Oh, golly Darlene, it's here!
The first issue of...
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Wendy News
July 23, 1998
Issue #1
Uh, you just said that.
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What's in Here:
o Here We Go
o This New Job
o Book Recommendation
o I Just Realized
o Really Official Credits
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Here We Go
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Give a yell! Written from the comfort of my own little
apartment, I've set up to write this newsletter with a used
Mac (thanks, Mark!), a new 56.6 modem, and a FREE e-mail
account with a new domain and database service, given to me
out of the goodness of one reader's heart (thanks, James!).
How about that.
Sorry for the delay. It's been an eye-opening two weeks. I
had no idea how I was going to get a computer, set up on the
Internet, collect all your e-mail addresses, then SEND you
guys the newsletter... well, it seemed like an almost
impossible task. It took time, but I asked lots of
questions, got some people to help me, and most of all,
people CAME out of the woodwork to help me. And most of
these people were complete strangers -- well, readers of the
newsletter.
So not only do I want to thank you guys for that, I also
want to thank you for the countless nice notes I got. A
couple of people even wrote snippy e-mails to my old boss
(awww!). But I do have to set the record straight -- I
wasn't fired or anything. I left on my own accord. They
decided afterwards to not continue the newsletter (I was
doing it freelance for those last few issues), but that was
THEIR decision, no matter what I might think of it. And lots
of great things came out of it, anyway: I get to do my own
newsletter and say ANYTHING I want. Heh heh.
By the way, 938 of you signed up for this newsletter -- not
too shabby! It's a small percentage of the 30,000 I used to
have, but it's the QUALITY percentage, baby!
All-righty. On with the show.
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This New Job
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Hm. What can I say about my new job. It's interesting. I've
been there for about five weeks now. I'm not crazy about my
boss, but I pretty much like everyone else that I work with.
I actually just had kind of a bad day today, so I don't
think I want to talk about work right now. One of those days
when people throw something at you and want it done RIGHT
NOW and then get mad when it actually takes time to do and
blame you for it being late. Sound familiar? Sigh.
There are only four women, including me, at this new job.
(The rest are aliens and men.) Three of us are single, and
the other woman is married. The weird thing about that is I
know everything about this woman's relationship with her
husband -- how they met, how they started dating, how they
got married, how their marriage is going now -- but I have
no idea what the guy's name is. She always refers to him as
"my husband." It never occurred to me to ask what his name
was. But at some point I realized that I didn't know this
man's name.
I went on a business trip with some of my coworkers, which
is when I got to know all about this woman and "her
husband." I also got to see my boss get drunk every night
and take the boy coworkers to strip clubs and pay for their
lap dances. Am I getting sick of working for other people?
The answer is yes.
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Book Recommendation
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I just got done reading "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty
Smith. I read it every few years, which mean this was
probably around my sixth read. It's an old book, written in
1943. It's about a girl named Francie growing up in Brooklyn
in the early 1900's with her charming but drunk father, her
strong, holds-everything-together mother, and her younger
brother. Aw, heck. Maybe it's a chick book. But I sure do
love it.
Francie and her family are VERY poor, and I swear, half the
book is descriptions of every day life, including all the
ways to pinch a penny and make a penny. There are also
stories of the family history, and the different eccentric
relatives that Francie has. Francie is very smart and wants
to be a writer when she grows up, and I suspect the author
must have had a lot of Francie in her, because the details
of this girl's mind are just too good.
The book has happiness as well as sadness, and there were at
least ten chapters that left me choked up (I am really such
a sap) and saying out loud to no one but my kitties, "God I
love this book!" I can't explain it much better than that.
Just start reading it. You'll see.
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I Just Realized
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I was deciding whether to put a Letters to the Editor in
this episode when I realized in like three seconds that a
big reason I had letters in that OTHER newsletter was to put
in nice things people said about it, hoping my boss and the
powers-that-be would see it and appreciate the newsletter.
Which they kind of didn't. They liked it enough, but the
truth was, it didn't bring in any money, and there weren't
THAT many people reading (they had cancelled games with much
more players than the number I had).
So what a load off! I don't have to put in letters anymore
-- well, I'll probably do it if something really interesting
comes in, but I don't have to prove anything to anyone this
time. Yum.
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Really Official Credits!
Editor, Writer, All Things to All People: Wendy Hall
To write to Wendy, send the gal an e-mail at:
hall_wendy@hotmail.com
To visit Wendy's website, go to:
http://geocities.datacellar.net/soho/studios/1232 -- this long,
torturous URL will be changing shortly to www.wendyhall.com.
Oh, what heaven it will be!
"Wendy News" is a Girl Planet Production. Copyright 1998,
All Rights Reserved. Any stealing, cheating, backstabbing,
and duplication without permission from Wendy Hall will
result in Girl Planet Productions hunting you down and suing
your weasel butt.
To be continued...
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