New job

New job is okay and I like many things about it. Many things are the same, same kinda company albeit smaller and more personal, same types of people albeit different, same area albeit with a nicer view since I have a window, same free t-shirts, same breakroom-type stuff.

Enough things are different to make it fun: new people, new desk, new fast computer, new stuff to learn, new things to remember, new promises to self, new social dynamic, new work aim name, new email lists to belong to with new discussions, new hours…long hours.

I was talking with a guy I work with who I am friends with and worked with before and he said people have come up to him and asked if I was mad. Apparently, when I’m intent or concentrating I look angry. I thought this kinda funny, and I hope no one is wary of me as a result.

I sit right next to another English major from UT named Chris, although he is considerably older than me. He has taken to referring to himself as “Chris Classic”. I guess that makes me “New Chris”.

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6 comments

  1. Sara
    3/11/2004 at 5:04 pm

    At least you’re not “Crystal Chris.” But “Vanilla Chris…”

  2. Silv
    3/11/2004 at 7:21 pm

    Aww… no more hearing your damn stories in person. Now I have to be a spectator and read your page. Sad :/
    I’m glad you’re liking the new place though :)

  3. chris
    3/11/2004 at 8:01 pm

    Yea :(

    No more spying on me while invisible either. :(

    No more PigPen! :(

  4. susan
    3/12/2004 at 10:28 am

    I think you should be Diet Chris with Lime.

  5. chris
    3/12/2004 at 5:56 pm

    I’m not looking like diet chris

  6. r@d@r
    3/15/2004 at 5:34 pm

    LOL – people at work used to always think that i was angry too. not only that – any time i DID get angry, for some reason it frightened people. which was really aggravating, because i never yelled or anything – and i wanted to be heard by them, and be able to talk things out and negotiate, but instead no matter how hard i tried to control my tone of voice they would start backing up and their voices would shake and they would say things like “i-i-i r-r-really n-n-need you to c-c-c-calm d-d-d-down right now…okay?” as if i were about to hit them or something, which is about as nuts as can be. i was never able to find out exactly why me getting mad was so scary. it really caused me a lot of problems. now, however, people have the opposite prejudice, they think of me as “nice guy/doormat” which isn’t true either. you can’t win!