"Standing on a building I am a lightning rod"

So one week of work is down. Most of the week was spent reading materials and participating in conference calls with another new hire or two. Actually the gal that's in Cincinatti. A lot of reading and frankly not all that exciting. I did get a few free lunches, which was great. Also on Friday, the office leader bought smoothies for everyone, so that was cool....seems like a great atmosphere for work. People seem to get along pretty well etc.

Well my boss works from home on Fridays, so on Friday she asked me to handle something for her, which made my not too exciting week very interesting all of a sudden. I was on the phone with a client and acting as the go between with a layout person in Chicago who was trying to get the materials to us. At the end of the day this role and project was similar to what I used to do at the School 'o Business so that was cool. I have a bit of experience with it and don't feel to overwhelmed. But I did think for a bit that I might be working past 6 on Friday. Instead I got to bring some work home with me for the weekend. Not too fun, but potentially a norm, so I guess I'd better get used to it. This weekend only a couple of hours, so not too bad. And it's also helpful that I'm getting paid for it.

After a day of unpacking and shopping for a few more essentials (like our brand new 19" flatscreen monitor...to replace the ancient and supersmall hand-me-down from Josh + it was only going to be $70 after we used our gift card from a bunch of the guys at Best Buy, but unfortunately we couldn't find it...which I guess means I'll just put it towards on XBox 360 when I do find it, right?) it's time to pack it in for the night (please see pre-parenthesis to make sense of that last in-between parenthetical phrases phrase).

Goodnight and thanks for all the comments. Miss y'all.

Currently Listening to the new Guster CD: Ganging up on the Sun - got to get ready for the show!