sitting here in computer class . . . i like this class not only because it’s more fun and interesting than my other classes, but i can sit here and read and write weblog stuff during the lecture. i can do it without losing track of what’s going on too, so it’s a nice side project to help me get through the three action-packed hours of this one class. right now, we’re talking about making a pong game in macromedia director. watch out world, i’m taking these skills into the job market in just over a year and a half — prepare for some fierce competition!

potential employer: “well, there are about a hundred other people applying for this exciting as well as very lucrative and satisfying position . . . what makes you stand apart from them?”

brian: “did you by chance pop in the cd i included with my resume? it has a pong game that i built in director. as well as some other cheesy examples that i certainly know my way around a computer.”

potential employter (putting in cd, playing game): “wow! this is neat!” (mumbles, trailing off, absorbed in game . . .)

brian: “i’ll take that as a ‘you’re hired’. see you next week in my 32nd floor corner office with reclining, spinning leather deskchair!”

note: some credit is due to new topography, whose fictional conversations always make me laugh out loud.