Week in Roundup

Dear Diary,

Well, the first week of me working is great and over. I am officially a card carrying member of corporate america. The contract I'm working at put me in the offices of Nokia here in Dallas. Nokia is the most laid back environment, and what makes it even more laid back is the fact that our technology department falls under the umbrella of the marketing group.... so little or no effort at all produces ooh's and aahh's from the higher ups. It's quite rewarding.

So far all week long, my first week has consisted of probably a grand total of 4 or 5 hours of real work and about 25 hours of meetings.

My job is to be a web developer/webmaster for www.NokiaUSA.com. It's a really tough job, lemme tell you. If you believe that I have some swampland in Florida you might be interested in. ;-) Ahh so little to do, and so much time to do it in.

I don't want to lose all my friends, so I won't mention my salary. But it's enough to be considered a crime.

This week we are babysitting a cat for Crackbaby's girlfriend. And we are babysitting our friend dirty.a.sid and his kid (he's looking for a new apartment this week). And I'm finally working and keeping my mind sharp again. Which is a good deal.

At my job I have not a cube, not an office, but count 'em, one TWO offices! yes! Because I'm going thru a consulting firm, I have an office at the firm I share with a couple guys, and I have an office at Nokia that is all my own! yes! Don't ask me why, the rest of the team is in cubes, but me, an office. I'm pretty happy about the whole deal.

And yes, the facial hair is staying off. I guess I'm used to my new look. I'll post a pic for all of you to look at. I'm sure you are all real interested. Look for that some day when I'm bored at work with the quickcam.

At any rate, it's Phitt's birthday tonight... so I've gotta go celebrate. Everyone sing happy birthday for him. It'll make him feel all speshul.

/rizzn

Quote of the Entry: "One was nice. One was...not so nice. Then another guy came in. That was fine for a little while."

- kat

Quaffing Coffee (say that five times fast)

Dear Diary,

I am now working at my new job. Well, I do say working in the loosest sense of the word. They gave me a bunch of papers to fill out and things that you normally fill out when you start a new job, and now I am sitting here at my desk in my office doing absolutely nothing. I feel like I have really achieved something here. (no sarcasm intended!)

I know the people here are going to be cool because they guy across the way has a framed schwa poster in his office.

Apparently I'm not going to be doing web design as I first was informed. I am actually going to be an admin. Which is fine with me I guess. It at least sounds fun. I get to administer and set up the offices exchange servers. Now granted I have never done this before, and also granted that they project manager who gave me this assignment and hired me knows this, BUT, I am still assigned this task.

But my first assignment is to sit at this desk till someone tells me where the network data center is. And I am dutifully performing this task while quaffing coffee and typing to you, diary.

Hrmm.. I think I'll go get some more coffee.

/rizzn

Quote of the Entry: "Take it away, Enrique!"

- kelly

Yay for Sheep

Dear Diary,

Well fun day today. I completely changed my appearance for the sake of a job. Gone is my facial hair. Yes, all of it. My face is as smooth as a newborn baby's butt. (not that I'd know personally how smooth a baby's butt is, it's just an expression)

I'm not real happy about the whole deal, but it's supposed to basically ensure that I land a job that pays 65k a year, so I guess I can't complain about it real loud.

And I have to wear a suit and a tie. You can guess how happy I am about that whole deal too, but hey. Everyone has their price I guess. And someone found the price it takes for me to remove my copious wallet chains, shave the goatee and the sideburns and wear a suit and tie in three digit degree weather.

I guess that makes me a suit now.

One of the people that Phillip and I used to make fun of while we were out on our cigarette breaks. I remember him or I asking the other if we thought we'd actually become a suit. I didn't know but Phillip took a look at me and told me I for sure would never be a suit. Oh well. ;-)

Well, I'm going to make a mix cd now. Fun fun.

/rizzn

Quote of the Entry: "Yeah. You read that right. BARNYARD FUN. "

- crackbaby

Hi there.

Dear Diary,

Well, what can I say. I guess I'm back. I took about a month's worth of vacation. Hi.

I really don't have an excuse for it other than I needed to straighten things out. Things in life were going poorly all around, but now I think I've got things on the right track. (Gee how many times have I said that?).

But anyways, hope you like the new dezine. It's pretty stupid, I know, but hey, no one will probably ever read this diary anymore -- it's been ages since I've appeared online.

And to allay any questions, the answer is no, I didn't go to jail again.

But thanks for asking.

I guess I'll let you know more of what's actually going on in my life in a little bit. Right now I'm going to go to sleep at what we here people call a 'decent hour.'

/rizzn

Quote of the Entry: "Blood and bloody ashes!"

- super fast kel