News?
Work is going really well. I think they have really low expectations of people coming in and learning their stuff, which is kind of nice because I don't really have any pressure yet. I'm managing to completely kick ass and way over-achieve on everything they've given me to do so far without really trying. As an example of that, my boss has the week off next week for xmas so he gave me a big list of things to work on that were supposed to tide me over. They took me two days to finish and so now I'm waiting on a bigger project.
I've actually been told by some of my chums that I need to be less productive now, because they might actually get to expecting things out of me. Apparently I should be space-cadetting and surfing the net more, and actually only being productive 4-6 minutes out of every 10. I've also had it insinuated that after 6 months I may be up for a 10% raise...apparently they hire GA Tech folk on at a higher starting salary and for other folk if they show themselves to be competent they too get bumped up.
In other news, Melissa is home and it is wondermous. We're probably going to start looking for a place to live in the next couple of weeks. I'm fairly excited (understatement) and also a bit nervous, but I think that I'm more nervous about not being nervous than I actually am nervous. If that made any sense.
Plans for the evening: bottle of red wine (91 on the robert parker wine index...*schnaaaarf*) and worlds of warcraft. SEXY!
I've actually been told by some of my chums that I need to be less productive now, because they might actually get to expecting things out of me. Apparently I should be space-cadetting and surfing the net more, and actually only being productive 4-6 minutes out of every 10. I've also had it insinuated that after 6 months I may be up for a 10% raise...apparently they hire GA Tech folk on at a higher starting salary and for other folk if they show themselves to be competent they too get bumped up.
In other news, Melissa is home and it is wondermous. We're probably going to start looking for a place to live in the next couple of weeks. I'm fairly excited (understatement) and also a bit nervous, but I think that I'm more nervous about not being nervous than I actually am nervous. If that made any sense.
Plans for the evening: bottle of red wine (91 on the robert parker wine index...*schnaaaarf*) and worlds of warcraft. SEXY!