New Stuff.
Nov. 25th, 2003 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
spacebugSo I got this new job, and it appears to not suck.
The first thing I was told when I showed up was how much everyone was looking forward to my starting that day. How nice!
My coworkers, while not the diverse, flamboyant lot I grew to love at the Bead Store, are intelligent and pretty cool. S, the other new office girl, is also nearly-vegan, complained jovially about the difficulty of finding good non-leather shoes, and told me her Mom is making them all a vegan Thanksgiving this year. Neat! J, whose old desk, computer, phone, and many duties are now mine (or soon become mine when I learn how to do them), is very nice, and she brought her 13 week old Westie puppy in to work my first day- much to the delight of all the office workers and faculty. So I spent a chunk of my first day playing with and being licked by a puppy, which is a great way, I found, to feel at home someplace. The best was the older, eastern european piano instructor coming in, needing something right away, stopping in his tracks declaring "...but puppy comes before all theenks!" My boss seems a very nice, intelligent, and competent person, which is a delightful change of pace. No one that I dealt with in the office as a student is still there.
I saw four of my old professors (though not my favorite, yet, unfortunately), and was introduced to every single staff or faculty member or TA who happened into the office. I got to meet the new electronic music professor, who seems very nice, and who gave me a standing invitation to visit for a tour or to play around in the new studio. Yay! (To my dismay, apparently a lot of the cool old analog synths that had been locked away in a closet have since been sold, save one ARP. Sad.)
My pretty decent benefits package kicks in in about a month, and I also am allowed 6 credits of classes for free each semester. I also have Thursday and Friday off!
Minuses- well, it's an office. I do office stuff. I grew to like working with real objects that are sold, rather than files and reams of papers and computer screens. Today there was a lot of filing and data entry, backlogged since the office was apparently woefully understaffed until S and I got there, and J has been trying to do the job of three people for the last three weeks. That also means that my training is kind of piecemeal, but having been a student there for so long really helps a lot. Mainly I've been helping J get un-backlogged, tomorrow will be more in depth on two of the main things I'll be in charge of now: Recitals and Grade Changes. It's weird getting up when it's still dark out, but nice to be done early.
Mainly, though, it's really weird being on campus again. It's weird being on the whole west bank again. It is a place I am constantly reminded of old friends and ex-lovers and old houses and the life I used to lead as a student. Hopefully it will all feel normal enough soon.
The first thing I was told when I showed up was how much everyone was looking forward to my starting that day. How nice!
My coworkers, while not the diverse, flamboyant lot I grew to love at the Bead Store, are intelligent and pretty cool. S, the other new office girl, is also nearly-vegan, complained jovially about the difficulty of finding good non-leather shoes, and told me her Mom is making them all a vegan Thanksgiving this year. Neat! J, whose old desk, computer, phone, and many duties are now mine (or soon become mine when I learn how to do them), is very nice, and she brought her 13 week old Westie puppy in to work my first day- much to the delight of all the office workers and faculty. So I spent a chunk of my first day playing with and being licked by a puppy, which is a great way, I found, to feel at home someplace. The best was the older, eastern european piano instructor coming in, needing something right away, stopping in his tracks declaring "...but puppy comes before all theenks!" My boss seems a very nice, intelligent, and competent person, which is a delightful change of pace. No one that I dealt with in the office as a student is still there.
I saw four of my old professors (though not my favorite, yet, unfortunately), and was introduced to every single staff or faculty member or TA who happened into the office. I got to meet the new electronic music professor, who seems very nice, and who gave me a standing invitation to visit for a tour or to play around in the new studio. Yay! (To my dismay, apparently a lot of the cool old analog synths that had been locked away in a closet have since been sold, save one ARP. Sad.)
My pretty decent benefits package kicks in in about a month, and I also am allowed 6 credits of classes for free each semester. I also have Thursday and Friday off!
Minuses- well, it's an office. I do office stuff. I grew to like working with real objects that are sold, rather than files and reams of papers and computer screens. Today there was a lot of filing and data entry, backlogged since the office was apparently woefully understaffed until S and I got there, and J has been trying to do the job of three people for the last three weeks. That also means that my training is kind of piecemeal, but having been a student there for so long really helps a lot. Mainly I've been helping J get un-backlogged, tomorrow will be more in depth on two of the main things I'll be in charge of now: Recitals and Grade Changes. It's weird getting up when it's still dark out, but nice to be done early.
Mainly, though, it's really weird being on campus again. It's weird being on the whole west bank again. It is a place I am constantly reminded of old friends and ex-lovers and old houses and the life I used to lead as a student. Hopefully it will all feel normal enough soon.
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Date: 2003-11-25 06:59 pm (UTC)HOOOOOOORAY!
Date: 2003-11-25 08:49 pm (UTC)Re: HOOOOOOORAY!
Date: 2003-11-26 05:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-25 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-25 10:49 pm (UTC)I sympathize with the "weird being back on campus" feeling. My office is a block from the shithole house I lived in when I was a full-time grad student. Some of the same freaks still populate Dinkytown. It felt like I was trespassing on memory for the first two weeks.
I got over it, though. We never had the Kitty Cat Club back in the day, and that can compensate for a multitude of ills.
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Date: 2003-11-26 05:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-11-26 09:06 am (UTC)I also live very close to Dinkytown. I occasionally pass the house I lived in during the summer between my junior and senior year in college. it feels strange still.
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Date: 2003-11-26 09:29 am (UTC)i'm so happy for you!
: )
She escaped!
Date: 2003-11-26 10:42 am (UTC)