Deeeeeeeeep

Preface - The title of this piece is correctly pronounced in this this commercial. It's been a while since the last piece, but you see, there was a piece before this one. No, don't go back looking for the super-secret hidden link or anything. I scrapped it for reasons I don't want to get into because I'm in enough trouble as it is. Ok. This is a happy piece because I'm happy!

The big news that I can stop bitching and whining and moaning about that whole summer job thing because Deepleap has hired me for the summer. Yeah! Whoo hooo! This is so great! I'm excited. Yes, me, pessimistic asshole, "i think everything in the entire world is bullshit," adam mathes, is excited.

I mean, working for deepleap is exactly what I wanted. I think they're working on something really cool and I want to help build it and make it great. Even though sometimes it's a little difficult to explain what "it" is.

And all the while I was desperately trying to sell out looking for a job, I kept thinking back to this piece Jamie Zawinski wrote right after he quit Netscape, where he said -

"And there's another factor involved, which is that you can divide our industry into two kinds of people: those who want to go work for a company to make it successful, and those who want to go work for a successful company. Netscape's early success and rapid growth caused us to stop getting the former and start getting the latter."

And wow, I'll be going from reading Edd Dumbill's Weblog and contemplating the future of web apps to actually being right there... actually working on and creating the kind of app that is part of the future of the web. How great is that? I'm stoked.

And, and! Yes more! And I'm going to get to work with these really great people and, yeah, this is going to be great!

Ok, so besides Ben i haven't met any of them, but that's not the point. I know they're web sites, and I mean, who do you know that sucks that has a great personal web site? See, it just doesn't work that way. The people behind great sites are always nifty.

Like Bryan has stuff that reads like something out of the The Baffler except that it's not 8 million words and full of obscure references that I'm too uncultured to understand, so he's got to be keen, right?

And even though I've seen the truth about Lane, I'm sure he's great too, like for instance, he's my boss and probably won't kill me for linking to the sexy lane video. I hope. Watch, I haven't even started work yet and I'll get fired.

Ok, Tempy hasn't updated her site in ages, but that's ok, I'm sure she's nifty too. And does Courtney have a site that I don't know about? Oh great, here I am, already screwing up. Hi, I'm adam, and I'll be your clueless idiot summer intern tonight. I'm sure five minutes after I get there I'll like trip over the one important cord and all of deepleap will go down. Watch for it. It'll be fun.

And then, last but not least, there's Ben. You know, benbrown, internet rockstar, consumer product, etc. And my buddy. I'm sure working with him is going to like turn me into a sexy web devvy coding machine internet rockstar guy. Well, ok, not exactly, but I like the Transformers, and he likes the Transformers, and I'm bringing my Transformers videos, so I'm sure everything will be great. And while everybody loves ben brown, I'm going to be renting a room in his house. I won't have to go to stalk.benbrown.com because I'll just be able to walk across the hall! Wow. How great is that?

Ok, so I'm a little nervous about this whole thing, because deep down I'm just a neurotic-Woody Allenish jew-boy and I'm nervous about everything. But I'm employee #1, and the deepleap founders are all good buddies and then there's stupid little clueless me who's just going to show up in June. Right, and who the hell am I? Exactly. But really I think it'll all be good, and fun, and yeah. Happy! Positive! This is the happy fun texty text!

Ok, this was going to be near the end of the piece I scrapped, and worked much better there, but since this is the happy fun texty text, I'm throwing it in.

So, I got back to my room late after missing Narnia's Special Dinner thingee, and feeling pathetic and loserish because I had just hung out with my ex-girlfriend for a few hours, and really she just has that effect on me these days, and there's this thing under my door...

"The residents of Narnia have agreed that Adam Mathes should receive the award for: Resident with whom You'd Most Like to Hook Up"

I swear I'm not even making this one up. And because this is the happy fun texty text, we aren't going to delve into questions like, so where the hell are all these girls who want to "hook up" with me and why doesn't it ever happen. No, no this is the happy fun texty text, where all we're going to delve into is just how god damned sexy I am. Yes. I am damned sexy. And I am going to have an amazing summer in Austin. Everything is great.

Except for the whole "school" thing. That still sucks. This whole quarter system and having class until June is just evil. And painful. Ok, well, it was almost entirely a happy fun texty text.