Current location:	work
Current mood:	groggy
Entry tags:	movies, work

She was gonna be an actress / And I was gonna learn to fly.
I woke up half an hour early this morning because that dripping noise did not sound like it was coming from the bathroom or outside; my window was leaking prodigiously. I put a towel on the carpet, but the water was kind of streaming down the outside wall of the building and spreading over the blinds and dripping all over the air conditioner, so I hope maintenance can figure out how to seal it up before it causes any damage.

Oh! Alex and George came over to help me install my headboard last night, and we went to see Get Smart at the giant swanky theater down the road. I have no idea if it was true to the original series, but I loved the crap out of it. (OMG the nerdy tech guys were so cute! Also I want their job!) The whole thing held together pretty well, though I didn't understand a couple of the transitions, and it was actually laugh-a-minute funny. Your mileage may vary, but this movie hit my sweet spot so hard I might get it on DVD.

I've been praised for the quality of my documents and the rapidity of their creation, which is great. It's probably the first time in my life I've enjoyed writing papers! Because they actually mean something, they actually matter, and that was all I ever wanted from school. Assignments that don't matter aren't worth doing, and after years of reluctantly doing worthless things in the name of education, I'm finally out.

The work is calming and not very difficult. When I run out of things to do I ask for more things, and something can usually be found. If I get bored next year I can go on detail to another department for a few months. I can wear casual clothes to work (summer dress code is pretty much "don't come in naked and nobody will bother you") and my hours are pretty flexible. My coworkers are friendly and kind, and many of them are capital-C Characters. It's fun.

I never in all my years of dreaming saw myself in a place like this - I thought I'd be on the front lines of research, or voraciously climbing some corporate ladder - but honestly, it's been such a struggle just to normalize my sleep schedule so I can reliably come in before noon that it's just as well. This is all I can take for now, and it might be all I can take for a long time, or forever. And maybe I can learn to accept that, eventually.