One week down, 13 to go. . .

I have been meaning to update all week, but have only now had the time and enough motivation.

I started work on Tuesday, which started out quite a struggle. I missed the #7 bus to work by only 30 seconds and when I finally got to Loughlinstown, I walked around for a good hour looking for my office. One thing that's difficult and foreign about Ireland, or this part at least, is that the streets are scarcely marked. So, by the time I got to work I was half an hour late rather than a few minutes early as I had planned.

Luckily, once I got to work, my day turned around a bit. I was greeted at reception by one of my team members who assured me that most people are a little late to work the first time because the place is tucked away. And, I met my supervisor who is incredibly friendly and excited to have me on the team, it seems.

It was raining on my bus-ride home, which I have learned to accept as a daily occurrence (at least twice). And, I thought to myself, "oh great, now I have to walk home in the rain." But, as soon as I got off the bus, the rain stopped. I turned around to see the biggest most vibrant rainbow I have ever seen! It was a sort of delayed objective correlative to my tumultuous morning, but very much appreciated all the same.

I received training on my day-to-day tasks, much of which involve maintaining a large dataset. I also volunteered to write a report on work-sharing.

By the time Friday came around, I was exhausted. I slept last night from about 7pm to 9am this morning.

The good news for today is that I have a meeting with a landlord in Dun Laoghaire tonight to discuss a lease agreement. The apartment looked very nice: spacious, clean, and most importantly quiet.

Things I am currently reading are:
Articles on liminality
Articles on modelling firm behavior
Articles on work sharing
Articles on European unemployment

I have some thoughts on my workplace and other sites of liminality, but I think I want to wait until I have collected them a little better.