What are they on about
Two things to post about today since it has been a while.
The first, I gave my first speech at
Toastmasters
last Thursday after reading
Steve Pavlina's blog inspired me to join. I had a nice speech memorized, I knew how I was
going to move around the stage, and I was total confident. Then I
got up in front of everyone, smiled my way through my first sentence,
made eye contact with a few people, and totally forgot what I was going
to say. Suddenly I had gone from a centered confident person back
to my standby introvert that's terrified of talking to people.
Somehow I managed to stumble through it with a lot of pauses,
suprisingly few ah's and um's, and a few laughs from the
audience. Besides my confidence carrying over from my mind to my
actions, there's one other thing I need to work on. When I'm
thinking I look up and roll back on my heels. I did get 2 awards
out of it though, First Timer and Best Speech. First Timer is
easy. :) For the Best Speech, mine was the only of the 3 given
that was humorous and, honestly, not boring. The other 2 were
presentations people were practicing to give, so they were sort of
dry. Of course mine was a shoe in because I was the only one that
stayed within the time limit and was therefore the only eligible
speech, but I think I still would have won even with a little
competition.
The second topic,
The Hitchhikers Guide to the
Galaxy,
the
movie. I saw it on Sunday and I wouldn't suggest you
see it. If you have never read the books, then the movie will
make absolutely no sense to you. Several people I overheard when
leaving came up with the standard confusing-movie movie review:
WTF?. Those of us that have read the books and saw it came up
with the standard book-to-movie movie review: WTF?. A series of
books was compressed to 1 movie under 2 hours and it didn't work.
If you haven't read the books, definitely don't see it. If you
have read the books, you're likely also a fan and nothing I can say
will or should stop you from seeing it. I just really hope
Enders Game the movie
doesn't turn out that way...