Reports From The Field 2004
n what amounts to my third weblog in just as many months, I have created my first post on the maryville college site, where I will be a correspondant, approximately twice weekly, writing in about my adventures in Boston. I have to be careful not to leak industry secrets! For giggles, I have repeated the first post here, but you can read all the posts in teh future at this address:
http://www.maryvillecollege.edu/news/reports-2004/dylan.asp
“I feel so alive to be so bewildered.” This is not only my first day in an entirely alien environment, a city I’ve never seen, but it is also my first day on the job. I wore my best suit, on my mother’s advice.Last night, I arrived on the train, exhausted from having carried the weight of everything I own across the length of several trains in several places: Harpers Ferry, Washington D.C., New York, and now here I am in Boston, or is it Cambridge, or is it Watertown? I can’t tell where one city begins and another town begins.
This morning we had a company meeting. I was astounded by how familiar the meeting felt. I had expected something very like the meetings I see in commercials. I’ve never attended a company meeting before, so what do I know…
It was just like Lit class. We sat in a circle and began a conversation about a book. Well, it isn’t exactly a book. It has film in it, photographs of objects, paragraphs and characters. It has a title: “Of Day, Of Night”, and the purpose of our meeting was to summarize it in an appealing way, as we are about to publish it.
At the end of the day, it will be interesting to see if I can navigate the streets and transit systems to get back to my strange new apartment