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Wednesday, July 28, 2004

So, I got to thinking, people ask us what's different here in DC and what life is like -- I thought I'd blog a typical day.

5:30 am -- Alarm. Snooze.
5:35 am -- Time for Kellie to feed Eli, so I get out of bed and into the shower.
6:30 am -- Kellie and Eli drive me to the bus stop. I wait in line for the next 905 to pick up the commuters and truck us through traffic into DC.
6:37 am -- I board the 905, pull out a book and sit back for the direct ride into the city.
7:28 am -- The streets seem busy in the city by this time. I'm off the bus and down the escalator to Metro's Orange Line at L'Enfant Plaza (the central hub for the Metro line).
7:50 am -- Off the Metro at Ballston and walking 3 blocks to the IJM office. Traffic is a mess on Wilson BLVD heading West on I-66 and I'm thankful that I don't have to deal with the other drivers, stop lights, and bottlenecks.
7:55 am -- Start a pot of coffee and get settled, check email, gear up on the latest Project Requests.
9:31 am -- Finished working on a couple projects, an HTML email and a Save The Date, checking on some approvals for other projects going through. Security is a huge concern here and projects have to be cleared through many departments to protect victims, IJM Operatives and any international relations that may be "touchy."
1:44 pm -- For lunch it was leftover baked ziti, pretzels and the remainder of my applesauce. I checked on my mom's flight during lunch and continued prepping files for press. Then, I uploaded the files to our printer's server and just waiting final approval. I made some calls about a missing package containing paper samples, and then relayed all pertinant information to jobs ready for print to Emily since I will be out tomorrow and Friday. It seems that mots jobs coming through here end up being a rush-job by the time we send them to pre-press. I spent a bit of time this morning troubleshooting the CSS Dropdown Navigation on our site and I think I'm going to have a slight redesign to move the navigation. It just doesn't work stable over the flash element in different browsers, and I don't have the time to make it work. The rest of the day I'll try to wrap up projects and schedule the HTML emails.