Man hands

The strangest part about my job is finding my hands somewhere they're not supposed to be. Like <a href="http://www.slashphone.com/83/5757.html"> here</a>. Those are my hands. The wedding ring is covered by the phone.

I'm working for the website <a href="http://www.infosyncworld.com">infoSync World</a>. We review cell phones, and sometimes report on news in the phone industry. It's a great job, I'm really loving it. I did take the job at the high school, and I worked there for a day. One day. On that day, infoSync, which at the time was only one guy in this country, called to offer me a job. I hadn't started teaching yet. If it was a few weeks later, I would have stayed at the school out of guilt, but it was a professional development week before classes started, so I didn't feel as bad. I've certainly seen teachers back out right before the school year began, and I was mainly an elective teacher, so there was no guilt. The school was really cool about it, too.

Some days I feel remorse, that I'm not a useful member of society helping to fight against the crisis in urban education. Other days I feel wonderful that I was so selfish that I had to do something that really makes me happy, and I go and get a fantastic falafel, of which there are many here near Astor Place and St. Marks, in lower Manhattan. I recommend <a href="http://getchickpea.com">ChickPea</a>. Avoid the Schawafel, it's not as great as it sounds.

I'm not a cell phone geek or guru, at least not yet. I really like writing. I never thought I would get paid for writing, which is probably the first sign of a job you truly enjoy, that you didn't think people would pay you to do it. The second sign? That you don't realize it's a friday until 3 in the afternoon, and then you start thinking about what work you'd like to do over the weekend, which I do every week.

The third sign is free drinks. There are a surprising number of events offering free booze to journalists. There are conventions everywhere - I'm going to be in Vegas in January. Tonight there is a preview show for the Vegas convention, and there will be free drinks.

So, we're a small website, and we do our own photos in house, at our shared office space in NoHo, near the window. I hold the phone in my hand and take pictures. Sometimes, random sites will link to our posts, and sometimes they'll take our pictures and run them. I'll be reading another site, and there are my hands, which is kind of surreal. I like being a hand model, but it doesn't pay well. I'm thinking about getting implants.