Waiting

I've been at this new job for 4 days now, just chilling out, reading procedure documents, surfing the net and attending training courses.

They call it "the bench", where staff go to rest between the hardcore projects the company runs.

So they make it nice a comfy, there's free drinks, a room running the olympics all the time and even relatively flexible hours.

It makes life seem artificially soft for now, whilst I wait for them to assign me to a project of my own.

I see tired faces drift into the office and then out again,

I hear mutters like, oh well, weekend work for Telstra again.

For me? I get into the office, have breakfast, flip open a document and read. I pick up the phone and buzz the lady in Adelaide, organize flights for her. I go for walks in the city at lunch time, enjoying the rare sun beams that grace Melbourne in winter.

I stroll out at 5ish, feeling just a little tired but unstressed.

Geez I hope this doesn't end... oh wait, I do. I hope they send me to Adelaide.