Trouser Talk


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Laurie

S: I?m here with my friend, Laurie Bohm who..uh..I?ve known since my days at Amazon, or her days at Amazon. And she just recently applied for school. Where did you apply?

L: (laughing) I applied to Seattle Central Community College in their Film and Video Communications Program to get my third degree.

S: Is Seattle Central the one over on Broadway across from the church? And there?s the other one. I always get Seattle Central and Seattle U mixed up.

L: No, It?s the one that?s across from the Egyptian.

S: Right, ok. Is that a community college?

L: Um hmm.

S: So it?s an AA in Film and

L: Video Communications. It?s a 2-year full time program.

S: So why did you decide to do that?

L: Because I?m tired of having unstable jobs in education, and I want to learn something new. So I?ll have an unstable job in some other field. (laughing)

S: That makes sense.

L: Yeah, and I can get a part time job ? a well paying part time job to help supplement my full time schooling. And go further into debt.

S: A part time well paying job?

L: (laughing) Yeah, cause I can?t seem to find a full time, well-paying job that I like, I can get a part time, well paying job that I don?t necessarily like. It would be alright.

S: You could be one of those court reporters.

L: I think you have to go to more school for that. And my typing skills are real bad, cause I only type with one finger and do 30 words per minute.

S: What?s a standard typing speed?

L: 50 or 60

S: Oh, yeah, you can?t be a typist. You could do what Stacey was doing and apply for the Seattle City Light journeymanship program in which you would hang telephone line, or electrical wire, actually.

L: I wouldn?t mind that so much except for the electricity part.

S: And in the rain? So you just applied for it?

L: I?m on the wait list, cause they?re full already. But I just found out that one of the people that I work with, his brother is in the program. He was on the wait list last summer and said that he got in. Cause once tuition comes due, people start dropping out.

S: Why, Video Communications?

L: Cause I?m really interested in documentary filmmaking, and I just took the first part of a three part class and I wasn?t really happy with the teacher. I wanted to do something that would be more intensive and give me something more serious. So, I started looking around, and there?s not a whole lot of options. There?s the UW certificate program that I was thinking about. It?s an evening program. It?s only 6 or 9 months and it costs the same amount as the community college 2-syear program. It just seems that the community college would be just more intensive. It has a very, very excellent reputation, actually.

S: You can get all the learning in 6 months at UW?

L: No, you don?t get all the learning. You just get part of the learning. And I would really love to like sort of? I don?t want to do it as a hobby. It?s something I?m really interested in pursuing in some way, shape or form, you know in order to be some type of career. So I thought I would get serious about it.

S: (with cake in mouth) mumble?well?.

L: And part of it is, I?m probably going to be losing my job at the end of the August anyway, so it just seemed like good timing.

S: Do you know much about the industry?

L: I know some about it, but that?s why I want to go to school, so I can learn even more.

S: Well, if you need any music for your future documentary?

L: I definitely will. I?ve got a lot of people I could go to, actually.

S: No, no no. Come to me. None of those others.

L: You put nice things about me in your blog and, sure, I?ll come to you.