I’ve been meaning to tell you! I got the job! We were able to come to a good place for my offer, I signed it and faxed it over, did the silly drug test thing and gave my two weeks notice… a week ago!

So, a week from Monday, I start my new job at Sony!!

Ok, so it’s kinda like my old job there(when they were Sonic Foundry), when I was an intern… only now, with lots more leadership and ideas and excitement.

I’ll be working on a site I helped create!

anyways, thanks for all your support. I’m very thrilled, this all feels very much like a dream.

I’m working on a pc with a nice big monitor. It’s totally ok for me to bring in my ibook and listen to music/podcasts while I work.

Still trying to figure if the beltline or 113-M is a better way for me to go.

Using my skills and brain for the web stuff is good, if a bit tiring. The last month and a half was just internet researching, which required critical thinking, of course, but not a whole lot of mental problem solving.

I hope this gig has lots of ongoing work for me. It’s nice.

Add the drive home placing me at home around 6 or so, and you get a relatively quiet introspective dreamling who eats her dinner and goes off to read and then sleep.

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Mom should fly home from Cancun today. It’s been so strange not to be able to talk with her all week about the gig, and Christmas and everything. We’re a close family, so we end up phoning or at least texting throughout the week. She did manage to call my bro for a couple min this week so we’d know she got there, and that the torrential raining had made it almost impossible for her to get scuba certified- the main reason for going.

I actually had a dream the other night that was kinda like a roadtrip mystery, ending with me accosting some blond lady just before I woke up, asking her ‘Where is my mother’. awww. poor subconscious. hehe

My new boss told me about at time he got stuck in an elevator! he ended up having to email for help from a open wireless connection. hee

I’ve never done pure consultant work, but it just may suit this time in my life.

They still have to check my references, but that should go fine. Then a couple days finishing up the clerical temp job, and woo!

woo!

/tiny tim voice ‘God Bless us every one’

Man, what a great Christmas gift!

woo!

What exactly do I need to learn to be indispensable to people?

Art night this week was fantastic. We made it out to Pasqual’s and enjoyed some pre-art margaritas. Then we had a fantastic time, arting, laughing, listening to music, watching Eli walk!! (his second day of walking!!) I love these fantastic people.

Well, I’m going to finish my sandwich now, eat my soup and drink my mocha, and see what unfolds tonight.

Be warm everyone!

Okokokokok. Excited, and leetle bit nervous. However, I know I can do this job, and it sounds like they need me. This could be very cool.

/luck!

Ok, I have a phone interview today at noon. It’s for a position with a creative company, and I’d love for it to go well. May only be temp work, but in a field much closer to where I’d like to direct a career.

Wish me luck!

This weekend is filmcon.

sigh

Then I headed out to Escape Java, where I got to see various members of the studio, and where I kicked a whole lot of php butt in a super focused mode brought on by a yummy mocha latte, and fabulous friendiness. Also of note, they were showing ‘The Abyss’ on the wall outside the store, cold night for it, but really cool.

Also learned that the job I want -Called my References!. So, a whole lot of crossed fingers, toes and other body parts(you think on that).

Ok, off to the temp job. I am currently excel monkey, yay for macros.

+ I have now enabled php and installed mysql on Kotoko, my ibook.
- I am not done with the thing I was going to finish and send off to the guy from my interview callback on friday.
+ during that interview, neither he nor I could get a database hooked up to the webpage, mostly because he hadn’t properly set up the data connection.
- this is a stupid stupid thing to test. once a connection is set up, you don’t have to remember how to set it up, you either include it in each file or paste as needed.
- after finally getting the db working in mysql on kotoko, i am very very far behind on this task, and pretty much wasted all of my sunday, and I’m all worked up and frustrated.
+ at least my temp work does not start until 10 tommorrow.
+ also, I am happy not to have to do transcription tommorrow, because of already being signed up for the temp work that starts at 10.
-friday afternoon, I transcribed for 4 hours, which was interesting enough, I guess, but hurt my hands, and I was hooked up to a tape recorder! with a pedal!
- also, was transcribing for a company I interviewed with, who turned me down earlier this summer.

friday morning!

