Working Guy

One of these days I’m sure I’ll settle into a routine and things won’t seem so hectic.

I now have a couple of days of work at GSK under my belt, and I like how things are shaping up. Lots to absorb and plenty of training will be on the agenda for the first little while. It’s all so organized, which is quite the contrast from grad school life; in other words, it’s right up my alley.

I still have some unpacking and organizing to do, as I was in Ottawa from Thursday through Sunday. More on that trip later.

Before the move to ‘sauga (as some locals are wont to say), I bid a farewell to Waterloo. It’s hard to believe that I’d been living there for over five straight years; between school terms and work at RIM and on campus, I just seemed to be a permanent fixture in the area. And despite most of my frosh class being long gone and a number of good friends from RIM moving on, there were still plenty of folks to say goodbye to.

After my visit to Sudbury, I caught up with Jenny in her office on Tuesday. We had a chance to chat, and then hit up East Side Mario’s for lunch in the plaza. At lease she’ll be able to carry on the presence from our original AM with engineering electives class on campus.

On Wednesday evening, I had dinner with Kelli and Sarah B at Lucy’s. Patrick was supposed to join us, but after leaving work to take his cat to the vet, he completely forgot about it! He caught up with us later while we were still at the restaurant to apologize; it was such an un-Patrick thing, so we of course had to give him a hard time. It seemed like forever since I had seen Sarah, since every time we try to get together as a group she’s away traveling for work. The life of a jet-setting marketer, I guess.

The next day, Kelli snuck me into RIM 2 so I could say hey to some folks who I get to see even less. I was able to catch up with Elsa and AJ, and see Patrick and Eddy again. Richard found me just before he had to head off. Unfortunately Liz was busy with meetings in her office; probably putting out fires and saving the company, what else is new? There were a few other people I didn’t get to see, so some emails will be in order, but I also ran into other familiar faces in the SAP and business systems groups.

Afterwards, I cleaned out my office on campus, and said my goodbyes to some fellow grad students. That night, I was back on RIM campus to pick up Greg after work and he was able to get me a bunch of computer monitor boxes from new user setups — very handy for the packing process. With a couple of his coworkers, we went to Moose Winooski’s for some of their damn fine wings. I’m gonna miss those.

Besides all that, I managed to fit in some packing. Heather completed her own move out on the Thursday; I decided to avoid the awkward situation of proposing to her before she left.