The Party Got Really Good After You Left
Posted by erin at September 21, 2004 06:45 PMSooooo at my new job things are pretty good so far. I seem to work very hard part of the time, followed by long intervals of doing nothing at all. Normally I'd pace out my work so it appears that I'm working the whole time, but the current nature of the work is kind of like, "So-and-so-needs-this-really-soon".
I haven't fallen into a rhythm of eating lunch yet. At KND I ate at the lunch table for an uncomfortable time (as covered in my comic strips), until I moved into the color lab and ate at my desk. I always packed a lunch because that was more affordable. Now that I'll be drawing regular paychecks and I work every day, I could, potentially, afford to buy much more often. And there are tons of places to buy lunch in the Village, boy howdy, but not that many places to eat it. I hesitate to just go to restaurants by myself, so buying food at one of the many, many deli-type establishments is a reasonable option however, delis don't generally have seating, and public space in the Village, particularly around NYU, fills up real fast with students and what not. I could buy food and bring it back but then, at work, there's not exactly a cafeteria to eat it in, or even a break room. There's just the conference table, out in the middle of the work area. There's a problem with that in that all of my new coworkers will see me eating alone, reading a book.
A lot of people on my new "crew" go to lunch together, but they don't tend to ask me. I don't sit right near them, so they often sneak out without me noticing. I ate with them last Friday because they went to get food to bring back and eat at the conference table. Then I ate my packed lunch with them, which was nice.
Mostly I'm just complaining like this because it's difficult to be at a new job until one falls into the rhythm of things. Once I figure out how I fit in and whom to eat lunch with and where to eat it, things will get a lot easier. Not to mention as soon as I have a steady supply of work and when I know how to do it... that'll be easier too.
In the meantime N. and I have gone to several parties lately. Coworker-Mike's party last weekend was pretty freaking cool. N. and I showed up first and stayed until everyone else left, because N. and I are drinking like we have something to prove. That's right - we didn't get invited to those types of parties in high school, so now we're making up for it.
Last Friday me and Alison threw our "we lost again!" Tokyopop-sucks party. I didn't get a lot of RSVPs (so I didn't request any, whatever), so I thought only four people were coming. Instead a ton of people showed up and a good time was had by all! Particularly after Hal and Kerry and Rick left. Somehow, even with Kerry drinking (??!) the party got a lot cooler after they were gone.
On Saturday N. and I hung out with Jake and Maggie and Ryan, and discussed this new ZeroG service thingy, among other things - things like PHIL FOGLIO LIKING MY COMIC! OK, so he only saw one panel, according to Jake, but he totally said "I would so hire that person." Which is more impressive to N. than anyone else.
On Sunday N. and I went to check out the ArtBots in Harlem, but like, a different part of Harlem than where we live. In fact, N. and I totally failed to cross 6th Ave on the way there because of some crazy Jamaican parade. Out on the streets near the parade were the random Harlem street-barbecues that I've become accustomed to seeing. If there's a bank holiday or a blackout or a three-day-weekend people in Harlem throw up one of those tent-like-things and break out the lawn chairs and throw a barbecue on the sidewalk or in Central Park. I guess everyone else in America has barbecues on summer weekends too, but you don't really see it, because it's on a deck behind a white picket fence inside the backyard of some gated community or something.
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September 23, 2004 01:01 PM, Halifax said:
Funny, I seem to remember staying until the bitter end.
September 23, 2004 06:53 PM, Kerry said:
Jerk! I checked my mail just to be sure, and you sent me TWO, yes TWO invitations emails to that party. Why the suprise when I decided to show up?
September 24, 2004 03:36 AM, Halifax said:
Your life, Cuffs, is a tapestry of lies.
September 24, 2004 10:51 AM, Erin said:
If my life was a tapestry of lies that I believed to be true, how would I know?
Anyhow, I guess that means both of Kerry's email addresses work.
Kerry, I invited you largely out of politeness. I didn't think you'd actually show up, seeing as how it was in Brooklyn and you have a wife and kid at home. I also didn't expect you'd drink.
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