No paradiso napkin yet...

Okay, so I haven't found a new paradiso napkin yet, no architectural renderings.

The job is pretty cool. I like it so far. I think it's funny that there's a kitchen on every floor of the building (we have the smallest kitchen, but it's right across from my office...)

I share an office with Darlene. She likes listening to classical music on low, so that's pretty cool.

On the first day, I went into the office, and Darlene was there and she was all like "Don't worry - this isn't really your desk, and this isn't really your computer." So, they had ordered me a new desk and computer but they hadn't arrived yet so they put up temporary ones. I didn't tell her that the desk was nicer than the one I'd had at my last job...

Anyways, so Darlene was busy on the first day, so she gave me a stack of magazines to read, magazines like the one we publish. So, that was it for the first day...

On the second day, she gave me more magazines.
On the third day, the desk showed up, and she gave me magazines that we publish.
On the fourth day, the computer showed up (without the software I needed...)
On the fifth day the software showed up (yay!).

So, that was week one. Not bad - Darlene has been showing me some good places to eat in the area. I've been trying to bring my lunch, to be healthier than I used to be, but alotta the stuff is way too tempting. On my third day of work, they took me out to this restaurant called "Draggo's" which was downtown.

I've never really been a big fan of seafod, but I had the red snapper and it was delicious. Like it didn't really taste like fish - Darlene says that when they pull it right out of the water and cook it, it rarely tastes fishy.

And then we went to this building that looked like a bank on the outside, but when you went in, it looked like a mall. Deceptive space - and we ate sushi at a food court there. And then, we went to the place I've liked the best, the 11th floor of the Pan-Am building. There's a cafeteria there, and they make different kinds of foods. We went on friday and they had a potato bar, with delicious kinds of stuff, I loved it.

The people at work are really nice, so I like that, and they all pretty much love New Orleans and love to share their opinions on what they like to eat.

In fact, it's really weird, but everyone seems to really like food there. There's one gal that's on a diet where she eats 6 times a day. And today we had a pre-meeting meeting to discuss what we were going to be eating at the meeting tomorrow. Uhmmm, seriously.

I'm just going to have to treadmill more often, no worries....