Today I crashed our payroll database at work… oops!!\u00a0\u00a0 I won’t get into how one manages to do that but it’s not that difficult, I mean I managed to do it easily enough!\u00a0\u00a0 I was a bit worried when my colleague told me I had done it, but then all the girls in my department cheered and told me that I’m officially part of the crowd.\u00a0\u00a0 Apparently everyone does it when they were new so they were more or less waiting to see how long it would take.<\/p>\n
Being back in the working world has been weird, tiring, scary, exhausting (yeah I know that means the same as tiring but I want to use both just to get the point across of how shit tired I am) but it’s also incredibly satisfying.<\/p>\n
Now I’m just passing the time and hoping that they like me and the way I work enough to keep me on.\u00a0\u00a0 I think it will take me every bit of three months to really catch on to everything there (yeah, seriously… there really is that much to learn and remember).\u00a0\u00a0 So, if I’m let go at the end of this contract I’ll weep long and hard.<\/p>\n
If it is extended though, I’ve decided that that the first thing I’m going to do is buy a scooter.\u00a0 You know, a Vespa type thingie… only probably not an actual Vespa.\u00a0\u00a0 The trams are so busy and packed on the way to and from work, I hate it.\u00a0\u00a0 Correction, I don’t really like it now but it’s ok… I just know that once the weather warms up, I will<\/strong> hate it.<\/p>\n In this weather you get nice cool gusts of air at each stop, people are wearing enough clothing to mask any stink they may have going on, and your clothes and theirs act as a nice buffer when you are squished together.\u00a0\u00a0 In the summer, all that goes straight out the window.\u00a0\u00a0 The tram has no air conditioning, and if it does they never bother to put it on so it’s like a greenhouse on rails.\u00a0 When the doors open you get… nothing!\u00a0 Just more people to take up the limited space and air.\u00a0\u00a0 Those people are often wearing as little clothing as possible and (god give me strength) rarely have sleeves (if this is your first visit, I hate armpits more than anything).\u00a0\u00a0 Any damp stinky places aren’t covered well enough to stop it from wafting around in the tram, and when you get pressed together it rubs off on you.<\/p>\n GROSSSSSSSSSSSSS!<\/p>\n Getting a car is completely out of the question because I’d spend half my pay on parking.\u00a0\u00a0 So a scooter is the obvious choice, vroom vroom!<\/p>\n If you’re a Dutchie, or have been exposed to one for a long period of time I just know you are wondering why I don’t just cycle to work.\u00a0\u00a0 To that I say, oh hells no!\u00a0 Have we met?\u00a0 Like, have you ever read this blog?\u00a0 I don’t do bikes.<\/p>\n