Day 4....

Week one of my new job is coming to an end and I can honestly say that I am pretty happy with this new positon. This morning I have stolen away to the library to do some illegal blogging and online shopping. Oh yeah, and research! You may be asking what I am researching or you may not give a shit. Either way, I will share. I am compiling a database know everything there is to know about predicting land use/ land change patterns. Exciting, huh? Actually I am finding it interesting but a bit over my head. Yesterday, I started reading about artificial neural networks, fractal chaos theory, and differential equations. Before you say "hey betagirl, you sure are smart!" let me reiterate that the bulk of this was WAY over my head. I get the basics but fuck if I know what the hell their talking about. All in all, things are good.

I am having some difficulty getting adjusted to the whole business casual thing though. Today I have on some wide leg chinos from Jcrew that I had to tape the hem of because I don't know of a good alterations place. Every now and then when I am walking down the hall you can hear the tape crackling. Inside I am laughing but outside I am a bit embarrassed. I think the people working on my hall are giving me mixed whats-appropriate-to-wear-to-work signals. Sometimes they are in jeans and sometimes they are in ties. I am just confused. The old guy across the hall likes to make me slack off in the morning, too. He is always offering me coffee or the paper first thing in the AM. Then he sits down and reads the paper in his office for the fist hour and a half of being there. Is this the lifestyle of a university worker? If so, I say...YES!

Outside of work life is pretty calm. I have been working out a lot, sleeping and eating a lot, hanging with the boy a lot, and playing with my dog a lot. Not a bad way to spend some free time. Not too bad at all.