Launched!
I don’t normally talk about work on this site because that would be breaking one of the cardinal rules of blogging, and not getting dooced is always high on my annual to-do list.
But today is launch day, and for this project, on which I’ve worked for the better part of a year, for which I have of late given up my nights and weekends, my dinner parties, movie viewings, and other such shindigs, I’m going to make an exception. The product may not be perfect, but there’s still something so exhilarating about actually going live, in public, where the entire Internet can see it, that I want to say in all capital letters, LOOK WHAT I DID. Me and about a hundred other people, anyway.
Around lunchtime I took a semi-enforced break from post-launch issues to do a recruitment video. They sent me through makeup, and then I answered questions very badly for twenty minutes, pretty much guaranteeing that 99.9 percent of my footage will end up on the cutting room floor. The makeup lady was super-friendly, though, and she did the best “daytime” makeup that I’ve ever had; it’s light and barely noticeable, so I look like I don’t need Maybelline ’cause I’m just born with it.
I wanted to go shopping on the way home because I need a few things before we leave for India and because I just wanted to, but I ended up leaving work a little later than expected, which meant I’d miss maghrib and get stuck in horrible rainy-day rush-hour traffic if I went… so tomorrow, maybe. I should probably get some sleep tonight anyway, considering I woke up half a dozen times last night, worried that I’d overslept and was late for work, and for the launch.
Updated: They like us! They really like us!