So, my new job at Wasser Studios seems to be going well after the first week. Of course I have to use Microsoft Word 2003, which is painful. Using Word after spending so much time with products like Adobe InDesign is like having a conversation with Martin Luther King Jr. about passive resistance and then having that same talk with G.W. Bush. In the end you can get it done, but boy-o-boy was it nicer with the smarter of the two. MS Word has the strength of a child body builder, more funny business than the Abbott and Costello Colgate Comedy Hour, and as many bugs as an entomologist. InDesign on the other hand has a learning curve but is more flexible, powerful, and far far less buggy.
Still I like my job and I like the people I am working with. Not only that but there is some weird pleasure in reformatting text, I attribute it to my German heritage, which is funny because wasser is German for water and the client I am working on is a German company.
I am bound to like my job much more at the end of next week, because that will be the first week I get paid (paychecks are always a week off).
Next: Finding an apartment in Seattle that is affordable and not a P.O.S. (G rated version: piece of stink). Or as I like to call it, the fantastic voyage. Or as the French like to call it “voyage fantastique.”
