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I was all worried about OMG TRAINING and WHAT IF THEY WANT ME TO DO STUFF I CAN'T DO and the rest this morning, and BossaNova just looked at me and said "Today you can get settled in. Tomorrow I'll start training you."

WORKS FOR ME.

So, today I have watered the orchid, printed things on the whacking giant printer, broken Firefox twice, reinstalled all my bookmarks, started decorating my cube, and discovered I can't reinstall Torrent. Which is probably just as well because I'm not really supposed to be pirating around at work, but our internet is so stupidly fast that I do find myself regretting it. I'm going to have to go home tonight and download QI and Downton Abbey and Doctor Who overnight.

BTW, many have asked: it's not that I don't want to watch Doctor Who, though I admit I haven't been. It's that it's hard to bring myself to do it because I reacted really badly to the last episode before the break -- over-reacted, perhaps, but I have button issues surrounding parents and children and abandonment/reuniting that involve a lot of anger, so watching that episode was like watching someone I hate repeatedly kicking a puppy and being unable to intervene. It's not something I'm keen to re-experience.

I feel so unstructured in this job. "When should I be here in the mornings?" "Ohhhh...I dunno, whenever." "Sam, are you taking lunch?" "Is there a time I should do that?" "No, just go when you get hungry."

THANK GOD FOR THE HOURGLASS. It's the only temporally stable thing in my life right now.

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I'm hard at work, just paying my way in ( A Cheaper World. )

And we have two guest strips!

Strip #1 from revieloutionne
Strip #2 from whirlygeek

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The magic el train takes you to the Chicago Institute of Sorcery.

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Well! That was a day.

My training apparently begins in earnest tomorrow, and on Wednesday I'm at an offsite database seminar, which could get interesting fast. I'm also already registered to attend a research conference later in the month. God knows if I'll understand any of it, but I like research, so it shouldn't suck. Besides, it's at the Museum of Science and Industry, so I get a free ticket to the Seuss exhibit.

I did get a start on information gathering, because my predecessor apparently was big on Knowing Everything but not big on digitally recording it. She left a binder behind which is out of date but very informative nonetheless, and now I'm working on organising it all in digital files in a way that makes sense to my off-kilter brain. In some cases, she was like two steps off from identity-theft levels of information regarding our team.

It is the strangest thing ever to go up to the 19th floor to check in with Coworker K and see someone else sitting at my desk.

AND NOW TO SLEEP.