Entry for January 08, 2008

I went to work earlier than usual today, because i had a early meeting...I barely had enough time to hit the starbucks (remember when there used to be coffee shops- and now they are gone and we have all these corporate coffee stores) and get settled into the daily grind.

When i got back from the meeting, where everyone had a discussion that was leading to a obvious conclusion of me having to do a project outline( hey I only have 3 more days here people!!!) I started plowing through the first round of overnight email, and saw this one:

Subject: Green light

Curious, I looked at the sender, and saw it was from my new job. It read in part:

Canice– Our HR Office has given us the green light regarding your appointment and start date of the 14^th. You asked about the parking arrangements. Our parking is a third party arrangement - There is open parking as well as assigned parking (more expensive). .... Any questions let me know. Looking forward to your joining us on Monday!

This was GREAT, because they said I had the job, but needed to work out "some details"...apparently to make sure they had approval and funding. Yay!!!

I also(bad me) over heard my coworkers conspiring to throw some sort of party, and then was walking abck from the paper recycle dumpster (cleaning out your work area makes you realize you probably saved too many papers) and a person i know stopped me and says "Wow, I got the invitation to the party tomorrow, congrats on your new job!!"

So I gathered there were about 200 people invited, which i was shocked i know that many people there...but its true, when on a big project, you meet a lot of people...

Now, do I dress up or dress like usual??? I think usual, otherwise they might not recognize me, although sort of nice since there is bound to be cameras involved...OMG, cameras, and friends, there is likely to be tears as well.... Happy tears though, which is OK.

My co-workers want to also take me to lunch Friday...

and then at the end of the day, our Office Chief comes by and says he wants to try to get me to stay, and I about laughed at him...they are all so nice, and I told them if they had offered me a FT job I'd stay, but now its like too little too late, ya know?