Thursday was a very long day.

Today was also a long day, although not “very.”

I actually just got in the door a few minutes ago. Would’ve been home sooner, but I swung past the grocery store to deposit my paycheck (OMG it’s huge!) and get some groceries. I stayed later than I would’ve otherwise because of an after-work happy hour scheduled for tonight: beer $5, miniburgers & fries $12, missing the bulk of rush-hour while socializing with co-workers, priceless. It’s certainly cheaper to drink in Baltimore, but part of the point of getting a part-time job in DC is to help compensate for that difference.

Speaking of …

… last night was orientation at the bookseller I’ll be working at. Four hours. Holy shit. I don’t think I’ve ever had an orientation that lasted that long. I’m going in tomorrow for some actual training. It seems like a pretty cool place to work, with a very cosmopolitan staff: and it’s only a block from the Metro, so that’s a total plus.

Apparently, bibles are the highest theft items from book stores. I seem to recall having been told that previously, but it’s still a weird little fact.

Here are the highlights of yesterday:

*Alarm on at 5am. Snooze. Up at 5:10.
*Out the door at 6am
*495 backed up onto 95, so I detoured into College Park, got lost, and took about an hour getting to work. Total commute time: 2 hours plus.
* Because I stayed late earlier in the week (and, well, today), I left at 3:45 for the Metro.
* Got to orientation a little early.
* Orientation ended and I left at 8:40 or so.
* Waited ten minutes for a Metro train.
* After stopping at a grocery store for a bottle of water and granola bars — my only food all day — I was on 495 by about 9:20.
* Got home a little after 10.
* Asleep by 10:30.

There’s actually a bit in the employee handbook of the part time job about blogging. Not that it can’t be done, but just that blah blah blah, which is about all my brain is capable of coherently understanding at the moment. Or yesterday.