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Square PEGgy...doesn't fit in
How many hills must I climb to be noticed, appreciated, regaled in this human society? As a female minority, all obstacles are against me. I’ve been striving but getting knocked down and back all of my life to this point. They say if you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, but, having been here for almost fifty years, I still don’t feel “made” yet, and I don’t know how much more my body, mind or spirit can take.
By RON ANDERSON5 years ago in Journal
Around and around
Remember when as a kid you would spin around in the kitchen in your socks? Maybe you had siblings and would sneak around to scare them as they went to their room. No? Just me? Well that was what I did as a kid and truthfully, I still spin around my kitchen in my socks as I am cooking. For over 17 years I danced. My parents put me in ballet and tap classes when I was around 2 or 3 years old. I always wanted to jump around and spin to all kinds of music. I continued dancing until I was old enough to begin competing. I was around 8 at the time and had expanded my genres into lyrical, hip hop, jazz, and musical theatre. This was where my love for dance grew from something my parents had me doing to being something for me to meet friends and have fun every day. Don't get me wrong there were definitely the bad days and classes that I liked less than others. When I was younger I didn't like ballet, I thought it was boring. My ballet teacher used to be a russian ballerina and was much harder on technique than any 8 year old wants. She was very tough but also the best ballet teacher I have had to date. As I grew older I enjoyed her class more and more, even though my flexibility wasn't the best in the class, I strived to have the best technique. I competed until I was 18 and although competition season was always a stressful time for me, as soon as I was on the stage nothing else mattered. The moment the music started it was just me and how I was feeling that day. There are days that a single dance could have me in tears with how much passion I let out on the stage. There have been several times that I had others that had watched my dances come up to me to let me know how they had felt watching me perform. There is a level of passion that I had with competing that would leave me feeling like all the stress had left my body and wouldn't be coming back for the rest of the day at least. It has been several years now since I last competed, but the passion is still there as I have now experienced other types of dance that I hadn't before. From my dance studio I also received some acting training. I was able to audition and earned a spot with a haunted house that runs during the spooky months of September and October. Although I am no longer competing and training in dance, I still keep myself limber as I have been with this haunt for over 6 years now and don’t plan on leaving anytime soon. I plan a costume several months to a year in advance so that I can make any tweaks or order any custom parts prior to the beginning of meetings for the season. There are so many people who feel the same as I do and keep coming back to make people scream every year. The skills that I learned from dance and still utilize have helped me with my craft of scaring people although not the traditional kind of craft you may have been expecting, it is my own and the thing I look forward to and work on the most every year. You start off with a character, whatever you think might be scary. For the longest time I was afraid of clowns, so one of my main characters is a ringmaster. You can decide from there to be intimidating, creepy, or a jump scare. I tend to switch between all three depending on the group that is passing or which character I am playing that night. Does your character talk? Only make weird noises? It is completely up to the scarer. How do you walk crouched over, straight backed as if floating, crawling on the ground, or maybe you hobble like an old man. These are all the starting points for character creation. I have gone through many different creatures and have several memories to go with each. Just like with dancing, every night when I put on my costume and makeup nothing else matters. Unfortunately that does mean I have twisted my ankle several times as I was chasing groups through a cornfield. I look forward to each season and the screams that follow.
By Morgan Tucker5 years ago in Journal
Never Fitting In At Work. Top Story - June 2021.
To begin with, I never really felt like I fit in anywhere. Perhaps there are reasons for those feelings that I should have tried to address much, much earlier in life. However, hindsight being 20/20 doesn't do anything for the future, or even the now. Rejects, misfits, renegades, rogues, and loners. That's where I always felt I was in the social constructs of society.
By Jason Ray Morton 5 years ago in Journal
What I do every day
When people ask what I do and I tell the, I’m an artist they have this belief or assumption that I just paint pictures and kick back after finishing the latest colouring book. The funniest response I’ve been asked after informing someone that I am an artist was:
By Prince of Cavan Creations5 years ago in Journal
Avoiding Board Room Blunders
Ideas come to me in the strangest of places. I could be lathering up mid-shower and feel the need to rush out and execute a plan that flashed through my mind. I once mentally created an entire political musical during my daily commute; complete with character building, sub-plots and the perfect songs interjected at key moments of the 'play'. So when I approached our local Land Trust with an idea to bring a children's program to them on a whim, I wasn't expecting that they love the idea so much, that they decided to make me a board member too.
By Christina Hunter5 years ago in Journal
Gembership
I appreciate this prompt as I have been challenged to deeply examine the question of what brings me true fulfillment. It is a very separate issue from how I could potentially monetize that passion. It is not often we approach these questions in the order above. Too often the quest for money supersedes passion.
By Jessica D.5 years ago in Journal
My Portsmouth Uni Journey
It was September 2015 and I was sat in my partners car going towards Portsmouth ready for me to start at the University of Portsmouth in a few weeks, I wanted to go down earlier as it was a new area to me and I wanted to have plenty of time to find my way around before the term started. My first University home was Helena road by the canoe lake in Southsea, Portsmouth. I was literally a five minute walk from the beach. Moving away from home (which for me was Bristol) was daunting because before now I had never lived on my own and had my family within minutes of each other if I needed help but now I was going to have to figure everything out on my own. I suppose in a way I choose a Uni away from home so that I could find myself and be more independent then I was back home, it would be good for me and lets face we all have to grow up and become adults at some point so why not start at university.
By Holly-victoria Painter5 years ago in Journal
Are Hybrid Work Models The New Normal? Will They Help Us Navigate the Brave New World of Work in the Post Pandemic Age?
Covid has forced us indoors and companies to adopt Work from Home arrangements. Initially considered a short term measure, organizations worldwide are now contemplating making WFH either permanent or have some sort of mixed or the so-called “Hybrid Work” which is essentially a combination of onsite and remote work. While Tech firms such as Google and Twitter have provided their employees with the option of permanent WFH, others are moving towards a Hybrid model.
By Rammohan Susarla5 years ago in Journal
CAREER SCOPE IN SOC
Introduction of SOC team A Security Operations Center or SOC has now become quite a physical or virtual location that collects, analyzes, and acts upon the information. The key intent behind the SOC team would be to monitor and analyze the cybersecurity of an organization and mitigate cyber risks. The important thing role and responsibility of a SOC team is to guard the business enterprise from cyber-attacks and threats. So, building a SOC team is incredibly very important to any size of corporate.
By siem xpert5 years ago in Journal
I Am An Author Is This The Next Big Fad
Write an article, get the traffic. Well, sort of! Since the birth of writing articles, our industry has caught on to the phenomenon of increasing your website’s traffic by becoming a professional in your field. The only problem with this is that for every serious professional in one field, there are a thousand other writers who are jumping on the “bandwagon”.
By Muhammad Faheem5 years ago in Journal
