HIRED!

After two-and-a-half years of shiftlessness and freelancing and debt, I'll be starting a full-time job this coming Monday. It's a small company that develops newsletters, reports, and suchlike for various federal agencies, and I'm going on board as a writer and editor. I expect that the writing will be on the dry side, to put it mildly, but I'm actually looking forward to that . My last full-time job was as a writer for a consumer-electronics website, where they recognized my creative flair pretty early on -- and let me tell you, it could be a fuckin' drag trying to think of inventive, funny stuff to say about the latest news in digital cameras or MP3 piracy or DVD players, week after week, for two years. So it'll be a nice change to work with unadorned, pedestrian prose at the office, and save the creativity for the writing I do on the side. (Like this blog, obviously.)

Incidentally, I am blogging from a workstation at a temp assignment that I'm finishing up this week -- financial proofreading, third-shift, 11pm to 7am. The guy at the adjacent workstation is kinda cute...