A few weeks ago, I got really excited about a communications specialist position posted on St. Jude/ALSAC’s website. I’m qualified for it, I know people there, it’s totally something I want to do and who doesn’t want to work at St. Jude, right? In fact, of all the jobs I’ve applied for, it’s the position [...]
|
|||||
|
So Friday was it. I am no longer a real estate advertising account executive at The Commercial Appeal. It’s late, and I’m loopy, and halfway ready to launch an “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, but mostly the worst” speech. But I’ve bitched enough. So now, I’m gonna talk about my [...] Wow, tomorrow’s my last day! Eeek! This evening’s treacherous tornados chased us briefly into the basement for shelter. Well, OK, actually… our security guy’s sorely belated request over the intercom chased us advertising folks into the basement like dutiful instruction-following employees (AHEM, EDITORIAL DEPT). But I didn’t mind the late-day diversion, because it reminded me to [...] I haven’t found time to take many office photos. I’ve been surprisingly busy in my last two weeks tying up loose ends, training my replacement, saying goodbye. I’d like to go on a big photo safari by Friday. I want to get some good shots of the mail room, the presses, the newsroom, the huge [...] I think I’ll take pictures of the office for the next 10 days or so. For posterity, if you will. And I know you will. This is during the rainstorm, taken from a second floor window looking at the West Parking Lot. Managers park there, so I’ve only been in it while standing around awkwardly [...] Well, I’ve been talking since Monday up the rafters and back about this, but for anyone who only knows me through here… my “big change” two posts ago is I’m leaving my job on July 31. It’s been a long, hard, sometimes great, sometimes awful six years. And now it’s time to move on. Move to [...] Crazy news day. Farrah Fawcett died, and the mayor of Memphis resigned, and Michael Jackson died. Briefly, a rumor circulated that Jeff Goldblum had died. Someone somewhere probably saw Jesus in a grease stain. Apple approved softcore porn on the iPhone. What the hell, world? All this upset makes me want a constant. And if there’s [...] Right here, by my open windows, are me and my computer. Enjoying the cool breeze and the sound of the lazy rain. Oddly, my mind is not a calm drizzle, but a spattering hose, jumping all over the real world and the internet and all the places between. I almost said “jumping and spraying,” but [...] CNN is running this story under the headline “Chinese mistress contest takes tragic turn” but really it should be “Some people deserve it, but this guy really deserved it.” http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/02/17/china.mistress.contest/index.html |
|
|
|||
|
Copyright © 2010 Scribblescrawl - All Rights Reserved |
|||||
