Wouldn't you know it? I start a new job in a new office full of new people--and get all-new germs in the bargain!

*snif*

A head cold. How pathetic.

But I'm not letting that spoil my fun, nossir. I'm still enjoying having a job, and still enjoying having this job in particular. As usual, I'm already taking a look at the work with an eye to how it can all be made easier. (Making a big fuss and looking overwhelmed might be better job security but I'm really too lazy to actually work hard.)

For instance, there's this process--loading a new account. I did one last week and it took a solid eight hours of work. Ridiculous.

I talked to Webnetters, who own the software, got a software program I could use to work offline (always faster than updating online) along with a user manual (except that Real Men don't use manuals), dinked around with one-by-one updates for three days, then went back in to the source file data I was given when I started working here and reformatted it all to allow for mass importing.

Yesterday I loaded a new account in an hour. Today I messed around with the program and my files a little more and I just finished loading another new account--in fifteen minutes.

Waits politely for the applause to die down....

It's a good thing I streamlined the process--Gidget told me a little while ago that I'll have 5 new accounts to load in the next few days.

Mind you, this is all still the basic "work" of the job. I haven't gotten to the "strategic thinking" level because it was assumed that I had a rough 60 days in front of me, cleaning up the existing accounts, before I'd be ready to do anything else. (I'm thinking I might be ready a b it sooner than that.)

So, what else is new, I hear you asking.

Well, Monday evening I went out to my car after work only to discover that I'd left my headlights on that morning. 6 phone calls (four to find someone willing to come and give me a jumpstart, one to my hairdresser rescheduling my now-impossible appointment, and one to the R.C. just to complain about how I'm an idiot), 40 minutes, and $50 later, I crawled into my little comfy chair in my little apartment and swore never to leave again.

Tonight there's supposed to be a lunar eclipse. If the sky is clear, I'm going to go look at it. The sky isn't supposed to be clear, though.

Whaddya want from me? I've been working. I haven't had time to go out and do anything fun or interesting. If it didn't take five minutes for this program to upload my changes, I wouldn't be blogging at work anyhow.

It's not that I don't want to chat with you. I just--I hab a code id by dose and it makes it hard to think.