January 12, 2009 6:59 AM

New year, new job

I start work today as a product innovation manager on USAT's new product development team. We made up the title Wednesday. The actual name of the team may be New Product development team or new Product Development team or something else entirely. The job descriptions and salaries are still up in the air. But it should be good. There are four people on the team, and we all want to get stuff done. Transition and other issues are kind of messing with my head, though. Stress dreams all over. I lost half of last night thinking about leaving behind two and a half years of work with Network Journalism, even though the project goes into good hands and part of it stays in mine. After trying to call a friend or two who were probably asleep, I finally fell off by imagining myself making small dark wooden boxes. Zen-ish? I would make each small box big enough for my bare feet, put it on the ground and step inside. Then I would make another box and repeat.

Thoughts?