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Two Most Awesome Things About My First Day At Work:

• Standard Operating Procedure Policy A7: Format and Development of Standard Operating Procedures and Policies
• Standard Operating Procedure Policy A8: Policy and Procedure Approval and Review

Honestly? Reading procedural manuals does not top my list of Most Awesome Things To Do. It's even ranked much, much lower than watching people play poker. Which, you know. So much fun and all.

But really, let's try that again and make it all positive and shit.

Three Most Awesome Things About My First Day At Work:

• "The water cooler doesn't really cool water anymore. We had to unplug it because it kept catching on fire."
• Inadvertently making a coworker blush.
• #9 on the Must-Do-to-have-a-happy-Admin list: Talk to Jeff's plants.

Besides not getting a computer logon and having to spend AT LEAST half of my day reading* procedural manuals, and despite a little bit of heart-thumping anxiety before answering my first phone call (I mean, OMG, I don't even know everyone's name yet; what if someone calls for Jane and I page Jane except Jane is standing right in front of me?), it was an all right day.

The nerves that kept me up much too late last night and then kept me tossing and turning once I did get to sleep have me beat. But the journey of a thousand miles, and all that. Yay for first steps.

* By which I mean skimming**.
** By which I mean staring blankly at the pages until enough time had passed that I felt comfortable turning them.