorm room and everytime we counted we came up with seven. Seven shoes just won't do. We almost decided to go out onstage barefoot, but then thought that probably wasn't a very good idea. With about 50 minutes before we had to be in our "pattern" we dropped Dee off at our hotel to look for the divergant shoe and then the rest of use drove to Payless.
Let's recap. Dee, Meagan, Sherida and I all had on blue skirt suits with a silver sparkly top. Our hair was poofed out to perfection and we had on more make up than any of would ever dream of wearing in public. Ok, let's continue...
So, Jen, Meagan, Sherida, and I ran into Payless on a frantic shoe search. I can only imagine what those other people in the store must have been thinking. Finding fours pairs of shoes in all of the right sizes was going to be a tough task, but we were totally prepared to destroy that store in search of some shoes. Fortunately, Dee found in the hotel room, hiding, under the bed.
All of a sudden I heard Jen yell, "She got the shoe, she got the shoe!!"
The four of us ran out of that store like we stole something, and went and got Dee and the wayward shoe. On the way back to the campus we heard singing in the backseat.
"Thank you dear Lord for my left shoe..." sang Sherida.
This would be funny if you knew the song "Thank You Dear Lord For Music".
Anyway, we ended up being early for our pattern, which was pretty much a miracle, considering we didn't know our way around San Antonio very well and we only had an hour.
Our set went fabulously. We all felt pretty relaxed, well, as relaxed as one can feel on stage, and when we got off stage we felt good about what we did. Now all we had to do was wait. And, these Sweet Adeline ladies like to draw things out. We went 5th out of 18 or so and then we had to wait on the judges to tally up all the scores and then they had to thank the judges and their children and their bosses and all of the choruses for being there and all the quartets for doing a great job.
When they finally rolled around to calling out the top 5 we were quite ready. Well, folks, I just like to thank you for sitting here and reading this, and I'd like to thank the judges for being there, and I'd like to thank the judges children for being wherever, and I like to thank my boss for letting me off work so I could be there, and I'd like to thank some of those choruses who listened to us, and I'd like to thank all of the quartets for competing so that there could be a competition.
Last Minute came in 5th at an international competition, and we got a shiny medal to wear around our necks. It was a fantastic night, and we all slept in our medals, except for Meagan who forgot because she was took a shower and didn't put it back on, but we're not bitter.
The next day we played in a fountain, and then went to watch the chorus competition and the chorus from our area won they're division and came second place over all. It was a very good weekend for Region 23.
On Sunday, we drove back to Nashville and it was the most fun I've had on a road trip in a while, and I can't remember anything of consequence that happened on the way.
13 hours isn't so bad.
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