{"id":2818,"date":"2004-09-24T01:38:29","date_gmt":"2004-09-24T15:38:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/one-week-in\/"},"modified":"2019-12-11T09:13:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T17:13:48","slug":"one-week-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2004\/09\/24\/one-week-in\/","title":{"rendered":"One week in"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:8822,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/click.linksynergy.com\\\/fs-bin\\\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve made it to the end of my first week on &#8220;banking hours&#8221;, and you know&#8230;I think I just might be able to get used to this. While I&#8217;m still definitely no great morning person, it hasn&#8217;t been <em>quite<\/em> as difficult forcing myself out of bed when the alarm goes off at 6:30am as I was afraid it might, and I&#8217;m definitely enjoying both getting off work at 5pm and working this close to home. These days, I can walk out of work, hit the corner store on the way back to the apartment, and still be home by 5:15pm. Not bad at all.<\/p>\n<p>The job&#8217;s been interesting this week, too. As my new position is primarily administrative and organizational &#8212; accepting jobs from the company I&#8217;m placed at, setting them up, and then sending them off to one of our main stores to be printed, after which they&#8217;re returned to me and I deliver them to the clients &#8212; I&#8217;ve been spending each day with a few hours at the new position and a few hours at one of the two stores I&#8217;ll be working most closely with, to give me some time to meet the people I&#8217;ll be working with when I send orders over for printing. Many of these people I&#8217;d spoken do on the phone at one time or another, but it&#8217;s been good to put faces to names, and to spend some time getting to know them a bit better than just over the phone.<\/p>\n<p>Another benefit I&#8217;ve found to having evenings open &#8212; socialization! When I was getting off work at 9pm and not making it home until around 10:15pm on my old schedule, there just wasn&#8217;t a whole lot going on outside of the bar or club circuit (which I enjoy, but I&#8217;m not about to do every night). With real evenings free, though, there are a lot more opportunities. Wednesday evening I got together with some of the guys from work at the Elysian brewery up the street (though I&#8217;ve never been a beer drinker, the food and soda were just fine), and last night Rick came over and hung out for a while. Aside from my evenings out at the Vogue or Prairie coming in on the weekends, I&#8217;ve had something of a hermit life for the past few years since I moved down to Seattle &#8212; maybe it&#8217;s about time for that to change, huh?<\/p>\n<p>All in all, while the mornings are still a little rough, I think this is definitely going to be a positive change.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/click.linksynergy.com\/fs-bin\/click?id=xLsJkztrnNY&amp;offerid=78941.10000002&amp;subid=0&amp;type=4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" width=\"61\" height=\"15\" alt=\"iTunes\" src=\"http:\/\/images.apple.com\/itunesaffiliates\/logos\/iTunes_sm_bdg61x15.png\"><\/a> &#8220;Candyman Collapse (Radio Version)&#8221; by Connelly, Chris from the album <em>Afterburn: Wax Trax! Records &#8217;94 and Beyond<\/em> (1994, 3:55).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve made it to the end of my first week on &#8216;banking hours&#8217;, and you know&hellip;I think I just might be able to get used to this. All in all, while the mornings are still a little rough, I think this is definitely going to be a positive change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","tag-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}