Business Woman Special

I did not invent Post-It Notes (although I adore them), but tomorrow I’m going to try and pull this off:

Two years and some change ago I had one of the best nights of my life as a music lover in Houston. Dengue Fever was playing the Orange Show, and I caught them for the first time and had a chance to meek Zac and Senon before I split Southeast Houston and headed toward the Montrose to catch the Born Liars, The Ugly Beats and The Fleshtones at Rudyards. It was a legendary show, and my picture, along with my friend Alice’s, ended up on the Houston Press music blog.

About a year after that I started writing for the Houston Press myself, first penning travel stories, then becoming a music blogger. I was thinking about how all this had come full circle Friday night when I saw the Fleshtones and the Ugly Beats again, this time at the Continental Club, and in the capacity of a reviewer for the show. There’s Alice in this picture too. (I’m in on the far right.)

I quit my job as a full-time reporter at a newspaper when C and I got married and moved to Korea. While over there, I began freelancing, but then we moved back right as the job market crashed and so I’ve been working part time and going back to school for fun since then. But all that’s about to chance.

Starting tomorrow, I will be the web editor at the Houston Press. I am excited and terrified and more than ready to start what is quite literally my dream job. Everything I’ve worked for, from my first degree (in journalism) to my freelance work to finishing the hardest semester of school I’ve ever experience in two different programs (the second being literary nonfiction), has been a means to this end. Can. Not. Wait.