Hallelujah! Hallelujah!! Balh blah blab blah!!

A few choruses of ole Handel's Messiah!

A bit grandiose? Ehh, maybe. Perhaps we should whistle Dixie instead?

Why so cheery? You didn't ask?

I got a job! At a place I really believe in. I admire the mission and I like the two co-directors enormously. It's a start-up and I'm their first full time hire.

Starting tomorrow, I will be the National Events Manager for a new non-profit called Games for Change http://www.gamesforchange.org. Their mission is to "provide support, visibility and shared resources to organizations and individuals using digital games for social change. This is the primary community of practice for those interested in making digital games about the most pressing issues of our day, from poverty to race and the environment. We are the social change/social issues branch of the Serious Games Initiative."

This is right up my alley and was behind my setting up the outreach tour of Lollapalooza for Wild Aid, and the Rock The Vote event at Virgin. Youth is far more apathetic than they've ever been. By utilizing gaming as a vehicle for social change, it will increase visibility for the social causes of our day.

The job will be in Union Square, a great NY neighborhood--and home to a Virgin Megastore! Funny how Virgin follows me around.

One part of the job hunting process which I'm very grateful for was the chance to reconnect with some of my former coworkers/references. I owe this job to their sterling recommendations and I am most grateful. Thank you Tom, Sabrina, John V, Jeff and Christos.

Next on the agenda--find an apartment. The three hour commute each day will be a short-term situation, I hope (and trust.)

Today in Connecticut- Gorgeous. Fire orange and yellow maples, bright yellow sun, 50 degrees. Took Fugee for a walk yesterday in a forest preserve--saw two deer and he flushed 14 huge wild turkeys. Weimaraner heaven. It sounded like angry mob day in Kabul with all the high pitched turkey ululating.

Well, just a quick check in. Hope the rest of your weekend is great.

Peace
Craig
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craig hermes
"I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together." - The Beatles