First day at the real job

I had forgotten how much I hate the cube farm. The sound of loud air conditioning systems and the dryness of the air. My eyes are still burning.

Not to mention that I could have used a CD player and earphones so the noises were less distracting. And, oh yes, glasses? I keep forgetting how old I am and how sitting in front of a computer screen all day will kill my eyes.

But I survived my first day without anyone pointing at me and shouting Fraud! She's not a writer. In fact, she has few brain cells left!

It was weird, sitting in my first engineering team meeting after 5 years. Surrounded by geeks again. Listening to people going on and on about service connection points and ports and firewalls. I really need to work on my mask. I'm having a hard time pulling off looking interested for an hour.

I was pretty exhausted by the time I picked up the wee ones at school today. So I'm impressed at the 2738 words I pushed out tonight. Maybe there is hope that I can complete this novel this month. I think I will take Wednesday's off since Wednesday is my night out with friends and I don't want to have to plug in 1500 words at 10:00 when I get home. That could be disastrous.

So my total is 22269. I could be halfway by tomorrow.