I guess I really should include a section for my general updates since that’s what people tend to include in blogs anyway.

That said, this will be filed under “general” to reflect how I had a loooooong weekend.  And this isn’t because Lucas made it boring – quite the contrary, we stayed up late because of him, and for good reason.  It’s been a long time since I’ve been in the presence of highly erudite and esoteric pontification, and it’s always good to know exactly who is suited for this conversation.  It’s fine in a pair, but when Lucas joins a group, it becomes a forum.  Which is an awesome skill I hope he knows will be appreciated in years to come.  I should illustrate my point, but I’m at work and I don’t have a lot of time for that.

Other things: one of my good friends at my company took a better paying job, and though it’s awesome to see my peers move up in the world, it is very sad to see her go.  I hope she (you know who you are, Lauren) rocks the new job as much as she totally owned it here.

More things: I have new pants!  W00t!

Welcome welcome welcome, to my new blog. Thanks to the very socialist group, the (International) Noise Conspiracy for the title of this post. Because, really, everything that we know is up for sale.

This blog will detail the happenings of my life as a way to catalog personal growth I’ve experienced while working at my three jobs. So that means you’ll hear about:

• My freelance gigs: coding, design, aesthetics, experiments, tech/nerdy goodness
• My day job: marketing, business ethics and best practices, communication, rich media, online social networks
• My weekend job at the bar: the scattered and inconsistent world of LA underground music, booking, alcohol

All posts come with commentary, of course. Not your typical snarky commentary, however. I’m not a pop blog, so I don’t have a bone to pick with anyone.

Ok! Let’s get this show on the road…

Alright.  Now to skin this sucker.

Whilst at work, waiting for videos to convert from .MOV to .WMV and while moving large folders around in my work email, there becomes little I can do before I get to work on something else.

Ordinarily, I take this opportunity to step out for a smoke. But I’ve already done that. Twice.

And my existence, for a little while, is a series of progress bars. So here I am. Progressing. I guess.

I should note that I don’t think I’ve recovered from the weekend yet – and it’s not that I had a really busy weekend, it’s just that I think I’m still feeling the effects of Friday night. The coffee from this morning hasn’t yet had an effect, either. Or it had, and was fleeting. Either way, I think I’m in for more.

Oh, and Erin visited from Weds to Saturday morning, and the time I got to spend with her was immense fun. I firmly believe that it is important that I have people like her around me; people who like to smile, can complain without whining, can employ sarcasm without sounding indignant, can elaborate on topics without preaching, and can do one thing I seem to find incredibly rare in others around me: Erin can remove me from my self-absorbed, self-doubting, narcissistic, pity-fishing, self, and put my mind on some other track. And she doesn’t even try to do this, it just happens. Few people in my life have this aura, and I can count them on one hand. I knew there was a reason I missed her.

Of course, this isn’t to say my other friends are not special in different ways. :)

Hm. Back to thinking about work and freelance. I’m excited about my mediatemple account getting activated. I’m not looking forward to moving files and redirecting domains.

Oh, I also have an interesting new freelance project coming up — seems to be an installation art piece that is going to go up on the web. I wonder how this will go?