Hump Day

Well, I'm midway through my first week, so I guess I'll survive after all. I must say, though, that these early mornings are nearly killing me. I was just not cut out to do the 8:30 to 5 thing. I have to get up an hour earlier than normal. That means I get home an hour earlier too, but I've been so tired that my early evenings really haven't been as fun or productive as I'd hoped . . . and there's a Gold's Gym actually in my building, but I haven't been motivated to actually bring workout clothes and take advantage of my membership yet. Maybe next week. Or maybe not. The DC powerball is apparently 2 million, so if I played, maybe I could really never work again.

Today I actually got to do a little bit of actual work like writing and web updating. Woo hoo! I also got all the office supplies I ordered, so that is good news. I like the people I work with for the most part, except for the glimpse of micromanager I saw in my boss today. I wrote this stuff for the web, and she brought it back and said it was great except to do it all over the way she thinks it should be done. Sigh.

Our office setup is really weird. We're under the umbrella of a larger organization, and we sit in an office with a bunch of other people who are technically not in our little organization. The weird thing is that nobody talks to each other, even if they walk by you 10 times a day. There seems to be an unspoken rule that never the two shall meet. Very strange.

I have eaten way too much crap this week. With the holidays almost here, the office has received millions of gift baskets filled with all kinds of stuff. My biggest weakness these days seems to be all the chocolate. My predecessor left the company to start her own business making chocolate and consequently our Christmas gift from the president was a nice little personal box of these decadent goodies.

And lastly, there is a Starbucks opening soon in my building, which is just a little too close for comfort.