There. It’s Done.
I’ve submitted a resume in print to Designski. (Oops—I hadn’t told you who they were yet, had I? Well, now you know.)
I printed out my two-page resume and a sheet of web design portfolio samples on my matte photo paper. I also composed a cover letter and printed it on normal paper, and designed return address labels. All of these things match my portfolio website—I’ve gotten compliments on my personal branding before, so I figure I may as well run with it. Uncle Frank liked it well enough… although he also liked the fact that I hand-cut my resume paper so it was half an inch narrower and two inches longer than the rest.
Yeah, it looks like Thread (formerly Image Source) is looking for an Interactive Designer. Too bad I don’t know Flash. One of these weekends, I should really go take one of the NISDM workshops while I still can. One never knows when they’ll decide to revoke the alumni discount… or when the organization will fold entirely.
I need some more “real” work under my belt. Sheryl, Dan, anyone else, if you have a web or design project you’d like to collaborate on, paid or no, let me know and maybe we can jive together and do some freelancing. I’m not confident enough to seek out freelance gigs on my own, but I’d be happy to do one with a buddy. The buddy system rocks.
:: yawn ::
Feeling kind of blah this evening. Not sure why. Figured writing about it might dissolve it some.
Normal day at work. I was on phones, which is always fun (*scoff*), especially while working on modifications, which I’ve only recently learned how to do. Ambivalence ran high today, broken only by a glimmering moment of appreciation when my supervisor recognized my two years of service with a Gotcha Card. And after I’d bitched on here about no one noticing, too.
I accompanied Aaron to Target this weekend so he could purchase some new clothes that actually fit: size 34 jeans, extra-large T-shirts and sweaters and jacket. I believe I now own his old size 40 jeans, for reference, and all his old XXL sweaters fit him like friggin’ dresses. Now he’s looking svelte in his new skinnier duds.
I bought myself a new pair of dress pants for work. Size 18—which is still big, sure, but it’s better than the 20’s and 22’s and (yikes!) 24’s that I had been wearing. It’s amazing how much better it feels to wear clothes that fit properly.
Visited Aaron’s grandarents in Lakewood (Cleveland) on Saturday afternoon. Poppa is doing well after his quadruple bypass surgery of a few months back, and says he’s going to buy us a chest freezer for a housewarming gift. That’s awesome, on both counts.
Planning to start reading the second Harry Potter book tonight before bed. Those books are like crack. I shouldn’t be reading them before bed—it tends to push back my bedtime to about 1:00am.
Not much else to report. I could probably go up and think about going to bed right now, if it weren’t so depressing to have watched my day slip by so fast. As it is, I’ll likely end up skulking at my computer for a while, then realizing how tired I really am and plodding up to bed. Or maybe I’ll read a magazine—that would be a little healthier than basking in the radioactive glow of my monitor.
Yeah.
Two Years of my Life
Today was my two-year anniversary of being a full-fledged Sky employee. I didn’t mention it to anyone, and HR certainly didn’t throw me a party. No Sky Financial candy dish, no extra weeks of vacation (yet). I am, however, 40% vested in my ESOP and profit-sharing money now, so my happy 401(k) doesn’t look quite so drastically different between the money that’s mine and not-mine-yet.
I know this is my cue to start my usual woe-is-me crap, but I just don’t feel like that today. I mean, I’m not thrilled to be working for Sky, and I certainly haven’t given up hope of finding something different and/or better, but I’m not unhappy, either. If I stick with Sky, I still have room to move up within the company. If I find something else, I have 2+ years of valuable financial/corporate experience.
It’s just my job. It’s not my life. I’m genuinely happy with my life, and only moderately ambivalent about my job.
Yeah, I’m doing OK. We’re doing OK.
Toys!
Thank you, Sky Bank, for all the toys you bought me with my $500 gift certificate to Amazon.com.
Thank you for the Epson Stylus Photo R200 printer and the Epson Matte paper and the Kodak Glossy paper. I’ve had lots of fun playing with my new printer, printing on the free 4×6 glossy paper included with the printer and the 8? x 11 matte paper, too. The printer’s nice and quiet, and prints a 4×6 color print in about two minutes. Later tonight, I plan on making a new driving mix CD (or maybe a third 90’s mix) and printing art on the disc, using the free printable CD-R included with the printer.
Thank you, also, for the new Carlo Robelli electric-acoustic guitar that arrived today after the printer. I tuned it this afternoon, and played with it some, but it needs time for the strings to stretch and adjust, being BRAND FREAKING NEW. I’ve never owned a brand new guitar before, and it’s pretty cool. Sure, I can tell that this is an inexpensive guitar (one might even say “cheap”), but I don’t mind. I’d actually feel silly if I’d blown my whole wad on a nicer guitar that I’d only play a couple times a week in my own basement, alone. Oh, and thanks also for the Musician’s Friend guitar stand, and the guitar strap I ordered today.
I’d also like to thank you for the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR 250 video capture card. That’s going to go into Aaron’s computer on Sunday sometime, since Saturday is devoted to visiting the grandparents in Lakewood, and I don’t want to try installing anything in his computer without him here. Of course, now he’ll probably have to spend some cash himself on a second hard drive for all this video media…
I think that’s it for now. Next week, though, I’ll be thanking you for the remainder of my toys: the guitar strap I mentioned above, the replacement black ink cartridge for the new printer (just thinking ahead), the printable CD-Rs and DVD-Rs, and two Best of the Muppet Show DVDs. The one with Mark Hamill I barely remember, being a Star Wars nerd at a young age, but I don’t remember much about the ones with Steve Martin or Gilda Radner. I’m looking forward to those.
Thank you again, Sky Bank, for giving me lots of cool stuff. Your benefits rock balls sometimes.