:: May 17, 2006
Today is the five year anniversary of this blog! Of course the thing has become stagnant but I still have the love. Here is the first entry:
Dan has a scary bitchy girl over right now looking at the place. She's little and has a weak handshake. Apparently she didn't feel that it was necessary to hide her disgust with my room depite the fact that I was standing right there.
I don't understand how some people get to be the way they are.
I got a rejection letter from the job today. I want to write the old grandpa-ish Texan executive director and say, hey, next time you interview a person (twice), you shouldn't show her to what would be her new private office, seat her in what would be her huge, ergonomically correct office chair, and give her a writing test on what would be her G4 and 20" monitor. Because when you reject her, she has to go back to her $20 task chair and four-year-old Mac clone crammed into a 15' X 30' office with four other editors.
Dan just said the prospective housemate told him she's "really into her spirituality."
Five years ago I had just gotten engaged and was moving out of my duplex to live in semi-sin with Bryan. We were working at The Austin Chronicle. I was sick of it and looking for another job. In January 2002 we were both mysteriously fired. (These two facts are probably related but to this day I still don't understand it completely.) But never mind -- the early oughts were a wonderful, creative time. Working at the Chronicle I encountered strange and interesting things all the time. The first month of entries reflect that (OK, maybe not that first one) and are still some of my favorites -- I'd point you to others but I just discovered that a number of my archives have been hacked! Hmm, gotta fix that.
I still encounter strange and interesting things all the time, but now they are mostly tied up with my work, and it would be getting into hinkey territory to talk about them online. Honestly though, I used to get out a lot more and was generally a lot more charmed and puzzled about the oddball things that happen every day. I'd like to get back in that mindset and that habit of recording such things, even if nobody is listening anymore.
posted in Excitement Machine News
:: Comments !!!
i'm listening... i'd be up for a machine resurgance!!
Posted by lisa s on May 18, 2006 12:47 AM
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more excitement!
more excitement!
more excitement!
bw charmed by the bbc and their helpful tips
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/alabaster/A450587
and r. kellys hiphopera is worth seeing tro keep on trukin lil kim.
i try to make it to see you this summer after wedding in madison.
ggggggg
Posted by glu on May 24, 2006 9:16 AM
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Just found some old bookmarks and came by to see if the Machine was still breathing - yeay! Now you're on my daily rounds. Glad to see you're out there.
Posted by julie on July 9, 2006 2:39 AM
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