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November 30, 2005
Second First Real Job Ever...
...or would it be "first second real job ever?" Either way, I was offered a job at Allied Insurance in Des Moines yesterday, and I accepted it today. Starting December 19th, I will be an Administrative Support Coordinator in the Marketing department. Not my dream job, but it will pay the bills. And allow me to move back to Ames! Again!
I heard a rumor that some people have been car pooling to Des Moines for work. If this is the case, I would love to get in on that.
Also, I'm going to be looking for an apartment again. If anyone without a cat needs a roommate, let me know.
Posted by Megan at 04:10 PM | Comments (4)
November 07, 2005
Running Out of Internet
Today had to be about 98% surfing and 2% work. If there were an actual page that loaded when a person had covered the whole thing that said, "You have reached the end of the internet," I would have seen it today.
Extra-curricular tasks accomplished in my spare time:
4 games of minesweeper
3 games of solitare
7 e-mails sent to people with whom I've been neglecting keeping in touch
3 job sites searched
1 job applied for on-line
Read all of CNN.com
Read OpinionJournal.com's new articles, including Best of the Web Today
6 blogs checked for updates
2 fast food and 3 coffee shop websites searched for locations in the area of my job.
1 new blog written.
And a partridge in a pear tree.
Posted by Megan at 05:29 PM | Comments (2)
November 04, 2005
Paid to Surf
Quote of the Day/Week/Month:
"Play on the internet until I figure something out (for you to do)." -My boss.
...Oh yeah, I'm working temp jobs now until I find something better.
Posted by Megan at 11:27 AM | Comments (4)
November 03, 2005
Noonan on Blogs
Peggy Noonan makes some astute observations on blogs in her latest article:
With most of the thinking people in America--most of those who respond to and have thoughts on what is happening politically--on the Internet, there is a great deal of discussion on all issues. The barbaric yawp is all over the place and it's colorful, sharp and funny, sometimes dumb and sometimes rather dark and disturbed. The Internet is quick as mercury and anonymous if you want it to be. People post things they wouldn't necessarily want their names on; they say things they wouldn't necessarily want to defend to their colleagues, friends and neighbors.
That people sometimes do this on impulse, after perhaps the third Grey Goose, leads to and I think encourages a certain polarity in our discourse. It leads to heightened drama, heightened language and extreme thinking. Unpondered thoughts are put forward in unmediated language. Fine--this is all part of the fun--but it is not without implications.
I have noticed that our pundits--our columnists and speakers on TV, our known voices on the Internet, our bloggers and compulsive thought-sharers--have begun to heighten their own tones, express their thoughts more extremely and dramatically, just to break through the clutter. And make an impression. And compete. They have to compete--the Net isn't going away and the Net is free. If you're paid for opinions, they'd better break through. The Internet ups the ante on everything.
Posted by Megan at 10:53 AM | Comments (0)