So, what else is going on in my life?

My sister's just got word that The Mammoth Book of New Erotica wants a story of hers that appeared last year in Clean Sheets! Whee! Way to go, sis!

I interviewed a candidate for a tech writing position at our company. The interview went pretty well (thanks much for the advice, Jed!), although I think I still need to work at developing questions that really get at the issues I'm interested in. (In particular, I tend to underrate job experience or knowledge of specific computer programs or tools, because I had a very tiny amount of technical writing work experience and only a nodding acquaintance with programs like FrameMaker and other tools of the technical writing trade. I'm not willing to apply a standard to other candidates that would have resulted in my not being hired. (Of course, I was hired as a temp, initially, and the two people we're hiring right now will be, too. So we can afford to gamble a bit, though if these new folks don't work out and we have to let them go, we'll be in a bit of a pickle.) On the other hand, if you're not going to judge on the basis of specific knowledge and work experience, you need to judge on the basis of things like ability to learn quickly, organizational skill, motivation...and that's a lot harder to get at than, "So, do you know Dreamweaver?" Not impossible, but trickier.)

The post-interview discussion was interesting, too. I can't talk about it here, but it gave me a fair idea about what the post-interview discussion after my interview at the company must have been like.

Anyway, we hired the candidate, which I'm very pleased about. Next week I get to do another interview. Whooo.

We still haven't hired a new manager. Part of me is worried about this, and part of me is trying to figure out if we could successfully run ourselves as an anarcho-syndicalist commune.

Probably not.