new assignment: rue morgue

just got back to zielona góra, where i thought i'd have a chance to catch up on the primary project i was working before getting pulled in to work on that beijing-timed stuff.

but no. i barely got into the office this morning before derrick, my boss, calls me in. he's brilliant, and works his ass off; he's exactly the type that will be on the council himself someday, i'm sure. but on a personal level, he's basically a jerk. just completely unsympathetic and tactless, is all. you get used to it. or you get transferred, i guess.

anyway, with no preamble whatsoever, before i even finish sitting down, he says, 'you're going to media ops, celebrity division. you'll report to begner.' and then he just keeps poring over the papers on his desk, doesn't even say 'thanks' or 'that's all' or anything.

his assistant gave me the folder with all the details on my way out. there were copies in there of the review procedures for the scenarios i'd worked on over the last, what's it been? 30 months? he put some decent comments in there; nothing too glowing, but all true, at least. once he's a councilor, those will be nice to have in my file, no doubt about that.

so, media ops, celebrity division. or as it's more popularly known around the organization, the rue morgue. i guess begner was impressed with some of the work i did on the u.s. scientology people a couple years ago.

so long story short -- too late i know -- i'll be helping organize and plan some of the distracting and headline-stealing antics of your most-loved and/or most-hated celebrities. you'll see my work in everything from tabloids to vogue, from e!tv to the bbc. of course it won't all be me, the staff at the rue morgue is huge. but hopefully it won't be too long before they give me someone big & splashy. like paris, or britney, or brad, or becks.

unfortunately i have to leave poland, and only right after i got here. sigh. just boarded the rail europe train in wroclaw. i couldn't schedule a jet to paris until late tomorrow, so i figured i'd just slum it on reg transit. i'll meet some of my new coworkers in paris, which is as much of a central office as the celebrity division has, i hear. then on to new york, to meet begner.

maybe i'll see someone famous on the way, lol.