Week Start

Today was a pretty uneventful day at work. Well, I got my business cards in so that was the highlight of the day. I stared at them for around 5 minutes, because it's my first business card ever and it looks really professional, having my name with Design Release Engineer underneath it. It even has a fax number on it.

It's still that stage in work where you don't really know what to do. I know what my job is, but I'm not sure how to actually conduct it, or even if the work has really been "handed off" to me yet. The engineer that is working on the stuff I'm taking over is telling me things as they come up, but I don't think there's a lot to do now. I think they wanted a new person (me) to do this project, because it's honestly small compared to what other people are doing, and they have maybe 2-3 projects instead of just one. I think this may develop into a larger project, but it's good to start on something like this. I'll enjoy it when it picks up some. Right now, I'm always trying to find things to do to keep me occupied. From what I see from Tom, the other engineer who is doing the work that will be given to me, it's just a lot of answering emails. Literally, you just sit and answer emails as they come in, and usually the answers you give take some investigating and engineering knowledge. Which, leads me into my next topic: Offic subculture.

Someone should really do a study on this. Offic culture is so funny, and weird. You can see people walking around, acting like they have work to do, when they really just want to get up and walk around. Or, you see people talking in a whisper, so others won't hear. And, you know people listen in through the cubicle walls (like I do). It's almost like I want to stand up and just go "ok everyone, we're all trying to act professional, but let's stop the charade and just talk out loud, get up and walk around when we want, and stop the acting". It's just funny is all, not in a bad way, but just comical because it's just not natural.

I had vegetable and beef soup for dinner tonight, mainly because I forgot to take out something this morning before work. So, you can't really defrost anything in 2 hours. I had this ice cream for desert, which I'm guessing you can only get here in Michigan. It's called Makinac Island Fudge. Makinac Island is in northern Michigan. It's basically vanilla ice cream with fudge and chocolate pieces swirled in. It's pretty good. I ran out of apples today which is a shame because I love eating them. I was eating 1 a day but I'm out now.