To Helsinki!

20 minutes until I leave for work. Ready ... steady ... KYA!

Thanks to the meeting of a certain MinneSODA-ian, I have little time for amusing multimedia items. Namely, web cam shorts, interactive graphics of the apartment and what sharp objects I need to duck tape before the puppy moves in (TOMORROW), as well as photos of the surrounding Camden countryside. I could complain. No more marathon reading. No more Dandy Warhol walks to the park and back. LATE NIGHT FEASTING.

But I'm the happiest I've been since I moved here. I finally feel like I belong in the Philly metro area - not because I'm street savvy or a shitty driver - but because I am no longer a hermit. I actually have plans Saturday night! (And Monday, Tuesday, yesterday, tonight.)

To add to my giddy dance: I'm finding a creative niche at work. Yesterday I spent 3/4 of my work hours piecing together a 30-second shot from about an hour of footage, adding video overlays, NAT sounds and delicious credit screens. The day before that I presented a Twitter proposal to my boss. This week I'm working with the cops reporter to plan a multimedia series on the local serial rapist/murderer. Next week I write up a report on social distribution and how newspapers can use it to their own ends.

Maybe these reports don't sound like the most interesting items to work on .... but after a month of simply updating the website... Gold.