I started work on Monday; I believe I told you I got the job at ecreativeworks.  It’s pretty nice.  It’s a small company, which I like, can’t be more than 20 people.  You don’t get lost in the crowd.  As most of you probably know, this is my first “real” job.  Sure I did that work for Joel, but that was kind of “here’s some stuff for you do to, get it to me sometime.” That’s not to say I didn’t work hard because I certainly did, it was just a different feeling.    It’s been a lot, fast.  I feel as though I’m coming off as very awkward there, which I have a tendency to do around people I don’t know very well.  On my second day I got the task of assembling my new chair, which is nice because the one I had before was known office wide as the “fart chair” because whenever you sit in it, it makes the noise its name implies.  My new chair though is amazingly comfortable.

Here’s a picture of my desk.  Notice my Samsung LCD, its beautiful, and that means a lot coming from me, as I hate LCD’s.  Its only 1280x1024 but that’s livable.  Also notice the box of Earl Grey back there, which has recently become one of my favorite teas. 

This Eels song I’m listening to has the lyrics:

“
I don't leave the house much
I don't like being around people
Makes me nervous and weird
I don't like going to shows either
It's better for me to stay home
Some might think it means I hate people
But that's not quite right
”

That is me to a tee..  Maybe that’s why I love the Eels, or just E, so much. 

I love typography; it has always been a secret love of mine… I yearn for kerning?  Heh, excuse that completely pointless alliteration.  I took a graphic design class in eleventh grade, half the class was manual design, sketches, and typography, the other half was computerized.  I took the class for the computer portion, but found myself learning the most in the manual half.  Everyone but I seemed to find that portion pointless, but it just added fuel to my typography fire.  I have to say when I first heard about xhtml, rather than html 4.0, where you don’t use font tags, I was very skeptical.  Working with CSS I have grown to love it.  It makes so much so much simpler.  I don’t know how I ever thought styling every instance of something was a good idea. 

The relatively small amount of PHP I’ve done at work this week has actually vastly improved my knowledge of the language.  It’s involved a number of things I’ve touched on, but never really become too comfortable with, including associative arrays.  Man they really simplified a problem I was having with this admin page I was writing.  The thing you have to know about php, and the thing that I actually find somewhat irritating is that there is no correct way to write it, and often you find gigantic applications that are written  completely straight through, with everything global.  Its very very common for everything to be global in php, which is one of my biggest complaints.  It is also very rare in everything but the latest apps for classes to even be used.  Oasisband, my website which has a fairly large amount of ancient content, has something in the order of 5 functions for the entire website.  That’s going to be remedied eventually.  I had planned on working on the site some tonight actually, but I’m cold, and tired, and I think I’m just going to go to sleep.

Now that I’ve ranted about programming, which no one but me cares about do I have anything else to say?

I have a tendency to prefer writing these gigantic monthly posts as opposed to every day as things happen, and often times I forget the small things that might actually be interesting to write about.

Well, here is a description of my life last couple days…  Heh, I’m really short on things to write about.

Monday—Friday

• 5:45am Get woken up by my Mac Mini with the app “Awaken” Go to work.
• 7:30am (8:00 this Monday, I changed my hours)  Arive at work, do various tasks.
• 1:00pm Realize you’ve forgotten to eat, take lunch.  Go sit in conference room, eat sandwich, come back and dick around on the computer a bit to finish up the half an hour.
• 4:00pm Head for home
• 7:00pm Watch Various TV Shows
• 9:00pm Go to sleep (Except for Wednesday, in which case Medium is on, as I do love Patricia Arquette. She’s not quite Uma Thurman, who Paul can attest I believe to be the most beautiful woman on earth, but she’s up there.  A quick IMDB reveals the only thing they’ve done together is “The 62nd Annual Golden Globe Awards”)

I feel like I’ve got “Pauls Case” damn you, lit class.  Damn you to hell.  Introspection, you leave… now!
Bah, well here’s to us, who’s like us, damn few, and they’re all dead.

Try to get through to me. There may be something left.

Well I can't think of anything to do, its midnight on a thursday and I'm not at all tired, so I guess I'm going to write. I've been holding back my bitching because its not like me to post several times in the same month.

I feel like crap on several fields. I feel like crap because I'm sick, have been since Saturday night(Sunday morning really) when I got a headache so bad I couldn't sleep, and then sunday a fever thats come and gone a few times now. I feel like crap about some things that I did, and some things I didn't do that I should have. My friend Jeff says I'm thinking about it too much, and that too much introspection doesn't just lead to finding things you don't like but in-fact leads to making up things about your self not to like. This may be damn true. I guess thats what happens when a person has as much free time as I.

I've got too much time on my hands. This is definite. I called the company I applied to the other day and they informed me that the man responsible for hiring is out of contact, on a moose hunt in Alaska. I found this very odd.

Two years ago I was out of school, high-school, and everyone was gone like this. I forgot until recent weeks just how hard it was for me then. Jeff's been bitching at me to go up to Fargo with him, I don't know that I would want to / could.

How does someone go to a school for nearly two years and not make any friends... I digress.

Winters pretty much here already, how did that happen? I need to get a start on my annual Halloween illustration... Last years was somewhat disappointing and I'm hoping for something better this year. Any ideas for it I'd love to hear them. Here are some links to the previous two...

The first halloween image...  and the second...  I really havn't done much with my Wacom in a while, a bunch of sketches but other than that nothin'

I saw a friend from high school I haven't seen in a while on saturday. We watched some anime and talked. It was good to see him... I'm not sure if he reads my live journal any more, he used to... Are you reading this? I'm down to two people who actually even acknowledge the existence of live journal any more, meka_slorne and ketinara. If you're reading this and you're someone else, give me a shout out. Hell, give me a shout out if you're one of those two too, just for kicks and giggles. Well I guess it does get forwarded to my facebook page, but I get even less comments on there.

I've been watching a lot of TV lately, more than I should. I don't have cable here in Watertown, so its all broadcast.

• Prison Break:
• New season of Prison Break doesn't even deserve to be capitalized, thats how bad it is. This man who's supposed to be a genius faked his own death and then called the cell phone of his girl friend as if he had no idea it would be tapped. Gah.
  
• House
• House, do you watch House? House is good, new season started a little slow, but has been pretty good. I have not been disappointed.
  
• Men in Trees
• Men in Trees... my dad loves this show, its quite possibly the worst new show of the season. It features Anne Heche, the previous lover of Ellen DeGeneres if I'm not mistaken. After her marriage fails she decides to live in Alaska... It features a recurring raccoon which is obviously a dog in a raccoon suit, along with lots of other lame-ities... that should so be a word.
  
• The Office
• Lastly, tonight's new episode of the Office was just lame at best... It was awkward, and just not really funny.

I need typing gloves "Gloves to where whilst I type!" as I just told Jeff... to which he replied "they call those gloves" it is so cold down here in the basement it hurts to type.

Well this is a more full size post than my last couple...

As I've been ending a lot of letters lately:

Love and Kisses,
Jesse G. Donat