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name Tim C Hose
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birthday 03.27.81

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Tuesday, June 28, 2005

So I am driving down the road past this assisted living place, when I see an old man on a motorized scooter pull up to the road, stop, and throw out a left-turn signal.
It kind of freaked me out a little, I have to admit.
Quick like a bunny, I got the phone number to the place, call them, and have this charming little conversation.
"Whatever assisted living, can I help you?"
I say, "Yes, I was just driving by and saw one of your residents getting ready to ride his motorized chair out into traffic."
There was a pause on the other end.
"Sir, you do know this is an assisted living facility, correct? We aren't responsible for our residents. Some of them like to ride their carts to Wal-Mart." She says to me, as if I were totally retarded for being concerned about this dude's welfare.
Keeping chipper, I retort "Yes I know, but he just pulled out into the road..."
"Oh!" She exclaimed, "He does that all the time! Scares the daylights out of me, but I guess he gets home okay!"
I was dumbfounded.
"Well, thanks for taking care of that, ma'am." I said a little bit too sarcastically.
"No problem, dear. He should be along around sunset, I imagine."

Yeeeah.

Anybody ever feel like they're living in a Douglas Adams novel?

Sheesh.

TimChose [ 12:35 PM ]

Wednesday, June 22, 2005

So, I have a pretty sweet deal for the next month of my life.

Going to church rocks.

I get to meet people who want me to house-sit. Yep, house-sit. This couple from my church is going on a one month vacation, and they want me to live at their house for that month. I thought about it for a little while, and said yes as quickly as I could.
You see, right now I live with a monk. Ha ha, I know, but he really is a Benedictine monk. That sounds kind of cool, until you realize that he wakes up at 4am every morning to pray, and that I can't really have friends over to visit. Especially if they are girls. My pastor is afraid of what the neighbors might think.
No joke.
Okay, so I'm excited to be getting out for a month just to have my own space where I can be alone. It's going to rock.
But the deal gets sweeter.
The couple has also offered to pay me.
Also, they are shopping to stock their freezer and fridge for me with lots of food before they leave.
Also, they have a Playstation 2, and a GameCube.
Also, the dish network.
Also, no pets to take care of, they are being boarded.
Oh, and last but not least....

Ready?

They are having a brand new seven person hot tub installed this week. I will get to be literally the first person in this sucker.
Yep.
Oh, and they think it would be cool if I grilled.

Go to church, suckers!
Muaa haaa haaaaaa haaa!

TimChose [ 11:17 PM ]

Monday, June 20, 2005

So... Did we all just quit, or what?
I guess it's the rigamarole of the job market and lifestyle, but it seems like everybody stopped blogging on the same day.

Freeeeaky!

Well heck! I'm updating, fools! My job rocks! Still! I'm getting more and more responsability as the first day of the second week kicked off today. Today I was thick and furious emailing to the NY and Chicago offices nonstop, all the while trying to get materials that I had created approved, figure out what we're designing in the teacher manuals, researching ISBN numbers and barcodes, and contacting publishing houses trying to get the phattest deals that I can on huge numbers of books. Yeah, I spent hours on the phone today talking to sales reps from all around the country, and even one in London.
I'm super happy.

Oh, and Batman Begins rocked my socks off. If you want any kind of testosterone rush, you should see it and revel in the manliness that is Batman. Yeeeees.

Okay, I updated, now do the same!
Love ya guys.

TimChose [ 8:59 PM ]

Tuesday, June 14, 2005

That's right. An avatar. The avatar of InDesign, to be specific.

My new job rocks. Like Aerosmith, or something.

Okay, so I got to work Monday and everybody was really nice, checking out the new guy and all. We got to work setting up my little office space. It's not so much a cubicle, or area, or zone, or even an office, but it is instead a showroom for the monster computer that sittith within the confines of it's walls.
My computer. It's nuts. A dual 2.7 Gig G5 Power Mac with 1.5 Gigs of ram, a 250 gig hard drive, superdrive, an insane graphics card, and a 20 inch cinema display screen. I went and built the thing on apple just to see, and it was over 4,000 dollars.

I almost peed a little.

So that was pretty much day one. I filled out forms, set up my little work space, and then my boss filled me in on all of the different aspects of my job. It's actually a pretty awesome opportunity for me, because it's an entire Pre-Kintergarden learning program, and I get to be in on every single aspect of it from helping buy and research stock photography, layout of the art and teacher guides, books, and other stuff. Then, after all of my design frenzy, I am also in charge of the printing and processing of the entire project, from planners to posters to puppets and bilingual versions of the sing along CDs. It's an enormous project, and everybody's really excited about it. They said that top educators from around America have been hearing about it, and are panting to buy it, so I've got to have the quotes on printing prices for runs from 5-10,000 pretty soon, and then inform the Chicago and New York offices of the updates to the project and prices on an almost daily basis.

