I'd ideally be on my way to class right now, but for some reason tonight EVERYONE in my office is still here. Which is cool, I'm just hanging out and drinking from the keg (yes, the office keg of delicious Stella Artois). But the thing is I really don't have anything to do so I'm just sort of...here.
The free beer takes the sting out of working late on a Thursday, and there may well be some free food too - but it is also nice when I just get to go home. I try to find productive things to do but at a certain point it just devolves into surfing the web.
I did get to do something new today though - I was sent to the visual fx house on Newbury Street that was revising a spot to "approve" a set of new versions of this spot. It was cool because I got to meet the producer there who I had only talked to over the phone and emailed with so far, and that it was a 'producerly duty' which was nice that I was entrusted with it. Joyce, who sent me to do this, is definitely my favorite here because she really gives me things to do that make me feel like she is relying on me and I feel useful in a bigger way than just as an office monkey. Of course, Joyce also gets a sweet bonus if I stay for 6 months, so maybe that has something to do with it...heh. Either way, I appreciate it.
However if I did have a more long term project that I could at least work on when I am stuck here late, it would be good. I think something like that will come along in the next couple months, so that'll be cool. In the meantime I am just hanging out and bonding with the coworkers where I can.
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
#2
So I did end up making it to class. And again yesterday. It went very well and if I can keep that pattern up I'm going to be a much happier camper.
It's been pretty slow at work lately, hence the blogging. I have a solid handle on the more mundane responsibilities I've been given and as far as those are concerned I've gotten good feedback. I can get tapes dubbed like a pro! (that's a joke, lest anyone think the height of my ambition is to ask people to duplicate tapes)
I do have an increasingly good idea of what I need to learn to be valuable in other ways and to move into a higher position, but I am also paying some dues here, so it'll be a while before that could really happen and so I have time to learn.
Well apart from being really bored there is other stuff going on, but nothing of dramatic note. I donated fifty bucks to Barack Obama yesterday.
If something riles me up, I'll be back!
It's been pretty slow at work lately, hence the blogging. I have a solid handle on the more mundane responsibilities I've been given and as far as those are concerned I've gotten good feedback. I can get tapes dubbed like a pro! (that's a joke, lest anyone think the height of my ambition is to ask people to duplicate tapes)
I do have an increasingly good idea of what I need to learn to be valuable in other ways and to move into a higher position, but I am also paying some dues here, so it'll be a while before that could really happen and so I have time to learn.
Well apart from being really bored there is other stuff going on, but nothing of dramatic note. I donated fifty bucks to Barack Obama yesterday.
If something riles me up, I'll be back!
Thursday, September 20, 2007
Starting off with a bang.
Time for a new korner. I haven't visited diaryland in quite a while, and I suspect that my little journal there is deactivated again. Mo suggested that I start up again to occupy some of my downtime, and it's a good idea.
As this is the first entry, I will try to form some kind of misson statement:
I will attempt to supply the maximum level of candor about all areas of my life and thoughts, withholding as little as possible while still making this a mom-friendly blog (not that I do anything that isn't Mom-friendly...hi Mom!)
And so here's the breakdown of my little world at the moment.
Work (Ad Agency Peon)
Girlfriend (soon to be wife!)
Wedding stuff (I get the easy end of this really)
Side Projects (writing mostly)
Video games (slaying imaginary things)
Jiu Jitsu (not that brazilian crap)
Hmm, yeah that covers most things. I was going to put percentages in there, but decided against it. Work would be the biggest one though.
Today is Thursday, and it's the last Thursday of the month, which is 'open mat' at my Jiu Jitsu class. Since I started this job in mid-June, I haven't been able to go to class very often and it has had an impact on the shape I'm in and the state of my training. I am going to make a serious effort to get to class tonight but the problem with this job is that it's rare that most of the other people here leave before 7:30. I would need to be in my car with my stuff by 8pm to get an hour of class time in (really tonight is a 2 hour class, but I'd be happy making the last hour). Because of all the travel time involved, I would really need to leave here by 7:00 in order to make it. That always seems so feasible but then something often happens that makes me too late to make it.
However because I feel my training and physical shape has deteriorated in the last couple months, I really have to come up with a solution. Tonight I am just going to try to bolt at 7 and say I have a class. If I am only doing that once a week I think it'll be fine.
Anyway that's probably all the blogging time I have today. Let's see if I can remember to check in on this tomorrow with an update on how it went.
As this is the first entry, I will try to form some kind of misson statement:
I will attempt to supply the maximum level of candor about all areas of my life and thoughts, withholding as little as possible while still making this a mom-friendly blog (not that I do anything that isn't Mom-friendly...hi Mom!)
And so here's the breakdown of my little world at the moment.
Work (Ad Agency Peon)
Girlfriend (soon to be wife!)
Wedding stuff (I get the easy end of this really)
Side Projects (writing mostly)
Video games (slaying imaginary things)
Jiu Jitsu (not that brazilian crap)
Hmm, yeah that covers most things. I was going to put percentages in there, but decided against it. Work would be the biggest one though.
Today is Thursday, and it's the last Thursday of the month, which is 'open mat' at my Jiu Jitsu class. Since I started this job in mid-June, I haven't been able to go to class very often and it has had an impact on the shape I'm in and the state of my training. I am going to make a serious effort to get to class tonight but the problem with this job is that it's rare that most of the other people here leave before 7:30. I would need to be in my car with my stuff by 8pm to get an hour of class time in (really tonight is a 2 hour class, but I'd be happy making the last hour). Because of all the travel time involved, I would really need to leave here by 7:00 in order to make it. That always seems so feasible but then something often happens that makes me too late to make it.
However because I feel my training and physical shape has deteriorated in the last couple months, I really have to come up with a solution. Tonight I am just going to try to bolt at 7 and say I have a class. If I am only doing that once a week I think it'll be fine.
Anyway that's probably all the blogging time I have today. Let's see if I can remember to check in on this tomorrow with an update on how it went.
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