Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Where's my James Brown?
Because for the first time in a while I feel good about my job.
That's because for really the first time since starting here and one of the first times in the weekends I spent designing the LDR I was out before deadline ... actually out before deadline, and even on the night I was in charge of the Sports section front and two additional pages. None of them were particularly hard to do, but this was the first time I was able to pull three out in that time.
This also marks the first time I really felt confident about my probation period ending at the end of November. I'm not so much concerned about whether I'll still want to be here at the end of November (the answer being a resounding "hell yes") as to whether or not I will have improved enough at the job for it to be worth their time to keep me, pay me benefits, possibly deem me worthy of meriting me a merit-based salary increase (not that the money I make now isn't enough for me to live on, but it's the thought that a raise is actually a possibility).
Now regarding other parts of my life:
Relationships
Yeah, sadly this hasn't moved an inch further in the course of the last, oh, maybe 6 months being generous. Yes, there are single people in the newsroom and one in particular who I've been getting to know pretty well.
Unfortunately, as has come both to me and to other people who care for me who have advised me in much the same way, even so much as asking out someone in the newsroom, particularly one who works nights almost as often as I do (and often more often, which is somewhat frightening because I'm not in the least bit on the dayside), could very possibly make that awkward.
On the other hand, were it not for those circumstances I think I have reason to believe within a reasonable doubt that I might have the off chance of getting a date. After all, and as often I can remind myself of this the better, I don't think I'm all that bad of a guy.
To rectify that situation, I think I'm going to give the online dating another shot, why not? I certainly know, especially after just introducing myself to a bunch of new people just a few weeks ago, that meeting people face to face is definitely not going to be the way I get a date. I feel like I could capture someone's interest about as well as a houseplant can that way.
So there's online, which at least introduced me to new people who I know are interested in dating and I get to introduce myself in a way other than the slow-to-act organs inhibiting my communication that I call my lips.
Cat
For those who don't know, I now have a cat, Crowley, who I believe is about seven months old and shares a few of the traits of the Good Omens character for which he is named. He also despises the collar I just put on him tonight, despite the fact that it could ensure his safe return to regular food, water and a litter box.
I have tried to explain this to him, but he seems to fail to grasp the concept. In the meanwhile, he jingles and tries to manipulate around the license tag now very involuntarily hanging from his neck.
That's because for really the first time since starting here and one of the first times in the weekends I spent designing the LDR I was out before deadline ... actually out before deadline, and even on the night I was in charge of the Sports section front and two additional pages. None of them were particularly hard to do, but this was the first time I was able to pull three out in that time.
This also marks the first time I really felt confident about my probation period ending at the end of November. I'm not so much concerned about whether I'll still want to be here at the end of November (the answer being a resounding "hell yes") as to whether or not I will have improved enough at the job for it to be worth their time to keep me, pay me benefits, possibly deem me worthy of meriting me a merit-based salary increase (not that the money I make now isn't enough for me to live on, but it's the thought that a raise is actually a possibility).
Now regarding other parts of my life:
Relationships
Yeah, sadly this hasn't moved an inch further in the course of the last, oh, maybe 6 months being generous. Yes, there are single people in the newsroom and one in particular who I've been getting to know pretty well.
Unfortunately, as has come both to me and to other people who care for me who have advised me in much the same way, even so much as asking out someone in the newsroom, particularly one who works nights almost as often as I do (and often more often, which is somewhat frightening because I'm not in the least bit on the dayside), could very possibly make that awkward.
On the other hand, were it not for those circumstances I think I have reason to believe within a reasonable doubt that I might have the off chance of getting a date. After all, and as often I can remind myself of this the better, I don't think I'm all that bad of a guy.
To rectify that situation, I think I'm going to give the online dating another shot, why not? I certainly know, especially after just introducing myself to a bunch of new people just a few weeks ago, that meeting people face to face is definitely not going to be the way I get a date. I feel like I could capture someone's interest about as well as a houseplant can that way.
So there's online, which at least introduced me to new people who I know are interested in dating and I get to introduce myself in a way other than the slow-to-act organs inhibiting my communication that I call my lips.
Cat
For those who don't know, I now have a cat, Crowley, who I believe is about seven months old and shares a few of the traits of the Good Omens character for which he is named. He also despises the collar I just put on him tonight, despite the fact that it could ensure his safe return to regular food, water and a litter box.
I have tried to explain this to him, but he seems to fail to grasp the concept. In the meanwhile, he jingles and tries to manipulate around the license tag now very involuntarily hanging from his neck.
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