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.