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Temped all day at an elementary school, had a great time.

I am also quite down about not hearing back from several places I’ve submitted my resume to.

I’m set up for 1-2 weeks though, starting monday, at a place where a friend works, so… that’s how things stand.

I need a personal cheerleader. Cheer has been low recently.

Carlo is cooking steak and rolls tonight, though, which is pleasant.

Monday, one cousin I didn’t see in Ohio was actually in Madison, so we did dinner over at Mom’s and then went out to The Great Dane, it was great to see her, even though I was still travel-tired from the long weekend.

Thursday!!! I had an interview for a job that really suits me. I feel I did the best I could, and really am crossing my fingers and holding my breath for it.

Thursday was also Kim’s birthday, and there were margaritas, quesadilla’s and chocolate torte truffel birthday cake to be had, and we snuck some Heroes fan moments in there too.

whew. things fly by so fast, I want to remember, so I jot them down.

Had an interview with a different company today, for usability testing. Interviewer was really cool. Could be interesting work.

Have a neat interview next thursday.

I’m heading to Ohio for the weekend, my Mom is heading to her high school reunion, and I’m tagging along. Will see some family, and get to hang with mom, while hubby holds down the fort here.

eee, gotta finish packing! Have a great weekend, my friendies.

It’s a beautiful day for a drive, the leaves are changing all over and the air is cool but the sun still warm.

I had an interview on the west side this afternoon. It went well. I have a lot of things they are looking for regarding web, and the position may offer up to 50% actual work on print. That’s exciting. To be able to continue web, but also learn and grow in marketing and promotions. Could be awesome.

I redid my portfolio http://portfolio.metahari.com, and made a jewelboxed cdr to hand the interviewer. The portfolio has been reskinned, margins adjusted, and edited for a clearer look at my best works. Please give it a new look and feel free to share comments and critiques.

I made a list of all the jobs in the paper last night for applying to this week, and applied to a company last night and one today. I did research on three other jobs, talking to my supa-secret contacts. And! I got a call back from a blind box that I sent my hardcopy resume to last week, (the posting in the WI State Journal titled itself ‘Great Job’ which I find to be positive). So, I have a brief phone interview for that on wed.

There is a job faire at the Alliant Center tommorrow, so I made a whole bunch of copies of my resume to hand out there. I haven’t had great success with job faires in the past, working in the fairly specialized field of Web development and design, but it never hurts to get more eyes on the resume, and meet some people in person. Resumes are like business cards, they do no good unless you hand them out.

It is very windy outside, though pleasant in temperature. The trees have begun to turn colors, and the geese are back paddling around the little man made pond near our house, getting ready for their long trip south.

Please give it a look and give me any feedback you wish. Also, if you feel I’m missing a piece that should appear there, please tell me which one.
Check it out here: http://portfolio.metahari.com/

I got pretty much everything working the way I wanted, and might make some css tweaks next week, but I think it’s pretty good to go, and more than ok for submission to prospective jobs.

The job I was really excited about wasn’t for me. I really hit it off with the HR lady, but the manager guy hadn’t even read my resume, and seemed really distant, as well as a bit rude. I got the call they had gone with someone else who had more e-blast experience.

Working with another recruiter on a couple more jobs possibilities. Have at least 1 interview next week. edit: 2 interviews next week for this recruiter, looks like I’ll have my choice of positions.

Overall, blah. There just aren’t a lot of web designer jobs out there. There are only a few web developer jobs out there, and some of those would take me further down a tech road I’m not sure I want to follow.

The lure of being a massage therapist is still there, obviously a step I can’t take right now. Switching careers at this point just doesn’t seem wise. It’s something I do want to pursue in the future. I feel like I have an innate gift, and love being able to help people. After I get certified, I could continue doing web, and work massage part time if I wanted.

I got into this biz to do fun design and graphic stuff, audio and video things, and I’m having trouble finding the jobs that let me do creative web things. I would love a job doing web promotions, podcasts, videos and designs.

Anyway, please keep your eyes and ears open for jobs for me. I’m ready.

catch you all later!