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01/30/2006: "New Job"
Did I tell you I had a new job 
Day one over and I survived! The longer drive in the morning didn't seem bad at all and didn't take too much longer. The morning was taken up with general orientation and meeting others who were starting too, it wasn't until the afternoon when I was sitting in my office alone that I started to think how weird it all was. It's an exciting sort of weird but I still went to the car to get my coffee and mug and photo montage pic and looked at all the friendly faces I'd left behind and thought how nice it was that I'd brought them all with me.
And then I thought how many new friendly people I'd met and would be working with and how exciting change can be........and I might get the opportunity to travel abroad now and again to Greece. 
..........and I get a brand new whizzy pc in a day or two.........and........well it's all new and it's ok. As you can probably tell, it's a long time since I've had a new job but it's the first time I've had one that was similar to what I've done before so it didn't seem so daunting and I knew what they were talking about which helped.
I did have a moment when I felt distinctly like a five year old starting school - you know where they go along and at the end of the day they are so happy they enjoyed the experience but it hasn't dawned on them that they have to go back again and that's it for - well nearly for ever. That's sort of how I felt - so relieved that day one was over that for a split second I forgot that this was it; I'm here and I have to stay here and keep coming back. But it's cool.
I think I even have a view from my window but it was so foggy, it was hard to see more than a few feet but there are also quite nice gardens to walk around so my fears that I'd be working in a concrete jungle were unfounded.
So, tomorrow is another day and hopefully I'll actually start doing some work.........it feels very strange not having about twenty things to do, although I am well aware that that will all change all too soon, in the meantime, I'm going to enjoy the "honeymoon" period 