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| Starting a new job today!
I think I will eventually have loads to say about it, but let me get through the first eight hours. Then I will come back and tell you how exciting it is.
:D
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| This weekend was... phenomenal. Busy as all weekends should be, but the phenomenal is worth recounting.
Friday night we had a WordPress Meetup. The people in attendance were mostly new attendees but not particularly new members. The first person to ever subscribe to the meetup, for instance, came to his first meetup ever on Friday. We talked through getting WP from nothing to content ready.
Post Meetup we went for food and beers. My members have been pestering me to get out with them socially for ages, yet only two came; my co-organizer and our founding member who had never actually been before. It was loud and cold and strangely fun. Strange because I, at one point, managed to sing Happy Birthday in the bathroom after a girl had asked who the hot guy at my table was.
In case you had wondered, this was not alcohol induced.
Next stop was the Wunderbar, known for it's awesome drinks, but sadly unable to make them for us. Transitional period, they said. By this time it was just me and our founding member and we talked from 10pm until 2am.
Closed down the bar, people.
Saturday for breakfast a girlfriend and I went to a nifty little bistro that is in a converted gas station. Great decor and good food. We sat and talked for hours, catching up on everything I've missed whilst dating a party pooper. Lunch was salads with a different group of girlfriends - again catching up on everything I had missed. Dinner was celebratory sushi with The Lads wherein they all congratulated me on the new job and spent lots of time explaining why they could always tell that guy 'wasn't right' for me.
Who knows why they couldn't have mentioned that prior to my getting dumped for no reason.
Saturday ended with drinks and talking from 9pm-2am. Sunday began with church then a lunch date. Rounded out the weekend with a fabulous BBQ - what can I say? My friends are awesome.
Very little sleep, but so much quality time I had been feeling deprived of.
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| "Talk to me," he said, pulling up a stool next to mine.
"'Bout what?" I said, waving at a sweet woman behind him. Networking does not end, people.
"Um... what about your new job?"
We had been stranded outside our meeting place together for about ten minutes and I had told everyone about my new job. Silence makes me nervous, you know, and these were all tech guys that just had nothing to say. So I said things. This guy, though, he is not a tech guy. He is in marketing, a field that I seem to officially have become part of.
"Well, I have been applying for jobs there for a while," I told him, "and I finally seem to have struck the right chord."
"Why didn't you apply at my office?"
"I did..."
His office, you see, is plainly hiring based on experience and not mental acuity or talent. I've never worked for an agency so they didn't take a second look at me.
"It's admirable in a way," I thought out loud, "knowing what you need and how to get it."
"Within reason."
"Of course within reason! I'm not suggesting that anyone commit genocide in the name of science."
Bad analogy, I think. The point still stands, though. It's not about breaking rules to get where you want. It's about working within the rules to turn the table in your favor. Meet the right people, do the right research, know what is happening and when. When an opportunity makes itself known, you'll be more ready than anyone else.
"I think my company will be sad they missed out on you," he admitted. I am not fooled, though. I say that they might be sad, but it will heighten their sense of competition.
Not that they work with travel, apparently, but I was all over it anyway. Enthusiasm burst. Boom.
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| I was going to write about Students at Work Day. And boy troubles. Then I was going to talk about dinner and maybe even my evening work out.
Then I had a friend tell me that she has gone completely deaf since we last spoke.
If that doesn't put your world into perspective, I don't know what will.
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| Watching my way through Eureka. I work out during the show, so I don't feel as bad as I otherwise might. I didn't used to watch so much tv, though. Tonight, however, I will be making a load of deviled eggs to take to Students at Work Day tomorrow.
We even did a lesson about dental careers at FreshPlans.
Squee and all that.
In other news, I received an email from my ex which made me profoundly sad just because he seems like he would be such a cool guy to meet.
And then a question for the ages: Should we feel better when our exes leave us for someone else or when they leave us just because we are us.
Discuss.
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