Jobness

Well, I start working full-time today. Surprisingly easy to get up on time; I left myself extra time to get to Metacarta HQ, so now I have 15 minutes to abuse someone's internet and scout the surroundings. I'm actually excited about this, it should be fun. It's great to be back. Oh, SaraH (Hopp) was on the same flight as me again yesterday... this time it's not even a monotonically logical time to travel. Go figure. Oh, and everyone loves my tie-die socks.

I've figured out that the Safari feature I miss in Firefox is spell-check-as-you-type. I should quest for an extension that does that.

Oh, I've got zephyr working locally on Gigo now! Well, as long as I have a hostname. So, not at home, and probably not on this sketchy connection. I should be able to get Metacarta internet permissions, and maybe even a hostname, but I can survive without local Zephyr, so whatever. (Zephyr being an MITish IM protocol, for you not MIToids.)

Foreshadowing

Have you ever noticed that real life sometimes foreshadows, or at least pretends to? I've been working at Metacarta since last Fall. Never in all that time did anything connect it to 5th East at all. Yesterday, I was talking to SaraH, and she mentioned that she'd heard that a lot of 5th East cruft worked there. This morning I read a comment from Jessie saying the same basic thing. So, I'm waiting for the elevator after work, when this woman walks up. She's dressed sorta sketchily. Needless to say, I wasn't too surprised when she said, "Is that a Jack button on your backpack?" I replied, "Yes. Are you one of these 5th East cruft I've heard so much about?" Turns out her name's Rachel, she lived on Florey 3 years and in Senior 1, and 2 former Fearless Leaders now work at Metacarta. Made my day.

Work was funnish. Spent most of the day osmosising Javascript and some code and such. Well, homewards then.