Stolen Weekend

July 28, 2003 D. H. McKee

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My weekend was stolen from me. I carry a pager for work, and I got paged last Wed. and ended up working until about 2:30am on this critical issue for some nameless (brainless) company. They then required me to stay with them, holding their hand, chewing their meat for them, over the entire weekend. I got very little sleep, and by the end of it, had very little patience for them. Suddenly everything was a critical issue, and they got spooked by every single log file that was created. To top it all off, they didn’t even have 24/7 support. Management’s treating them like a strategic account, so I’m not getting paid anything extra for those 36 hours stripped from my life. If I whine, maybe I can get a couple of days in lieu. One can only hope.

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As a guy who occasionally curates art shows and wrangles artists together, I often have to edit and post artist bios, profile pictures, and artwork images. This can be a problem, since many artists and writers aren’t used to selling themselves. Artists rarely know how to present their art for display in a brochure, and writers aren’t used to writing about themselves.

Writers often treat the bio like it’s an interview or something. Maybe like they’re having a conversation with you, the reader. While it may work sometimes, the most common way to write a bio is to write in the 3rd person.

I’m like those writers, and I’m talking to you directly, unlike the common way to do a bio. You should see my About page. It makes sense to me, since this is a bit which describes my blog’s website. When I get famous enough that I don’t have time to talk to you, I’ll have an intern write everything in 3rd person. Until then, you get to talk to me.

Like blogs of old, this one is a personal document of the comings and goings of me. Articles I’ve written, links I’ve posted, videos I liked, etc. Here, a first-person perspective is the way to go, at least for now. So, this is my site. I’m D. H. McKee, a sometimes artist, sometimes writer. Mostly just a guy on the internet.