okansas.blogspot.com Occassional thoughts about orienteering |
Friday, May 11, 2007 New jobNo orienteering today.I've just finished my first week at a new job. After working as a performance auditor for almost 15 years, I'm now "director of policy analysis" in the Mayor's Office. I'm a bit unsure about exactly what the job will entail. I expect it will develop over the next couple of months. If I had to guess, I'd expect my days to be filled with reading, writing, talking and going to an occasional meeting. After a week on the job, my main impression is that this is going to be a fun job. Reading, writing and thinking about city government is what I've been doing for the last 15 years. So that isn't really different. But the environment is a bit different than performance auditing. The office has a different feel to it - more different ways of thinking and a quicker pace. Eurovision Song Contest Tomorrow is the Eurovision song contest final. It is hard to really appreciate how weird the contest is. Poke around the official web page and you can listen to the songs (if you want to). I have strong memories of a weekend around 1989 or 1990. On Tio Mila weekend, Sweden won the hockey world champs (after some incredibly bad sportsmanship on by the US team); a ping-pong world championship (doubles, I think); and the Eurovision song contest. Carola sang the winning song and, like any Eurovision winner, the song could get stuck in your head in an instant. So consider yourself warned before you hit the "play" button below: Back to okansas.blogspot.com. posted by Michael | 8:01 PM
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