I'm nervous.

I'm excited,

Also, I'm going to be the physical embodiment of all that is InDesign.
That was day number two. I spent eight hours today doing InDesign tutorials, and I'm only a fourth of the way through. I'm still bashing my way through the typography and layout sections, and let me tell you...

InDesign is a beast! A lovely, sexy beast.

After/along with this I get to conquer Excel. There's a lot more to that little dude than I though!

Okay. Enough boasting. Sorry, sorry, but I'm really happy about the job. My family doesn't come from any money at all, so for me to have a career, and to be able to help them out while taking care of myself is such an amazing thing that I can't even describe it. Soooo, I won't, just right now. But it's awesome.
So good night, all!

Goal of the week Go see Batman Begins. Hopefully in an iMax theatre.

TimChose [ 9:01 PM ]

Wednesday, June 08, 2005

Yes. I have achieved jobdom.
It went down thusly. I was working the summer feeding program today, and the lady called me from Rainbow. She told me that they were very impressed with me at the interview, and wanted to hire me. They were impressed with me professionally and knew that I would do a great job, she said.
The funny part?
Remember how I said that I would rely on my personality to get the job for me, as a joke? Nope, that worked. For real. She said that they weighed personality very heavily in the interview process, and that I seemed like I would fit in very well with them. She actually told me that they had intervewed four more people after me, but kept looking at each other after they left and saying, "Tim was so much of a cooler guy."
Can you guess how awesome that made me feel?
Yeah...
So! The perks?
*Basic graphic designer starting salary, no billions of bucks floating out of the sky, but that's cool, I am making more money than I have ever in my life.
*401k
*Extremely good benefits and insurance
*Paid vacation that accumulates
*My very own office, and

Ready, Daniel?

*A brand new G5 Mac to work on. They just took it out of the box for me yesterday.

Bwaa haa haaaaaa!
I smiled for the rest of the day. I'm still smiling!
So now I start training Monday to get up to speed on everything that's happening at the job, they're giving me some heavy duty InDesign training, (On my new Mac! With it's new programs!) and I will be the sole printing coordinator, and one of the graphic designers. That means that not only will I design my little heart out, but I will be the only guy having printers court me and in charge of the printing going on. Ooooh the experience-gaining bliss!
Basic message of the night? I'm a happy dude.
Oh, and I love Kendra Coggins. I wouldn't have a fart's chance on a windy day of getting a job like this if she hadn't swept into our lives.
Here's raising a glass to Kendra, all.
Heh, Kendra and my dominating personality.
8^)

TimChose [ 7:44 PM ]

Saturday, June 04, 2005

Okay, so I pop open yea old email today, and this is the first message I see.

Hi Tim!

I just wanted to let you know that I will be in touch with you next
Thursday to talk about possibly coming to work for us.
We were both very pleased with you. I know that you would do
an awesome job for us in addition to fitting well (personality wise) on
our team.

I have to go on a business trip Monday and Tuesday. I'll be back
Wednesday, but it may be Thursday before I can give you a call.

I'm looking forward to talking to you.

Have a great weekend!

Rainbow Educational Concept, Inc.

Ahhhh!
So, I'm a happy little dude. Trying not to get too far ahead of myself, because no formal job offer has been made yet, but they sound really happy about me, so...
Excited!

TimChose [ 4:35 PM ]

Thursday, June 02, 2005

Okay, so yesterday I took some extra resumes over to Rainbow because they told me that they needed more. The lady went "Hey Tim!" when I came in the door, so I took that as a good sign that I was pretty memorable.
Of course, that could have been from my tabletop dance that I did just to make sure they knew the "real me."
Not really.
But it was sweet that she remembered, and told me that they would be calling me this next week. Now it's just down to me waiting and waiting.
It's cool, though, because I have a lot to keep myself occupied with. The summer feeding program has started at my church, and on the first day we fed 106 people! Rock, eh? I'm going to feel like a total jerk when I finally have to quit that job. Not that I'll stop serving food and stuff, but still.
Okay, it's time for my youth meeting, so I'm out.

*life goal #4 - Make Tribble giggle.

TimChose [ 2:29 PM ]