{"id":5472,"date":"2010-11-18T20:56:04","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T01:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.net\/?p=5472"},"modified":"2010-11-18T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T01:56:04","slug":"on-my-life-as-a-reality-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.allyngibson.com\/?p=5472","title":{"rendered":"On My Life, As a Reality Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some people are public. Some people are private. I'm a private person. I couldn't imagine myself as a star of a reality television series; besides the feeling that my life really isn't<\/i> that interesting (sorry, not all writers lead Hemingway-esque lives, though I would settle for a Fitzgerald-ian life), even blogging<\/a> skirts the level of self-sharing that I'm comfortable with.<\/p>\n

Yet!<\/p>\n

If I were, hypothetically speaking, to have a reality show, I know would its title would be. I have it written down.<\/p>\n

Dispatches From the Annals of Awesome<\/b><\/p>\n

I have a fantastically<\/i> awesome job — and no<\/i>, I'm not going to say what it is, though it is something of an open secret. I work in a neat place where witty things are said, cool things are discussed, and nerdity rules the day.<\/p>\n

Yes, it can be mundane — I wrote 6,500 words today and my brain melted a little from every single one — and yes, it can be silly, and yes, it can absolutely<\/i> be overworked, but let's be honest. Every<\/i> job is like that. Mine is no different in that regard. But that doesn't make it any less a chapter in the "Annals of Awesome." It's something that, oh, G4 would love<\/i> to chronicle. Guaranteed. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

And no, I'm not entirely sure where "Dispatches from the Annals of Awesome" came from. It's scribbled on a sheet of notebook paper on the clipboard I carry in my bag each day, along with some Depeche Mode lyrics (specifically from "Enjoy the Silence"), so I figure about six weeks back I wrote that out, probably because it was a sudden brainwave and I knew that someday, somehow, I would use that as a title.<\/p>\n

And now I have.<\/p>\n

Dispatches from the Annals of Awesome.<\/p>\n

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