One Month
May 01, 2004
April has been one long, challenging month. The first two weeks in my new position were marked with very little in duties. I felt people had higher expectations for me for some reason. I don’t like being treated like, “Oh he’s new so let’s take it easy on him”. I prefer, “I don’t care if he’s new, he should be doing as well as we are”. Since I and the other new people didn’t know what we were supposed to do, nothing was really done. It wasn’t until the second week until a million new people came into the company and began their training. Suddenly we found ourselves doing a million things at once. After two of the busiest weeks, I feel rather satisfied in what I’ve accomplished. In fact, I have to say job satisfaction has shot up two fold.
Anyway, how did I repay myself for a month of feeling like I actually worked? I go and have some yakiniku (bbq meat) and eat something bad and get diarrhea! Yay for diarrhea. It’s day 2.5 of diarrhea and I’m feeling like shit. Hehe. I’m trying to drink lots of water and sport drinks and I’m even eating but to no avail. I’m thinking it’s probably something more along the lines of gastroenteritis but I’m trying to fight this one out with diet and mind-over-matter control (“Don’t shit. Don’t shit. Don’t shit”).
Congratulations, jack ass.
