The first week… and a half

The first week at work has been great, but exhausting. I don’t think I’ve ever been so happy to see Friday in my life. Not because it was horrible or physically exhausting, but because my brain was so overloaded that I was excited for two days of learning nothing new.

Honestly, though, I am loving the job so far. This is so far removed from what I’ve done in the past that it’s a challenge – and I love a challenge. The people in my office are really very nice, a little quieter than I’m used to, but I’ll get used to that soon enough. The people I interact with in other offices have been wonderful, calling/emailing to welcome me to the company, insisting that I become parts of meetings – luckily, I am a firm believer of jump in with both feet and see if you swim. So far, so good. Today was probably the busiest day I’ve had so far – I came in to projects lined up waiting for me in my inbox and spent 3 hours on the phone in a meeting then training session. It’s a good thing I can multitask – or that I’m feeling comfortable enough to start multi-tasking.

You'd be a little worried too if you saw this in your place, yes?

It seems that whenever things are going well, something is going to happen to make life a little more difficult. Last night, while changing the cat litter in the bathroom, I looked up at the hall ceiling and saw that. –>

Yes, that would be a part of my ceiling falling out because of the surrounding wet spot. Knowing how my apartment complex is about using the “emergency number”  – this would not have qualified for an emergency, as there was no water pouring from the ceiling – I took a picture and posted it on Twitter, natch, and called the main number, hoping to leave a message. Nope. The machine was turned off. Great. So I called this afternoon, and to the Property Manager’s credit, he sent someone out as soon as I called. How do I know? I got home to a note and a very large hole in my hallway ceiling. The note just asked that I clear off the top of my fridge and the cabinet up there and they’d be back tomorrow. It looks like they’ve found the source of the leak – and hopefully it will be fixed soon, but really? I have to deal with this now?

Round 1, done.

Yes, this was from Wednesday night’s game – that nerve-wracking, gut wrenching, double OT game – I know that. The sentiment, however, is the same. History will be red. Today’s series-clincher for us has proven that we want this. Not that that’s ever been questioned, not really. But this game? It showed that we are willing to work for the Cup. That we won’t let the old superstitions about Game 5s get to us. It’s a new season, a new game, and a new opponent. Now onto Round 2 – we’ll find out our opponent soon enough. If the guys can keep the momentum going, if we, as the fans, can keep the energy flowing (in his post-game interview with John Carlson, Karl Alzner said “[The fans] come to bat for us every single time. They are the reason why we have so much energy.”), we can do this. One round at a time. Let’s do this, Caps!