The world of work

After my first day of working and commuting by train I can tell you that, contrary to expectations of lovely relaxing reading periods, I already despise travelling by train. Or rather, to be more pedantically accurate, what I hate is those periods where you're not travelling by train, but are instead hanging around platforms waiting for trains that are cancelled or just late. On the way home today I got both, one after the other, which had the end result of letting me get home just over two hours after I left the office - conversely, getting to the office this morning took about 50 minutes.

On the bright side, however, I did get a lot of reading done today. I'm going to have to be careful not to bring books that are too engrossing; I'll end up going straight past one or both of the stations where I disembark.

Today was standard introductory stuff: lots of filling in forms, wandering around to meet everyone and to get some idea of the layout of the building (I'm going to get so lost; the building I work in really is a maze of twisty little corridors, all alike), setting up my shiny new laptop and acquainting me with the intranet, for which they use the plodding IE5.0. Five. Point nought. (I don't think I'll get very far recommending Mozilla Firebird.) A good 70-80% of their markup could easily be stripped out or replaced - I was actually wincing when I Viewed Source. It was painful. Really.

And now I'm back to getting up at 6:30am, which means that I'm actually really tired now. Off to bed at 10:30pm? Gah.