Today was a day like most others. I woke up shortly before the alarm clock (which was kind of nice since lately my body has decided that 6:30 is perfect time to rise even though Salman Rushdie keeps me up late), ate some Peanut Butter Cheerios while making hate-y faces at Gayle King and apologizing …
For the last week or so, I’ve been working my ass off on updating my portfolio. If you don’t have a portfolio, just think of it like updating your resume only 382,183 times worse because you have to choose actual evidence of the stuff you say you can do. And that evidence? It all looks …
Yesterday was the second anniversary of getting laid off at my last “corporate” job (the quotes are because The Nerdery is anything but corporate). Can you believe I’ve gone two years without a real job? My goal initially way back in May 2009 was to make it through the summer. Here is is 2011 and …
This was the view from the desk at the Continuing Education building on the UofM campus in St. Paul. A few of the things I witnessed during the seventeen hours I was perched behind the desk volunteering for The Nerdery’s Overnight Website Challenge: Senator Al Franken walk by with a cadre of nerds tailing him. …
There’s a scene in “High Fidelity” where Rob and Laura are sitting at the kitchen table in his apartment. In front of her is a list of five jobs Rob would like to have if, “if qualifications and time and history and salary were no object.” His list includes things like producer for Atlantic records …
Today is my nephew Max’s birthday. He’s 12. It’s crazy because I remember when he turned four like it was yesterday. Despite all the familial heaviness we had a lot of fun at his birthday party last night. This is quite a testament to our resilience, because before the party began we spent a lot …
It’s 10:53 p.m. and I have just forced myself to stop working, but that’s only because I’m going to go to bed as soon as The Hold Steady stop singing on The Colbert Report. Today as I was preparing lunch to go with my daily “Roseanne” reruns I got excited because I had new peppercorns …
