elfs | Two interviews today, and I'm wiped out.

I had two job interviews today. The first was with an advertising agency that is putting together a very rapid development site for one of their clients, and needs someone who can write Django fast enough to wrangle together all of the details of of a couple of inbound feeds into displayable objects. It's all back-end stuff, no GIMP-Fu needed sad to say, but it's definitely among the high-water of the kinds of development I do well and would like to be doing. And they seemed to like me.

The other interview-- not so much. Although I read the job description and it seemed to say "Web Developer Wanted," and they read my resume which screames web developer and thought I was a good fit for the role, what they really wanted was a marketer and marketing manager who specialized in search engine optimization and cross-site promotion, rather than a Rails developer.

Funny story: I've already worked for this guy. In 1993. I was temping at the time, and he needed a bunch of data entry people for an emergency calculation over a fraud case they were tracking. Very strange.

I got home and there was a box on the doorstep! I took it inside and eagerly anticipated assembling my new fan into my old laptop-- only to see, after it was open, that this was the replacement paring knife from OXO for the one we'd broken a few weeks ago. Ah, well.

And now I am completely exhausted. I'm going to take a nap.