New Job!

I had this big plan to write a blog yesterday about my shitty day. Then I decided I was feeling too bad and didn’t want to do anything but curl up on the couch with a fuzzy blanket and pass out for the rest of the afternoon.  Fortunately everything worked out and today is far better.

Tomorrow I start working for Northwest Cable News as a writer!  I applied for this job originally back in November and hoped desperately that the gentleman doing the interviews would remember me from school and be as impressed with me as he was then.  Fortunately he did and was – unfortunately I was choice number two and number one got the job.

They were kind enough, however, to pass my information along downstairs to KING 5 when they were looking for a teleprompter operator and I was called up unexpectedly for an interview that turned out to be more or less a “if you want it it’s yours” kind of thing.

I’d been there for maybe five or six weeks when NWCN called me back and said the guy they’d hired originally had turned in his two weeks to go and write for the Olympics and that the job was mine if I was still interested.  It wasn’t a difficult decision, but I’d fallen in love with working on the desk for KING and listening to all the scanners and yelling across the newsroom at each other.  NWCN is a much more compact and streamlined deal, not to mention quiet.  I officially accepted and have been sitting around since waiting for a start date.

I got a call this morning informing me that TODAY was their planned start date for me, and I had to explain that I’d been sitting around stressing about finances and waiting on pins and needles for this job to start.  Turns out the guy in charge of telling me when I was starting had forgotten and all was well.  But as a result, I get to start writing tomorrow!

The schedule is going to be a giant pain in the ass, and it’s not even 30 hours, but it pays well and will eventually be a full time job.  I’ll have to learn to sleep in four hour shifts or else I’ll never see anyone ever again.  As much as I love working in media, sometimes I wish that news only happened between 9 and 5.

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Tonight the plan is for Joe to take me to my first ever CLAW (Cartoonist’s League of Absurd Washingtonians) Open Swim where I will sit there and hang out with people and likely be embarassed at my complete lack of skill.  It’s at the Mandolin Cafe, though, so if all else fails I can just drink coffe non-stop and look like I’m doing something.

There’s also leftover Chili for dinner that I made last night and was pretty proud of.  The cornbread turned out to be shit but thats what you get for buying a $1.25 mix.  Someday I will learn to make it from scratch!

In the mean time, there’s no new news on the apartment front – we’re just waiting for my lease to be up and the apartment to be done being refinished. But I guess I can post pictures from the web listing!  It’s beautiful and I can’t wait to move in and make it my own. Ours? Something like that.

Double living room and original hardwood flooring.

Large kitchen complete with pantry and dishwasher.