November!
It wasn't long ago that I had nearly nothing to do other than grind through the depressing tedium of a fruitless job seach. Alas, no more. My November became miraculously booked in the course of about two days, and one of the things I need to do will (probably, hopefully) involve starting a new job I've wanted for a long, long time. I won't discuss it further, as it seems like bad luck to blog about a job you haven't actually gotten yet.
But one thing that is confirmed is that I'll be spending ten days at the Denver Film Festival helping the team from Spout.com make video podcasts of the various goings on.
I. Am. Pumped.
It should be a great experience. If you haven't checked out Spout, you really should. Also, I believe the content I'll be helping produce will be posted here. I'll probably put some stuff up here too, if I have time.
On an unrelated note, I'm really excited about the November BLOG challenge that has been issued to talk about our respective neighborhoods. Unfortunately, I don't have enough time to go get a lot of good pictures of my neighborhood, but it's pretty grey out there anyway. I will say a few things, and maybe I'll add more later:
Me and my wife (and our dog Ruby) live on the 600 block of Fountain, which is in Midtown.
I found this informative website that gives lots of stats about the area, including demographic shifts of last several years.
A few features of my neighborhood that most G-RADers are probably very familiar with are NEST, Martha's Vineyard, and Nantucket Bakery, all a short walk north on Union. Nantucket has fantastic pizza, but it's a bit salty.
Midtown is interesting because the neighborhood itself is divided into smaller sections. We live in "The Woods" according to a sign on a telephone pole across the street. The names of the other areas can be found engraved on the brand new Midtown sign they installed at The Midtown Green, on the corner of Fountain and Eastern. The Green, as we like to call it, is a great place to run the dog, fly a kite, or play a game of bocce ball. Kelly and I are currently undefeated in bocce ball on the Green, our home court.
A note on Fountain Street: sometimes people drive too fast. Please do not do this! A few weeks ago I was taking Ruby out on her leash and she was barking like crazy, as usual. A little dog named Jack, who lived across the street, heard Ruby and escaped from his fence to come greet her. It was rush hour and poor little Jack was run over by a fast car right in front of our eyes. It was truly horrific, and the guy didn't even stop. I had to wash a large blood stain from the road with a few buckets of water.
Sorry if that's morbid. But I'm sure all neighborhoods have stories like this, some much worse.
oh man! that is terrible!!
truly terrible.
I fully agree with the speeding on Fountain, as I take my dog on a walk down that street nearly every evening.
Just last night I was on Union right near Lyon and a dog came running across the street and was about 3 feet away from getting smashed by a speeding car. It was a big greyhound...it would've been bad. One way streets do not equal no speed limit.
My dog poops on the Midtown Green every day. I'll be sad when they finally take that trash (poop) can away.
one time i was outside of chicago and almost hit a whole group of puppies. they were playing on the curb, so i slowed down because i knew they might jump into the road at any moment. sure enough, a couple of them were playing and just tumbled out in front of my car. i slammed on my breaks, and they jumped back onto the grass. i thought i was going to have a heart attack.