After all of the orientation presentation stuff, I met up with my appointed mentor, who is in the same general group as me. He's been awesome. After a few batches of introductions, it was so late in the day that there wasn't going to be enough time to get much more done.. so instead he invited me to play sheepshead with a random selection of coworkers. This was amusing, because despite Mary McC's efforts to educate me about cards, I am terrible. But my coworkers were kindhearted and after I demonstrated my inability to play cards, I switched to being an observer. We got some time to chat, which was really what it was all about anyway. After cards I also had dinner at work (they serve it around 6:30 every night), and then I stayed until 10pm, reading up on all sorts of fun benefits and internal activities lists. I signed up for the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge in San Francisco, making this the second time this year that I will have run in that race series. I wonder if this company will have decent racing swag (the previous company did a decent job this year.)
I've got a minor cold, which sucks, but I'm so pumped about work that it hasn't held me back. That will probably catch up with me soon enough, so I'm going to watch out for that. Speaking of that, there's a whole lot more I could write about, but I am dog tired and I must get some sleep. Remind me later this week to write about such things as:
- Adventures with my MacBook
- Why it probably wasn't a good idea to send flowers to one of my friends in NYC
- The food
- Motivation for walking/biking/running to work every day
- Giant dinosaurs
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