So ends my first week of work, although it was only two days since I started Thursday. The people who are in my area are altogether nice and friendly and helpful. It’s quite surprising to a person who is used to ghosting in jobs… to have people come by and offer doughnuts, or M&Ms (did I mention this job is going to make me fat?!?!) and smile and be friendly…
The most entertaining thing of all is that when you flush the toilets, they give off a puff of cinnamon scented something. I thought I was hallucinating the first time I flushed, but no indeed, these pristine toilets dutifully give off cinnamon wafts every time they flush. Hilarious!
I am told that a few people do bike in, and I even heard a rumor that there are little lockers somewhere… but they are located at basement sub level B, or something, and you need to apply for access permission to get in there! Hmm.
Today at lunch I went to Subway. I hate Subway. I keep forgetting how much I hate it, and then I go there, and rediscover how much I hate it. I got a salad which was carefully arranged to be almost impossible to eat. Every single item in the salad appeared to have been cut into the most dissifult shape possible. The lettuce was shredded, the carrots were shredded, the cucumber had a very large diameter and was cut super thin (ever try picking up a really wide, paper thin cucumber with one of those plastic forks and then try to balance it into your mouth?), the tomatoes likwise… I dutifully ate for about 20 minutes but managed to get very little actual food into my mouth. Impossible!
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So, for the last three straight nights (and a lot of other nights before that), I have been dreaming about bananas. Clearly the Queensland Banana Cyclone Disaster has wreaked havoc on my delicate psyche… I can’t live without bananas…
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Bought an $85 HP all-in-one printer yesterday (to replace the one I pitched through the wall several months ago…). Printer should work, buit the *200+ MB* of software (!!!!) it forces you to install utterly crash my machine… we’re returning the printer tomorrow. It’s behaving exactly the same way as the one I pitched at the wall.
HP used to be an awesome printer company. When did it go down the loo??