Liz: DAY ONE!!!

December 18th, 2009

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Hello there everyone,

Where do I even begin? Well you see, ever since the big VJ Search announcement, my life has been a hazy glorious dream. I can be seen pinching myself every once and a while because let’s face it…I can’t be a happier camper right now. Key questions/thoughts leading up to the big day: A) “holy batman, I’m no longer a student, I just got the best job ever.” B) “what do I wear?” C) “what do I bring for lunch (snack packs?)” D) “How do I get there?”

Day 1

Okay, its official, the subway ride still gets me excited. I know the novelty will wear off soon enough but for a small city kid from London, Ontario where the subway is non-existent, I love it. I definitely allowed an hour to get to work this morning to make sure I didn’t get lost and as a result show up late for my first day. Success: 15 mins early (which is on time).

Once I got to work, over a dozen immediate welcomes and friendly faces galore. So many names to know and I will be honest, I’m a face person, absolutely terrible with names-apologies in advance.

I then got directed to my brand new spankin’ desk: former VJ, Matte Babels, old desk and along with that desk comes a brand new spankin’ laptop. STOKED! Note: my new neighbour is Mister Jesse Giddings himself. Trouble in twos.

Immediately after setting up the laptop, I got my first pranking. I left my computer open without locking the screen and apparently when someone does that here, its rule of thumb to email a random message to the entire staff under that person’s name.

This is what the email “I” sent out consisted of:

Hi everyone!
I baked cupcakes!
Come and get em!
This is soooooo exciting!

Liz (The VJ search WINNER – oh ya!)

Special thanks to Tim Deegan, Jesse and Neil for pulling this little number on me. Sure enough people come asking me for cupcakes and unfortunately, I had none. Revenge is sweet and let the prank war begin.

After a day of fun/ administrative & orientation stuff I got to sit back and watch Jesse & Sarah do their thang on MuchOnDemand. So that was a brief wrap on Day 1 of this new VJ life, so amped for what comes next. Until then…

Over & Out

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