Job at the WWF

...(but not the World Wrestling Federation)

Today was a good day, though not quite as good as I had been hoping for. I had been hoping to hear back about an internship that I interviewed for and am really excited about, but alas, I didn't not hear from them. I did, however, start my first day as a 4-day temp at the World Wildlife Fund. I am just subbing for an assistant because she is taking next week off for Thanksgiving. Normally she would be able to just take time off and not need anyone to replace her, but several of her superiors are about to go to the Democratic Republic of Congo for a few weeks for a conference or something, so they need someone in the office.

I didn't really do very much today. My two big tasks were to design some certificates that will be given out at a ceremony in the D.R.C., and to make sure that some expense reports were turned in to the accounting department by 3:00 today. Oh, and I also had to coordinate with a visa service and return some passports to people who are going on this trip. I must say, these four passports were by far the most impressive passports I have ever seen. They all had lots of stamps from lots of exotic places and most of them had lots of extra pages to accommodate all of the stamps. Overall it was a fairly easy job, but it seems like a great place to work, full of interesting people. One of the guys who I am helping to coordinate with on this trip is Bruce Babbitt, former governor of Arizona. I will be meeting him on Monday I think. Hopefully I will hear back about that other internship on Monday too. But then I will have to think about how much I really want that internship, which pays a lot less than even this temp gig, or if I would maybe rather try to get a job here at the WWF... gosh, who knows...

On an unrelated note, here is proof that some people have way too much time on their hands. I saw this story online about an old photo which allegedly MIGHT contain an image of Abraham Lincoln. You can then click on a link which takes you to increasingly zoomed-in images of the photo in question, eventually trying to convince you that a specific tiny blob in the photo must be good ol' Honest Abe himself. It's pretty ridiculous...

And finally, here is a YouTube video of the latest cheesy yet catchy Puerto Rican reggaeton song that I have become addicted to, "Sexy Movimiento" by Wisin & Yandel. I'm not going to lie; there are a lot of annoying things about this video (mostly the mild objectification of women and annoying displays of "bling" and machismo), but you might like it anyway.