So why hasn't La 2138 been posting? Two words: day job.

Yes, I'm gainfully employed. I started on Monday as a summer intern/junior tech writer, for a company which will go unnamed to avoid incriminating Google searches. Let's call it Hill Systems, Inc. HSI is a good place to go in the current economy, and they're still free to do things like hire five interns at once. This is because they develop and sell automated telecom services--marketing them to other companies who want to save money by reducing their number of employees. In other words, we're in the graveyard selling shovels.

But even gravediggers need tech writers, and that's where I come in. HSI is fully-staffed by engineers, programmers, and so forth, and while they know what their systems are about and can develop them expertly, they're not so good at writing the documentation for those systems. It's my job to take the initial documents written by the engineers, and rewrite them so the non-engineer can understand them. This is less fun that it sounds: god bless the engineers, but their run-on sentences are the stuff of legend. And when you're a bit shaky on what it means yourself, trying to learn all the pertinent information from a polysyllabic mess isn't going to make it any easier.

Nevertheless, it's a good job. The office is fairly lax about dress code--just so long as you're neat, clean, and don't smell, you're fine--and the other folks working there are cheerful and friendly. I can have action figures on my desk if I want to, and nobody minds if I listen to music while I work. All in all, it's going good on my end.

The only problem is that this means I'll be spending a lot less time on DA. Sorry, guys; it looks like the Fun Fatales are going to have to be put on hold for me. I WILL come back to them, but for now, I need to be working. There will still be periodic art uploads, tho', and I'll keep this journal maintained so I can stay in contact with all of you.