First Week in Minne

Sunday, June 20, 2010
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It's been a week exactly since I moved into my lofty condo in Loring Park. From my bedroom I get a sweet view of the interstate and the creepy Sunshine 24 Hour Buffet. Surprisingly the former is quite useful in determining the latest time I can get up, battle through traffic and make it to work still on time. I have one roommate named Delia, pictures to follow. However Marquette Place is full of BSC interns. I met most of them at the daily continental breakfast on the 4th floor. Which sounds more amazing than it truly is. Unless donuts for bfast every morning is your dig you might want to still invest in morning groceries.

I am the newest Rolston family member to join the cube farm. I am a mushroom top. Monday was basically a whole day of orientation where we all forced conversation begrudgingly trying to get to know each other. The next day I sent my first corporate email which was as follows:

Hey Familia,

Two hours left in my first "official" work day at Boston Scientific. Wanted to fill you all in on how awesome I am. I now am a proud owner of a cubicle that is quite large and decorated in the minimalism style that comes furnished with a green squeaky chair. On the upside I got myself a ThinkPad company laptop woot woot, and an office phone line: (651)582-7021. Please call as the robot voice saying my name is the funniest thing I have heard in years. They are still processing my employee information so training doesn’t start until tomorrow. Today I have been working on becoming familiar with my project for the summer. Essentially my department is in charge of managing the project information for the information systems department support system here at BSC. We manage information for the information managers. That kind of makes me chuckle. Well yesterday during my ethics course I learned I can send brief messages that don't pertain to work but long ones could end me up in a holding cell in building 5 so I better sign off. I will call tonight and tell you about my manager and all that fun stuff aka free company lunch at BIG BOWL nom nom!

Love Muchos,
Diane


I have had an epiphany of sorts. All my life I would always ask my mom and dad when they came home from work: So what did you guys do at work today? The same mundane answer: Oh had a few meetings did a little of this, a little of that. And I was sooo confused. Hello you were at this work place 9 hours today and you can't give me a straight answer on anything that you did. So I came to the assumption that they really didn't do anything. So when I would call them at work to talk cause I was bored, I would be so confused when they said they had to go and couldn't talk long.
So my mom called me at work to see what I was up to. First off I felt horrible for interrupting business hours with such a personal call. And then when she asked me what I had been doing at work my answer: Oh had a few meetings did a little of this, a little of that. BAM ! I almost fell out of my chair laughing. I am now in my parents world. Where my hours are consumed by monotonous tasks that aren't even worth noting for remembrance.
Besides that I am loving the cube world. Got some decorations up, including my Taylor Lautner calendar which gets a lot of attention from my female coworkers :]. However the best thing about BSC is my phone. There is an automated robot voice for my voicemail. AHHH definitely not a Garmin voice, more like a scary female terminator death voice. Laugh everytime.

Well off to Lake Calhoun intern grillout. Caio!