Wednesday, 25 May 2011

Hoodies and dry eyes/jokes, plus We Should Appreciate Those Behind The Scenes

Megs:

THEY'RE HERE THEY'RE HERE THEY'RE HERE!! /caps

The hoodies for the Optometry Department at University of Auckland arrived today! Hooray!





This is the design the Third Years who organise the shirts every year, except this year we went for hoods). The terribly dry joke & design was by yours truly. But actually, all I did was sit in the computer room with a mouse, and Ctrl+Z, and Photoshop.

Rule: Never EVER EVER underestimate how much work goes on behind the scenes of a project.* It was really the third year class reps Hans and Tash who put all the work into getting the hoodies and orders sorted. Hours of work, and emailing (I saw these emails, these were inbox deluges) and bouncing quotes off heaps of companies, and running around to said companies, and then getting orders from people who wanted hoodies while all of us were trying to work through tests because it was uni-time and what have you. Therefore, all my thanks to these two!
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*Incidentally, music teachers at Westlake Girls seemed to love this analogy:
Your orchestra/choir is like a swan. You perceive all this beauty at a glance; yet what goes on beneath the surface is furious paddling. I.e. it's those off-stage who do all the crazy work that you don't see. And then only last year did this old man at a concert who was making a speech about AYO begin with, "The AYO is like... a duck." I honestly think he wasn't trying to be funny.