So I had a late(ish) meeting yesterday afternoon that turned into more of a tech survey.
We went to the venue that the awards ceremony will be held at in February. Traditionally I used to avoid these things like the plague. Although I was always invited to come it was less about me enjoying myself and more about me taking a Friday night off to work.
Can you, gentle reader, spot the erroneous assumption in that last statement?
But now it's different, I have to work it, so it was time I saw what the hub-bub was all about.
And overall, I was generally pretty impressed, a high-end venue with a distinct art deco atmosphere. Pretty swank. A lot of the issues discussed at the meeting put me in mind of my old stage managing days. So I got to soak in some nostalgia. Although I'm pretty sure my on-site job for the actual event will be geared more towards photo taking and 'handling' the distinguished guests.
For a shy bugger like myself, that's going to be a bit of a push.
Damn you shiny new job for pushing me to step out of my comfort zone. Don't you know that eat, breathe and sleep in said comfort zone.
Faulk out.
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Tuesday, January 15, 2008
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Suits
Ugh.
What I know about suits isn't even worth posting about.
I'm a Jeans and T-shirt kinda guy. And since my office is fairly casual I've never really had to operate outside of those parameters. Hell, some of the IT departments pads around in shorts and sandals in the summertime. So compared to them, attire wise, I'm laughing.
But, new jobby equals new responsibilities, equals the need to upgrade my wardrobe, equals me needing to buy a suit.
First off. Suits are expensive, yo. I went shopping at the Bay yesterday because a friend alerted me that they were having a clearance sale. Yah, clearing out all the crap because the good stuff had been sold already. There was nothing for me there. S and I experimented and found a couple that would have been really nice, but lo and behold those suits were the only ones not on sale at the time.
It's really hard to mentally push yourself to dropping 500 dollars on a suit, when nearly identical ones in the same department are going on sale for 180. There's a financial gap there thats hard to justify.
In the end we walked away from the suits. I'm not against paying five bills for a good suit. Sooner, rather than later, I'm going to need it no matter what. But I wasn't really feeling the 'I need to buy this suit right now or my life will cease to have meaning' vibe. I've still got about 700 dollars worth of school related expenses that I need to clear from my credit card over the next month or so before I make any other big purchases.
Then, when I'm debt free, and better able to justify the expense, is when I can take my time and find a suit that I really want, as opposed to one that just happens to be available.
What I know about suits isn't even worth posting about.
I'm a Jeans and T-shirt kinda guy. And since my office is fairly casual I've never really had to operate outside of those parameters. Hell, some of the IT departments pads around in shorts and sandals in the summertime. So compared to them, attire wise, I'm laughing.
But, new jobby equals new responsibilities, equals the need to upgrade my wardrobe, equals me needing to buy a suit.
First off. Suits are expensive, yo. I went shopping at the Bay yesterday because a friend alerted me that they were having a clearance sale. Yah, clearing out all the crap because the good stuff had been sold already. There was nothing for me there. S and I experimented and found a couple that would have been really nice, but lo and behold those suits were the only ones not on sale at the time.
It's really hard to mentally push yourself to dropping 500 dollars on a suit, when nearly identical ones in the same department are going on sale for 180. There's a financial gap there thats hard to justify.
In the end we walked away from the suits. I'm not against paying five bills for a good suit. Sooner, rather than later, I'm going to need it no matter what. But I wasn't really feeling the 'I need to buy this suit right now or my life will cease to have meaning' vibe. I've still got about 700 dollars worth of school related expenses that I need to clear from my credit card over the next month or so before I make any other big purchases.
Then, when I'm debt free, and better able to justify the expense, is when I can take my time and find a suit that I really want, as opposed to one that just happens to be available.
Thursday, January 10, 2008
Getting my work on...
So.
Time for a bit of a breather.
I hit a very important deadline yesterday for the magazine. About 85% of the material has made its way off to the designer, leaving me with just one last feature to pull together over the next week or so.
It’s been a bit of a tough row to hoe and a couple times I wasn’t sure I that I’d hit my deadline at all. The mag has become job numero uno for me since taking on this new job.
My experience as editor is non existent and I had to learn a LOT as I went along, so I think it went slower this time out than it probably will again. But it was very involved and, on top of my other work, very stressful at times.
I’ve been operating in a bubble with absolutely no feedback on the mag as I put it together. So while I think the finished product is pretty kick ass, I have to admit I’ve lost some of my objectivity. I know the editorial committee is going to be fairly critical when we starting getting proofs back and that criticism would be more productive earlier in the process.
S has been a rock through the whole thing and last night we celebrated the achievements by opening a bottle of champagne and very quickly getting giggly.
So now, after my 24 hour breather, I can move on to all those other jobs that I quietly stuffed under a rug over the last month and a half, including planning for the awards ceremony in February and my upcoming nuptials in August.
Time for a bit of a breather.
I hit a very important deadline yesterday for the magazine. About 85% of the material has made its way off to the designer, leaving me with just one last feature to pull together over the next week or so.
It’s been a bit of a tough row to hoe and a couple times I wasn’t sure I that I’d hit my deadline at all. The mag has become job numero uno for me since taking on this new job.
My experience as editor is non existent and I had to learn a LOT as I went along, so I think it went slower this time out than it probably will again. But it was very involved and, on top of my other work, very stressful at times.
I’ve been operating in a bubble with absolutely no feedback on the mag as I put it together. So while I think the finished product is pretty kick ass, I have to admit I’ve lost some of my objectivity. I know the editorial committee is going to be fairly critical when we starting getting proofs back and that criticism would be more productive earlier in the process.
S has been a rock through the whole thing and last night we celebrated the achievements by opening a bottle of champagne and very quickly getting giggly.
So now, after my 24 hour breather, I can move on to all those other jobs that I quietly stuffed under a rug over the last month and a half, including planning for the awards ceremony in February and my upcoming nuptials in August.
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