With work continuing on apace at the ever awesome office, I have taken the following notes on the comparison between working in the office and at home:
1) Butt scratching and nose picking at work severely frowned upon
2) No more working in bed
3) Eating at work still ok
4) Farting highly discouraged
5) No wushu at work
So far, it's great. They have tea, just as I have tea at home. There is fruit to eat, just like the fruit at home. Sometimes there is cake, which is never at home. And my daylight drinking has gone through the roof since starting here. It's gone from: 'None At All' to 'Whoo! Meeting!' It's good to work for pirates.
And while the bodily constraints may be something to get used to, it's all made worth it by the fact that my immediate supervisor sits just to my left. I catch him looking over at me occasionally with what would be an inscrutable expression were I not so intimately acquainted with the looks from people that follow the odd through life. It's something along the lines of, "Is she going to shoot flames across the surface of her desk? ... Is that a family of voles she has living in her wastebasket?"
I'm sure that his more realistic concerns are that I'm going to prove unreliable, unstable, and untrustworthy, but right under that there's the concern Desk Fire.
It may all be because of my boss. My boss is delightfully quirky. He's been clomping around the office in these large galoshy leather boots and three piece wool suits all week. While this is fantastic if you are the tried-and-proven man in charge that everybody knows is competent, it's much more questionable in the new guy underling. And since (I believe) my boss was one of the people that thought I should work here, the concern may be that I'll turn out to be more of the 'secretly collecting everybody's toenail parings after work' variety of weird than 'harmless and amusing'.
Last week I wore a bronze headband to work. I'll have to come up with something new for when the supervisor gets back from vacation. I wouldn't want his job to become boring. Yo ho ho!