You know you're a geek when you go out with the "girls" (read female employees in your company, a handful at best), and you spend four hours eating and talking about mail servers, log levels, how the programmers see it, how the client understands it, better promotion alternatives, new tasks, future road map, etc...

How do you know there's still hope? You girls also manage to crack a few jokes and laugh your hearts out. So, this is an official statement. Your truly has become a geek. But I can see my problem, admit it and seek treatment :p

The ServeWatch 2007 Product Excellence Awards voting session has started! It is open untill May 25th and the winners will be announced on June 5th.

AXIGEN Mail Server (the sensational product yours truly is promoting) is competing within the Communications Servers category (the last one of the voting form). Do vote for us! :)

I do feel piled higher and deeper these days...I just love this phrase. I also happen to be a great fan of the comic. Actually, it is the only comic I have entirely read. Yes, people, their whole archive! From day one. And then registered to receive emails every time they upload something new. Why do I relate to this particular comic? Should I remind you I've kept postponing turning my paper in for...ummm...two years? True, I have a different type of job and a second University whose classes I attend, or pretend to attend, but still...Procrastination is no stranger to me.

In other news, I love signing email with this shiny, grand looking, job title. I am actually doing that job, kind of, I have the tasks and the responsibilities. It seems a bit unreal still. But I love it. I love getting home dead tired, I love not knowing when the time flew by and it's 5 pm already. I am sure, however, I will love it more when I will actually believe I know what I am doing.

What I love most? Keeping in touch with the press...Ironic, isn't it?

Late replies to comments, rare updates, not exactly my style, is it? Well, I have a perfectly good explanation, but I do apologize for keeping you waiting for the Athens stories and photos. I hope to have them all uploaded this week though.

Just before leaving for Athens I got news. The marketing and PR manager had resigned and I had been assigned to all her stuff. Press releases, contacting journalists, keeping in touch with the press mainly, writing all sorts of marketing materials for the site, newsletters, etc. Well, I had never before written a press release. That is about to change now :)

I am happy with the new tasks. I really needed the challenge and it's all in the direction I wanted to follow from a certain point on. It also means lots of work, as I am alone for now and I still have all my technical writing tasks. I do feel everything is pilling up and soon enough I'd be practically buried in work. Help is coming though, in about a week.

As for the weekend...Well, I was quite tired and postponed everything that could be postponed. So I spent most of my time going out, shopping and not doing anything that would need my brain to actually work. It was the first weekend entirely spent with D and it was pretty great to be honest. Things seem to be settling down somehow. And it all looks bright and shiny.

Well, wish me luck with the new assignments! I will do my best to stop neglecting my readers, promise :)

Today has been one of those days when your head swirls and you have no idea how time passes by. One gets to the office, turns the computer on, grabs a cup of coffee and starts working. A blink of an eye later, it's lunch time. You then come back, more tasks, a brief meeting announcing more to come. Another blink of an eye later...OMG, it's 5.30 pm already! Soon I should leave and I still have plenty to do.

Yes, we have all had such days. My problem? I absolutely love it. The challenge is there, real, keeping me under huge amounts of pressure, but it has the effect of an adrenaline rushing extreme sport. I missed it. I am glad it's back!