Gainful Once More

Three days into my new job I am wondering how I ever managed to be bored at my old one. I remember all those hours I idled procrastinating on work with 3-week deadlines, checking the gossip sites several times a day, updating my Facebook profile, strategically planning my next cigarette break.

Today I arrived at work at 9:00 a.m. sharp. I read Nexis and Google Mail alerts for an hour before today's assignments crashed down around me. Three press releases in one day, interspersed by a three hour long campaign and communications meeting. I ate lunch with one hand, while I typed with another, every now and then reminding myself to breath. Somewhere in there my boss came in and said we'd have to get together to evaluate another of our colleague's strengths and weaknesses so we could better assign her work.

We. Us. Assign work. Now there's a first.