1. When I started my last job, I had a corner of a room shared with Accounting - we didn’t really have cubes or anything, and almost nobody had a separate office, but there were miscellaneous cube-esque walls chopping up the space every now and again. By the time I got laid off, I had moved up to an almost-office - a three-and-a-half-walled corner that nobody had to walk through to get anywhere else. Here, though, it’s cubes galore. I wasn’t kidding the other day about getting lost between my desk and the bathroom - I work in a giant building with several floors laid out in exactly the same way, and I couldn’t remember which row my cube was in until, like, yesterday. It’s a pretty nice cube, as far as cubes go, but it’s definitely an alien environment still. I am not used to being a little worker bee in the big IT honeycomb.

2. The fact that I am spending eight hours a day in a cube for really the first time ever - previous cube-jobs have always been part time - plus the fact that this is really quite a monstrously big company, with all the red tape and assorted hilarity that entails, has left me dying to watch Office Space again. That might have to be one of my study breaks this weekend.

3. I thought I was getting my money’s worth with the corn muffins from the coffee cart guys scattered around the Village, until I discovered that when you’re this close to the Financial District, they give you toasted corn muffins.

4. On a similarly snack-related note - since I’m often working nights until school is out, the coffee maker in the kitchen does not usually have any fresh office coffee to keep me going because nobody but me really drinks coffee at 10pm. So I’ve been making do with moderately-caffeinated iced tea from one of the vending machines, and I’ve concluded that they must be putting something highly addictive in this stuff because it’s easily the best iced tea ever. And it’s vending machine iced tea! Cracktea!

5. Just a couple of weeks ago I was musing that I haven’t gotten sick since Christmas, which is quite a long time since we’re talking about my fucked-up immune system here. But then this morning I woke up with that horrible burny sore throat and swollen tonsils and my sinuses are full of crap, so I’m a little uncomfortable on the whole. I don’t know if it’s the lack of sleep catching up with me already or what, but I think either way I’ll be sleeping in tomorrow morning.