Man, I feel like I was rode hard and put away wet. I worked seven hours today, which isn’t that bad, but I was on my toes all day and I walked home, which perhaps wasn’t the best idea. It was my first day, so I did my best to make a good impression and did whatever I was told right away instead of chillin’ and stretching the work out over the entire day. Some of it was easy (like sorting mail and calling the postage machine repairman), but I did my fair share of schlepping tables, chairs, crates of soda, and running back and forth between offices. The thing that makes this job hard is that the different offices and meeting rooms are spread out over three buildings and five floors. So you’re running around all over the place, and because there is a lot of hi-tech stuff in the buildings you have to use a key card everywhere. Normally, I wouldn’t care about that, but when you have to serve lunch for a meeting and you have to carry coffee, food, sodas, utensils, and what not from a second floor cafeteria in one building to a second floor meeting room in another building having to get your key card out all the time is a pain in the ass. So genius that I am I stick a couple of crates in to block one of the doors, while running to get the rest of the stuff. Within 30 seconds my little stunt sets of the alarm and has people running to the door from different offices. So that didn’t work, which meant I was back to square one.

But other than that it’s a pretty great job. People are nice and for a large part of the day you just walk around by yourself making sure everything is five by five. And if something comes up they page you and have to come round the office for some emergency Xeroxing or something like that. They're planning the summer work schedule this week and I told them that I’m doing Jack this summer, so I’d be willing to work whenever, which might actually lead to some extra work. Because who else would volunteer to work during exams, the World Cup, festival season, and all those days of nice weather, where normal people go to the beach?

I’m pretty tired, but since there’s nothing on telly I think I’ll crank some tunes and get started on the packing. The plan is to pack all my stuff this week. A friend of mine comes over Friday, so I’ll take him out for a drink Friday night and then Saturday morning I’m inviting people over for breakfast to watch the Denmark – Uruguay game and whoever shows up get to help me move. I’m pretty good at packing, so it shouldn’t take that long and if we win the game people probably won’t mind spending a day dragging my gear across town.