NEW JOB NEW JOB!

Yay!

Want to know something spooky? Starting this weekend, Pumpkin started doing her version of echolocation when she is upstairs alone going to nap on the spare bed. Mister Kitty's spot. And I just got his ashes home. Pure coincidence, but ooooOOOOOoooo.

She's also taught Devi to cry at the door when I'm out on the deck. She's teaching these guys all sorts of new habits.

helicopter parents in the office. WTF.

Note: I had a graduate student's parent call me about her internship and I refused to speak to the woman. I said that the issue is something her daughter had to handle. I was not going to speak to her mother about it.

If more employers set appropriate boundaries, this shit would stop.

Yay for new job, msbelle!

But mostly I AM TIRED.

I highly recommend lowering your expectations of what you can accomplish outside work during weeknights for at least the next few weeks. Any new job, new skill, new language, taxes the brain and you may find yourself sleeping more and just... kind of braindead. Give yourself time to adjust. /unasked for advice based on extensive personal experience

oh hell yes. I had frozen dinner for tonight, but just cats, dog, and getting trash out was what I needed to do the second I got home. Mac did set in and helped with dog, so YAY!. But doing dishes nightly/or each morning is going to be key so my kitchen does not get out of control. Or maybe we will use paper plates for a few weeks.

There is something already at the new job I am going to have to feel out. When I interviewed and even after the verbal offer it seemed pretty clear that I would be reporting to one guy, now it turns out I am reporting to another one. The guy I report to now is higher up so that may be good, but the woman who was his report did not leave, she just shifted to the guy it was initially indicated that I would report to. No official announcement has gone out yet about the change, so I was in the position of telling several people today, like people in payroll and people who manage expensing and whatnot and there were a few raised eyebrows.

Huh, that's kind of odd. . . but still: new job! Congrats on a successful first day.

YAY new job! Fingers crossed that the weirdness turns out to be no big thing.

I hope it is not real weirdness either. No one was giving me the stink eye. My initial gut feeling is that the admin and VP guy were just not a good fit.

So I bet a lot of folks here know that Chuck Yeager was the first person to exceed the speed of sound (while flying the Bell X-1), and that he was a fighter pilot who flew the P-51 Mustang during WWII. Anyway, this account by his wife is awesome:

”..Shortly after we settled in, Chuck drove us to the base...

”..Shortly after we settled in, Chuck drove us to the base to show us the X-1. He purposely hadn’t told me he named the plane Glamorous Glennis, but there it was, written on the nose. He did that with his Mustang in England, but this was an important research airplane, and I was very surprised. And proud. He said, “You’re my good-luck charm, hon. Any airplane I name after you always brings me home..” “
Glennis Yeager. From “Yeager: An Autobiography”

Awww....

As new person, though, msbelle, if it is awkward, at least you have ignorance on your side.