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sunday, june 20, 1999, 01:03 the first two days of work have been fun. though i don't think that it's really hit me that this is a full-time job where i'm going to be for a while where i'm not getting summers off any more and i'm actually doing real work and where i'm going to have to find a real place to live in the real world. no, for me, this still feels like a summer job. that will change, i have no doubt. but work. at work i hacked a bunch of perl. and while i haven't been working on anything mission-critical, the reports that i generated were of interest to some higher-ups and it made me feel like i was actually doing something useful. not only that, but i got to use my brain. i was sitting in my chair, in front of my computer, staring at my pad of paper trying to puzzle through a problem and found myself actually enjoying the challenge. it was like school, only interesting. i just spent a bit over an hour working on this web page. freelance gig, you know? and when it was all over, i realized that i had done it all wrong and that all my work was wasted. so i trashed it. i should have gone to bed two hours ago when elaine did. elaine's up visitng me. i went down yesterday after work and came to the comclusion that i like new jersey transit much less than new york's metro north. stayed down there overnight, went shopping this morning. i spent sixty dollars at the gap. this never happens. why is it starting now? ah yes, it's because i'm starting to care what i look like. and that requires money, i guess. or so they tell me. but i write it up to good purchases. so it's okay. and then we went to buy cds, and i got a whole bunch of good-ass music. so that was a productive day. then we drove back here and we spent a lazy evening watching tv. ahhh. four years of college taught me that you never pass up a good thing. i finally learned that lesson.
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