today was pretty awesome:
i was able to leave work at 1 to go to the job fair (but not before my team got free pizza at work from our supervisor at noon!).
talked with about a half-dozen organizations: DISA, national archives, VA’s office of IT, terpsys, and a few others as well.
went into DC to politics & prose and met john hodgman:
he was doing a tour for his new book “more information than you require”, and i had only found out about it a few hours before when i was still at work because i subscribe to his twitter; it was a pretty funny talk, and he was very nice and personalized everybody’s book. it was also very funny when we were making small-talk while he was signing, it went something like this…
john: “nice suit; do you model suits?”
me: “a little, heh. i took off of work early to go to a job fair today.”
john: “so what do you do when you’re not modeling suits?”
me: “i support cell phone accounts for the federal government.”
john: *mock horror* “YOU LISTEN TO MY PHONE CONVERSATIONS?!?”
me: “no! uh… i listen to your audiobook!”
john: “…WHEN I’M READING IT ON THE TELEPHONE?!?!”
and that was my day!