Good week at work:

• Getting to know more coworkers, and the others are getting cooler the more I know them.

• The boss came through big today with the praise and the financial incentives. Not gonna lie, that was awesome. Looks like I may need to move to NYC sooner than expected. (Kevin follows me here, shouts out if you see this.) 

• An old story of ours landed on Reddit and got outrageous traffic, which is fun to watch, and seems to put management in a good mood.

• Got the logins to our Chartbeat and Google Analytics, which are addictive. Now using them to plot new strategies in SEO-baiting, other dark arts.

• Work actually offered to fly me out to NYC and put me up for a long weekend (uncharacteristically — we don’t really travel or throw money around at all). This will be for our office Festivus party (of course) in early December. 

• This is big: It’s getting easier to write quickly. Feeling the heat less. Starting to realize it’s not the end of the world if your argument isn’t all that sound in a snarky blog post, or if you miss some angle that the better bloggers would’ve nailed. Fuck it: It’s blogging. 

• I can honestly say I”m grateful to be working at a business and finance site at a time when business is on the ropes and a world-historic populist movement is rising up against the financial system. I don’t know dick about these very important topics, but it’s fascinating to edit and research the stuff all day and chip away at my ignorance. Plus I’m gonna get to report on Occupy Detroit in a couple weeks, possibly make a video, and maybe even go report on Occupy Wall Street if I play my cards right. (Kevin, I’ll make it a cheap trip.)

Been a little weird working my way into a company entirely via IM and emails from home 600 miles away, but I guess that’s modern employment for you. At any rate, these people have been really good to me.