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May. 31st, 2002 11:48 pmSo, a week into the job, and it's going pretty well. I am completely failing to love the lack of net access though. I feel really disconnected from all of my friends. I don't love it. After having a steady IV drip of net access (Would that be an IP drip?) pretty much every waking hour for the last several years, only getting two or three hours a day is very odd indeed. This whole actually needing to wake up deal is strange also.
So, work. Just training at the moment. It's not so bad, now that we're over the first day policies paperwork. That was an exercise in tedium. Not that I mind reading up on the policies, but reading them is one thing. Having them read at you for hours is quite another. Here's some samplings from the notes I took to keep myself from falling asleep "Sexual harrasment - No, not even if she's asking for it", "Drugs - Hallucinogens only allowed from the hours between noon and two", "Teamwork - Stay alert, trust no one, keep your laser handy", "Email - Guess I'll need to find somewhere else to post my manifesto".
I continue to really like my team. It's a shame I'm not going to stay with them once training's over, but maybe some of them will end up on the same project. We're apparently the most sociable group our trainers have ever seen. It's nice. Kind of reminds me of first year of college. Not really a peer group per se, but the first time I had a group of people I could actually babble to about some of my interests. "So wait, you *want* to talk about quantum mechanics? RAD!". Now it's "Wait, I can talk about games and you *care*? KEEN!" We have bubble bobble tournaments. It's hard to go wrong with that. Especially when the games are free.
Anyway, most of this week has just been work and sleep. Finally got to see some episodes of Six Feet Under. I like it, but it's always hard coming into those shows part way through. A whole bunch of "Ok, well that was a lot of drama, but I don't know these people, so why should I care?". Other than that, I get up at about 6:30 am, and I get back here at 7ish usually, which doesn't leave all that much time for leisure.
Tonight was hanging out with momness night. She picked me up from work and we went to go see 13 Conversations About One Thing. It's a series of interlocking vignettes, and I tend to like those sorts of movies. This was no exception. Thematically similar to something I was musing about way back in one of my first entries also, that being chaos theory as it applies to social dynamics. Small perturbations can effect great changes. I've got Depeche Mode stuck in my head (The grabbing hands grab all they can. Everything counts in large amounts) My internal jukebox clearly didn't understand the point. Everything counts in small amounts also. Anyway, good movie, though dark, but when have I ever been bothered by dark?
At dinner, my mom mentioned that she'd heard that an old friend of mine from high school had a child now. Weirded me out a lot. First off, I remember this person as being 14 years old when I was 18. He was basically the mascot for our social group at the time. In my head *he's* still a child. Secondly, it triggered the whole pseudo-biological clock thing. Lots of my friends are getting married. Some have children. I want kid(s) some day down the line, and it seems strange to me that I'm rapidly approaching the age where it's sort of natural that "some day" eventually become "today". I'm one year younger than my mother was when she had me. I don't feel old enough to have children, but I still can't help but mentally add 18 to my age sometimes "If I were to have a child right now, I'd be 44 when they graduated high school." Strange. I thought this sort of thing was only meant to happen to females. I'm not hormonally wired to have a biological clock!
Ok, sick of writing now, maybe I should sleep. That would be wise. Therefor, I probably won't. I'm silly like that. Anyway, night all.
So, work. Just training at the moment. It's not so bad, now that we're over the first day policies paperwork. That was an exercise in tedium. Not that I mind reading up on the policies, but reading them is one thing. Having them read at you for hours is quite another. Here's some samplings from the notes I took to keep myself from falling asleep "Sexual harrasment - No, not even if she's asking for it", "Drugs - Hallucinogens only allowed from the hours between noon and two", "Teamwork - Stay alert, trust no one, keep your laser handy", "Email - Guess I'll need to find somewhere else to post my manifesto".
I continue to really like my team. It's a shame I'm not going to stay with them once training's over, but maybe some of them will end up on the same project. We're apparently the most sociable group our trainers have ever seen. It's nice. Kind of reminds me of first year of college. Not really a peer group per se, but the first time I had a group of people I could actually babble to about some of my interests. "So wait, you *want* to talk about quantum mechanics? RAD!". Now it's "Wait, I can talk about games and you *care*? KEEN!" We have bubble bobble tournaments. It's hard to go wrong with that. Especially when the games are free.
Anyway, most of this week has just been work and sleep. Finally got to see some episodes of Six Feet Under. I like it, but it's always hard coming into those shows part way through. A whole bunch of "Ok, well that was a lot of drama, but I don't know these people, so why should I care?". Other than that, I get up at about 6:30 am, and I get back here at 7ish usually, which doesn't leave all that much time for leisure.
Tonight was hanging out with momness night. She picked me up from work and we went to go see 13 Conversations About One Thing. It's a series of interlocking vignettes, and I tend to like those sorts of movies. This was no exception. Thematically similar to something I was musing about way back in one of my first entries also, that being chaos theory as it applies to social dynamics. Small perturbations can effect great changes. I've got Depeche Mode stuck in my head (The grabbing hands grab all they can. Everything counts in large amounts) My internal jukebox clearly didn't understand the point. Everything counts in small amounts also. Anyway, good movie, though dark, but when have I ever been bothered by dark?
At dinner, my mom mentioned that she'd heard that an old friend of mine from high school had a child now. Weirded me out a lot. First off, I remember this person as being 14 years old when I was 18. He was basically the mascot for our social group at the time. In my head *he's* still a child. Secondly, it triggered the whole pseudo-biological clock thing. Lots of my friends are getting married. Some have children. I want kid(s) some day down the line, and it seems strange to me that I'm rapidly approaching the age where it's sort of natural that "some day" eventually become "today". I'm one year younger than my mother was when she had me. I don't feel old enough to have children, but I still can't help but mentally add 18 to my age sometimes "If I were to have a child right now, I'd be 44 when they graduated high school." Strange. I thought this sort of thing was only meant to happen to females. I'm not hormonally wired to have a biological clock!
Ok, sick of writing now, maybe I should sleep. That would be wise. Therefor, I probably won't. I'm silly like that. Anyway, night all.
