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Feb. 6th, 2002 10:59 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geekchickToday is Boomtime, day 37 in the season of Chaos, 3168.
Work seems to be going well, although I'm still adjusting to being not-root on somebody else's machine. I'm so used to just going out and building anything I need that having to adjust my mindset to the new Way Things Are Done[tm] is kind of hard. I know that one day I won't feel like I don't know anything, it's just frustrating right now to not be able to answer a lot of questions (although I've already developed a little library of canned responses for the questions that keep coming in over and over again, all of which are answered on the web site) or feel like I've made any sort of real contribution. This is only my fourth week there though, and all of last week was spent in Texas at the annual meeting, so I suspect I'm not doing too badly. Need to get a good XP administration book and brush up on that, which will probably help me feel like I've got more clue. I also really need to learn perl, I should remember to look for reasonably-priced classes in March. The cow-orkers are all really nice and we all seem to get along pretty well, which is a big win. I'm feeling less like an outsider, especially after last week's trip. It's not that anyone there made me feel that way, it's just the adjustment period of coming in to a new environment where everyone else has known each other for a long time, and being shy on top of that.
I thought that I was going to go into withdrawal from IM conversations when I started this job, but oddly it hasn't seemed to work that way. I'm pretty much okay with not being on a chat client all day long, even if I did just download Trillian. I think the reason I spent so much time on AIM before was because I wanted to at least feel like I had some contact with other people even though I spent most of the time alone here in the house. Since I'm surrounded by other people during the day now, I don't miss IM quite as much as I thought I would (although there are a few people I kind of miss chatting with as they're not on much in the evenings). And even if I did, I've got so many conference calls to sit in on now that I don't have uninterrupted time for AIM. ;) I'm not sure how someone who hates the phone as much as I do ended up with a job that involves sitting in on regular conference calls.
I decided tonight I had to get Winnie the Pooh dressed up as Elvis to entertain me while on the phone; naturally I have the ability to be drawn immediately to the single bear in a pleather outfit amongst the shelves full of other "Pooh and friends in costumes" characters. Maybe I should bring in the cat I made at Build-a-Bear, the one with the black pleather biker jacket, white boa and sparkly tiara. (The salesguy who helped me with it enjoyed putting that outfit together with me far too much, it was fun.) I had meant to get a stuffed "Grumpy", but I missed the mad sale on stuffed stuff and they were back up to full price. D'oh. After writing a $1700 check for rent, the words "mad sale" are my best friends for a while.
Work seems to be going well, although I'm still adjusting to being not-root on somebody else's machine. I'm so used to just going out and building anything I need that having to adjust my mindset to the new Way Things Are Done[tm] is kind of hard. I know that one day I won't feel like I don't know anything, it's just frustrating right now to not be able to answer a lot of questions (although I've already developed a little library of canned responses for the questions that keep coming in over and over again, all of which are answered on the web site) or feel like I've made any sort of real contribution. This is only my fourth week there though, and all of last week was spent in Texas at the annual meeting, so I suspect I'm not doing too badly. Need to get a good XP administration book and brush up on that, which will probably help me feel like I've got more clue. I also really need to learn perl, I should remember to look for reasonably-priced classes in March. The cow-orkers are all really nice and we all seem to get along pretty well, which is a big win. I'm feeling less like an outsider, especially after last week's trip. It's not that anyone there made me feel that way, it's just the adjustment period of coming in to a new environment where everyone else has known each other for a long time, and being shy on top of that.
I thought that I was going to go into withdrawal from IM conversations when I started this job, but oddly it hasn't seemed to work that way. I'm pretty much okay with not being on a chat client all day long, even if I did just download Trillian. I think the reason I spent so much time on AIM before was because I wanted to at least feel like I had some contact with other people even though I spent most of the time alone here in the house. Since I'm surrounded by other people during the day now, I don't miss IM quite as much as I thought I would (although there are a few people I kind of miss chatting with as they're not on much in the evenings). And even if I did, I've got so many conference calls to sit in on now that I don't have uninterrupted time for AIM. ;) I'm not sure how someone who hates the phone as much as I do ended up with a job that involves sitting in on regular conference calls.
I decided tonight I had to get Winnie the Pooh dressed up as Elvis to entertain me while on the phone; naturally I have the ability to be drawn immediately to the single bear in a pleather outfit amongst the shelves full of other "Pooh and friends in costumes" characters. Maybe I should bring in the cat I made at Build-a-Bear, the one with the black pleather biker jacket, white boa and sparkly tiara. (The salesguy who helped me with it enjoyed putting that outfit together with me far too much, it was fun.) I had meant to get a stuffed "Grumpy", but I missed the mad sale on stuffed stuff and they were back up to full price. D'oh. After writing a $1700 check for rent, the words "mad sale" are my best friends for a while.
That isn't Elvis
Date: 2002-02-07 07:00 pm (UTC)Re: That isn't Elvis
Date: 2002-02-07 07:18 pm (UTC)