Training it to München
The part to Hamburg was almost exactly what I hoped for: quietly rolling train, green countryside, noisy beer-drinking Danes going to Oktoberfest. Well, two out of three ain't bad. They played Meier most of the way, but with a silly rule where you can just pass on the dice. Wimpy!
As I'm getting closer, my worry about not being good enough increases. I keep telling myself that they accepted me, so if they were wrong, it's their fault. I just don't feel like my design and code is up to Google standards. I know it's silly, and I'm just being a worry-wart. Once surrounded by nerds like me and in a good development process, I will do fine. I must.
Also: never trust a wok place whose woks are squeaky clean. They heated my dinner in a microwave! Should have dragged my suitcases a little further in to the Syrian place, it looks interesting.
After spending a rather chilly hour and a half waiting for my connection, I got onto the night train. Space was very much at a premium, it was a three-dimensional puzzle to get my two rather large suitcases stored for the night. I ended up not sleeping very well, partly due to having slept on the first train out of sheer panicked exhaustion, partly due to Jante really rearing his ugly head. Working as equals with some of the smartest programmers in the worlds does not easily cohabitate a brain that has "Thou shalt not think thyself better than the rest of us" subtly engraved in it since childhood. Gotta deal with it; I'm here, and it would be such a waste of effort if I just collapsed into a stupid heap of self-denigration.
Anyway, after a fitful sleep (fits 1 through 4, for snarkers), we got to München at 7:30 - half an hour late! Whatever happened to German railways and their world-famous punctuality? Oh, right, they got privatized, never mind. I dragged one suitcase into storage, only to find that the other one had bent wheels and was scraping itself apart on the sidewalk. Kinda disappointing for the otherwise very nifty High Sierra backpack/duffle/luggages. Due to that, I for once took a cab even over an otherwise walkable distance and got to Marienplatz with time to spare for a lazy breakfast.
Next up: my first day at Google! But that'll be tomorrow, as my body is crying out for proper sleep.
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