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Things are looking up on the magda-at-work front. Way up.
Around 4.30 today, a caravan of executives left their penthouse perches and trotted on down to my windowless hovel-style office.
They came bearing gifts and accolades; they came to congratulate me on winning the latest editorial excellence award. As in, I beat out everyone; my story was the best one of everything published in the third quarter.
I deserved it. It sounds cocky to say that, and I’m not generally one for tooting my own horn or anything. Sometimes circumstances merit a little bit of boundary-shifting, however, and this is definitely one of those instances.
The story that won was the product of an insanely difficult assignment my boss sent me on last June. It was an assignment that really should have been his, but his wife scheduled a family vacation that same week. I kicked ass and took names, but it was. not. easy. Hence, I’m granting myself a brief window in which to jump around and congratulate myself with as many flowery and over-the-top adjectives as I like. Yay yay yay.
As much as I loved the surprise visit today, one of the best things was the look on my boss’ face. He didn’t even realize I was a contender, see; I nominated myself. Being all stealth and crafty-like, I read the small print correlating to the asterix asking managing editors to submit stories from their staffs. * Editors may also submit their own work, accompanied by an explanatory letter of merit.
My boss generally considers my work “in progress” or “developing,” I think mostly owing to my age and just-out-of-school status. Let’s see him belittle me now, now that a mass e-mail has gone out to global corporate saying “bow to magda, she’s the best EVER.” Or, you know, something similar.
My morning mantra remains “your mission is to take the building with minimal loss of life,” but that mission should be getting a heck of a lot easier to execute.
(And a word about the weekend: amazing. Absolutely amazing, and currently hanging out in my drafts folder. Coming soon, stay tuned, and all that).
