29 January 2008; 03:12 PM
things i found while cleaning out my office at EFF
it's my last week as webmaster for the EFF. after over three years here, it's time for me to move on to freelancing and other projects. it totally pains me, since working at the EFF is basically totally amazing, and i love my coworkers so much. but, i have been itching to work on some other types of web projects, and use the drupal chops and other www skillz i learned at EFF to go forth and help other nonprofits. plus after three years of consistent EFFing i look forward to some unstructured boho freelance lifestyle. i am definitely going to miss it, though.
i'm packing up my office and i've found all manner of detritus describing the last three years, both personal and EFF-related:
- various color printouts of kittens doing cute things, gifts from our sysadmin greg during stressful times.
- huge 100 page print out of the plone manual, from when we were thinking we might use plone for eff.org. mad times. tossed it.
- post-it note with a very estranged friend's birthtime on it, from before the estrangement when i read her chart.
- a cap oliver's dad gave me when i was visiting their cottage on the shore of lake michigan. it's weird that was even in my office. it's because i left it in the back bedroom of pete & urcella's place in new york after a michigan->newyork trip, and urcella mailed it to me at the office.
- a diesel sweeties emoticon t that i totally forgot i ordered years ago, and has always been too big.
- stacks of folders full of tax shit and medical bills, records of the two main tangible-world challenges of my 20s: tax debt and fibroid surgery.
- bunch of unused "webmaster" business cards that somehow happened to me after I avoided getting EFF business cards for like 2.5 years.
- random pieces of PVC pipe from an aborted burning man project.
- lots of postcards that were sent to me when i begged for them, and rock posters that i bought during noisepop 2005.
- the business card heathen left for me when she was officially stalking me.
- pair of wings i made a long time ago. have no idea how they ended up here.
- two copies of Other magazine, one of which has a brief article by me about heathen stalking me.
- shelley's owl & sutro tower painting which i'm going to be glad to bring home and put up by my desk.
