Dopp Juice Archive

Whew! Well, that was fun! I just dove into an “accelerated timeline” workaholic frenzy, and pulled the job off successfully, at the great expense of my online personal life (really, you can only sit in front of a computer so many hours a day). So sorry for the silence, the unreturned emails, the lack of reading your stuff. I’m back on your planet now. It may take me a few days to catch up, but at least I’m here. So where the heck have I been? I’ve been working at Interbrand, a corporate branding firm. A phenomenal office with phenomenal people and a phenomenal workload. I’m completely honored to have had the opportunity to work with them. And the great accomplishment? I played a big hand in the website redesigns for Hyperion, a major business software company. Talented artists created the designs, I turned the designs into XHTML and CSS web pages, and Hyperion applied them to their existing complex websites. It was a whole lot like translation work — talking to the designers at one company, talking to the web developers at another company, and conveying information between them in ways that are easy on both sides. So take a look at Hyperion’s new public website: http://www.hyperion.comI also built the entire user interface for their Brand Asset Management website, which I can’t show you. ‘Cuz you don’t work for them. Sorry. But take my word for it, it kicks some serious ass.And while I was at it, I wrote a quick-start user manual and a set of guidelines for future web development. Those tech writing skills came in mighty handy at the last minute.So now… I’ve got a low-key week left to tie up loose ends on the project, and then I’m free for the rest of May. What a scary thought…

I’ve bought my plane ticket. Dabetswe Natasha (and hopefully Courtney Ann Smith) and I are flying from San Francisco to New Hampshire (where the Editor-in-Chief and most of the staff lives) for a weekend, bringing the leaders of the great literary community together for a rare opportunity to collaborate in person. For the span of April 8th and 9th, The Writ Team is having a weekend of meetings, brainstorming, and good wholesome Dover Soul fun. I have so many ideas for the site, and our hands have been tied because of funding and technology. We’re rounding up enough energy and support, though, that I believe we’ll be able to make it all happen soon. But, oh… it will be just 34 hours in New Hampshire for me. And of course I want to see my family, too. I don’t expect to sleep. And I will be back at work Monday morning, so this could all go under the category of “one of Sarah’s less intelligent and more impulsive” ideas.But it will be so worth it!

Okay. I have about 20 hours worth of work to do this weekend and I’ve spent the past five just playing with my blog. Priorities? Not exactly in check. But look! I figured out how to add a “recent comments” section to the right menu bar, so you can quickly see who’s been chatting it up here. And my bigger accomplishment was categorizing all of the amazing WoolfCampers (and then some) into links. Scroll down and look at the right column. I have many more creative professionals I want to link to… but I really should get to work now. Bad, Sarah.