I attended a big to-do industry banquet last night, mostly because one of my co-workers was up for an award, and our agency was nominated for “agency of the year”. (We didn’t win.) They had a couple of local talking heads as the masters of ceremonies, and boy-oh-boy, you just have to be able to read off a card to make it in the world of TV. And these two? Not making it. <\/p>\n
There were two grammatical flubs that I seized like an otter on trout. The first was when the smiley-chick pronounced “Czar” – and after two stuttering tries, settled on “Cesar” but more like seeZAHR and I announced to our table if we won the agency award, I was going to proclaim I felt like the seeZAHR-ina of media. (At the last agency, I was dubbed the Czarina of ProBono. And we said it right.)<\/p>\n
Then, another woman was painfully trying to simultaneously understand and pronounce “mimeograph”, and this, dear friends, is why you REHEARSE if you’ve been given a script. So she went with MIME-o-graph, as in Marcel Marceaux pantomimes a document for you, 16 times. I, of course, immediately began my own miming at the table. Hey, I was sandwiched between the non-stop laughing of Kristin<\/a> and my boss who is afflicted with ADD. He kept muttering and snarking, until finally I strongly advised him to “GO INSIDE.” (as in, yourself. That’s what I do, anyway, when faced with long speeches or painfully forced banter and I can’t escape.)<\/p>\n That or I just get uber-snarky. Like when my boss said, “Hey! Check out the tat(too) on (name of person who f’n hates me)!” And I replied, “Yeah. I think she got it in prison.” (Thanks to Kristin for remembering that one.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I attended a big to-do industry banquet last night, mostly because one of my co-workers was up for an award, and our agency was nominated for “agency of the year”. (We didn’t win.) They had a couple of local talking heads as the masters of ceremonies, and boy-oh-boy, you just have to be able to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plazajen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}