Losing It

I got up early this morning to go with Mike and Ashley to the other office nearby for some orientation. Orientation to what… we didn’t know. SO we met at the office around six twenty to get our stuff and we headed down to catch the six forty five shuttle van. Well, the darn van must have left at six forty three, because we were left high and dry. The next shuttle left at seven forty five so we decided to wait.

Luckily for us, we were able to catch a ride with someone else going in the same direction only twenty minutes later. Traffic is insane here. I’ve driven in some horrible traffic in some weird cities, and though it wasn’t the worst traffic, it was pretty bad.

We had to wait in line at the orientation briefing. The line moved pretty quickly, and we were able to get good seats in a small stadium style auditorium. The orientation started promptly at eight o’clock. And time came to a standstill. The next four hours were awful. We sat through six briefings, each one as dry as the last. I probably dozed off a half-dozen times. Some of our co-workers were telling us that these briefs would be bad, but I thought they were just trying to scare us. Nope. It was bad.

Thankfully, it ended right at noon and we signed out in order to get credit for attending and we got out of there and headed to lunch. I had some okay beef curry and rice along with some feta cheese and crusty bread. And two double espressos with milk. I should have had the double espressos with breakfast. I also had some fantastic tiramisu. I’m usually not a big fan of that kind of dessert, but it looked good.

Around two o’clock we caught the van back to our office. And then I exchanged my laundry, and visited with Keith for a bit. I have to take Keith over to where we were this morning to do some of his inprocessing paperwork. Around three thirty we had our weekly trash burn. That lasted two hours and a basketball game broke out so we watched that for a while. Keith won.

When the trash burn was over, I went to the gym with Mike and Keith. Afterward, I cleaned up and called Sara on Skype. What a great invention/concept. The line was pretty clear, not the best, but for the price, it’s pretty darn good. So I went back into the office and I looked at the work that is waiting for me. I didn’t have to look at it long, because it is Saturday… And that means it’s movie night. We watched Burn After Reading, which a lot of people didn’t like. I, however, kind of like Cohen Brothers movies and I thought it was pretty funny.

Mike and Ash had already left at that point, so I straightened up the office and made it back to my apartment. And here I sit on the floor in front of my laptop chronicling my day. Yet another day translated into ones and zeros.