Internshipping Update.

I feel like I seem to be always writing about my job, or my expectations for my job or how it is to be searching for a job. Hopefully, this is the last job-search related post – I really want to be finally settled in at a great (and permanent) job! I’ve been doing an internship for a few weeks now which is going really well. It’s with a company that does online marketing and search engine optimisation. I’m working on organising a conference, researching and arranging speakers for the podcast, and doing some work writing content for the other peeps in the office. Another bonus? I’m rediscovering my love for spreadsheets!

It’s a super great office, everyone is friendly, and people are so willing to ask questions and answer questions and give help. Plus, because this industry is always changing, everyone needs to keep on their toes and so there’s something new to learn or master everyday. It’s pretty swell.

Something that really made me hesitate to apply for different jobs is that I wasn’t sure what I really wanted to do. I mean, I always thought I knew what I wanted to pursue as a career but without having first hand experience in that field it is hard to say if that’s really a good fit. The amazing this about this internship is that I’ve figured out that this is something I want to do and that I am good at it, and I can get better at it.

Frankenstein!

Last weekend (I mean the weekend before last since it’s Monday after all) Bear and I went to London for a super fun date day! We mainly went to see Frankenstein, which is playing at the National Theatre but we did a lot of eating too. So, the play has Johnny Lee Miller (who you might know from Hackers, Trainspotting, or being married to Angelina Jolie) and (this might be my favourite name in the whole world) Benedict Cumberbatch, who is in the Sherlock mini-series. They both play the roles of the Monster and the Doctor and switch up each night, which is a pretty impressive feat. Unfortunately, Benedict Cumberbatch was sick, as were a number of the other actors (craft services gone wrong?), but Johnny Lee Miller was an amazing monster. It was a really physical part and he was really captivating. The understudies were 50/50, but over all the cast was great.

The only critique I have is that pretty much throughout the entire play, I was wondering why there had been a full on steam engine in the second scene, with sparks flying everywhere and railway folk singing. The singing let me to believe (and get excited!) that it might be a musical. But alas, it was not. Plus, this made it seem the they were more focused on the staging (and bells and whistles, like a revolving stage and a giant bell) than on the acting. The play itself is a new play by Nick Dear which was based of course on Mary Shelley’s original, and it was directed by Danny Boyle. The play didn’t seem like it was quite there. It seemed a bit like it was trying to sound as if it had been written a few hundred years ago, and the language was a bit forced. And the it really did come across like Danny Boyle forgot that it wasn’t a major motion picture, but live theatre and the crazy special effects were a bit unnecessary.

All in all we were happy that we’d seen it, and if you’re in London I would recommend it that you do the same, but it just wasn’t exactly what we’d thought it was going to be. If you’d like a second opinion, here’s Time Out’s review.