moving on up
Technically I’m just moving over a cube. I’m now the fifth most senior member of the marketing team. Two more folk are leaving by Wednesday. I’m stealing the print designer’s space. If my range of excitement equals swimming in a polluted city pool, I’d be standing in a puddle of feels-like-water on the uneven concrete edge. So, I’m pretty stoked.
I’ve been wicked productive this week, outside of work emphasis on the “outside of work”. I organized my room. I sorted the piles of papers into things I should keep and tossed the rest. I sorted most of the junk that’s accumulated on every flat surface. I filed quasi-important papers. I vacuumed. I did most of my laundry even folding a lot of it. All I have left to do is clean my bathroom, a load of laundry and pack a bag for the weekend.
I signed up for a course in Flash Actionscript, paid for by the company. I closed my TCF account so I have a checking and savings account in the same bank for the first time… ever. I watched Ghost World and the entire second season of Always Sunny.
I haven’t been this productive since the week after I moved. I’m frightened. On top of that, I went to a breakfast this morning where Murray Gaylord please, class… keep the snickers down presented the future of advertising in the interweb. He used to work for Yahoo! and is the current Vice President of Marketing at the New York Times so he’s only slightly less reputable than I. After the presentation I joined LinkedIn.
Summation: New media is the wave of the future. User participation is key almost five people comment on these posts; I know exactly what he’s talking about. Traditional media will be around, but to a lesser extent. Mass marketing is dead and a dandelion of personalized advertainment is growing above its rotting corpse.
Anyway, the productivity probably spurs from girlfriend being out of town this week. Not being able to chill with her when I’d like, I’ve had more time to deal with my accumulated clutter. Unfortunately, her absence, my fading month-long sickness and occupational irritation see: idiots have left me in a terrible mood for most of the week.
Thankfully, Mr. Gaylord planted some seeds of awesome that have partly cleared the dark thundercloud of my metaphorical sky. I, your thankless guide into everything unimportant, want to share a couple of these items with you.
I signed up for this thing called StumbleUpon. Basically, you hit a button and it navigates to a random page that fits into your preferences. An example: I clicked once, and went here. There are so many things awesome about that, a small child’s eyes may melt. Plus, I have no idea what’s going on or why; ice!
On my second click, it sent me here. Words haven’t been this fun since Johannes Gutenburg got his hands on the Word of God and by “fun” I mean tedious, filthy work.
All in all, you veteran youtubers out there may know this one already this was probably my favorite part of the morning:
Those crafty Germans or whatever language that is.
I’m organized, LinkedIn, financially shifted, laundered and learned. My room is clean and I get to move six feet to my right on Wednesday. Happy leap year, ya’ll!