I'm not sure whether this is true for me yet - but I think I'm becoming a morning person. As I write this, I'm sitting down and having breakfast (OK, a bowl of cereal) and waiting for the coffee to finish brewing. And I still have about 15 minutes before I leave for my second day of working at my new job! Of course, part of that could be that I've also changed my evening routine - showering around 10:30 & heading off to bed.
It's weird - I always thought of myself as a night owl. I was always able to pull all-nighters in college (and a few during high school). Although, one summer I had a great roommate who liked to go swimming before breakfast - and we would both get up and get going by about 6:15. (Does the fact that she was from California play into it? Maybe. They do have a lot of sun there...)
I'm excited about my new job, too - even though it's not in higher education. I just hope that I can do a good enough job that they don't regret hiring me. The person I'm replacing is retiring, and she's been with the company for quite a while. Luckily, she's the one showing me the ropes! It is so nice to be able to understand the logic behind someone else's filing system!
Rant/ So many times I've started a new job and no one really knows how to find anything - "So-and-so always knew where those were" (where "So-and-so" is the person that left/retired/bolted). Trust me, no matter how logical you think your filing system is, if there are no guidelines no one else would be able to figure it out for a while. (In one job, it took me more than eight months to figure it out. Of course, part of that was because the last person had handwritten the labels and didn't have the best penmanship.) In other words, trying to figure out a new-to-you filing system without guidelines would be like trying to decipher the Rosetta Stone without knowing any of the languages, or a knitting chart without knowing what any of the symbols mean. /Rant
Speaking of knitting - I think the one thing I'm missing right now from living in Boston (aside from my friends & family there) is the public transportation. I have a feeling that my first person-size sweater won't get finished for another two years at this rate! On the plus side, though, I've discovered that my commute is pretty much the same length as one episode of a great BBC radio series, Cabin Pressure, a comedy about a small charter airline. It ties in nicely with the location of my new job, which is near the local airport. (If you're curious, you can buy episodes from Audible or iTunes.)
