New

So yeah I've been the new employee for about 3 weeks now, I think I'm at the end of my third week. I'm quite happy. If I had known how liberating resigning would feel, believe me I'd have done it a whole lot sooner. Hihi but I guess everything has its season. It's been grand so far. These are the differences between my previous and current jobs: 1) Unlike my last job, I don't work overtime for this one, well not yet and I'm going for never. But if I MUST, I will actually get paid for it, I'm through with all this flexi-time business; 2) I have to look like I belong in an office...I realize that this will take some time to sort out, yes I really miss my jeans but it's like playing grown-up when I put on work clothes (I suppose there's something wrong with feeling like a child at my age but that thought belongs in another entry); 3) I have my own office supplies, there was an abnormally high incidence of pencil theft at my old workplace; 4) It's pretty much the same thing here day in and day out, I do a lot of research and that's pretty much it, no more talking to socialites and pacifying artists, I have to do my drinking after work hours, none of that lovelily frivolous stuff. They've got us working assembly-line-like over here. Fun!

I got my employee ID last night! It was so exciting. I have one of those neck strappy things you hang your ID and your zap card from. Zap card! It's the first I've ever had one of those. It lets me know that I'm me when I tap it against the electronic box by the entrance. I will always know who I am. ANYway, the most exciting part of my new job is the coffee machine in the pantry! Yes yes I know, there is a pantry too! I don't drink coffee now but the machine (it's one of those amazing nescafe gadgets) dispenses hot chocolate. It's my new work best friend, although some of my new colleagues (hihi) have gone out of their way to be helpful. That's really nice of them. I'll prolly cry about that soon and marvel at how lucky and blessed my life is.

Yes it is a progressively soul-shrivelling environment. But I'm not whining just yet, at the moment everything is different and shiny and new.