Today was much better than yesterday. Way better. Only worked on two laptops though. I swear there is a gnome of New And Irritating Ways To Put Laptops Together, and it’s out to get me.
Dan’s being really nice – he came and reminded me of tea breaks/ lunch which is a very good thing cuz if he hadn’t I would have worked right through them. Lunch today Dan showed me the ‘cafeteria’, and I hung with some of his buddies. They are cool, if… interesting. He also gave me a pep talk about how: I need to speak up if I can’t do something or I need something; They should be giving me more training than they are; The management is a bunch of assholes; if someone is bitchy about/ to me I need to bitch back and remind them that I am only a trainee and I only have the vaguest clue what I’m doing. But it’s okay, cuz no one speaks to me anyway, and the guy next to me [I think his name is Philip, I keep forgetting to ask...] is really nice and helpful when I do decide I need it.
I was also drugged up on Sinutab, and eating Strepsils like they were sweets, so that might have helped somewhat with the whole feeling better thing. I am very stiff though from standing most of the day then relaxing at home, and I could do with a shoulder rub. Damn, where’s Lex when ya need him? 
It’s funny, it doesn’t feel like work, it feels like… I’m not sure, school maybe; pissing around in Electronics with Kat and Ry and Mr Janes. I wouldn’t say it’s fun exactly, but it’s engrossing and challenging [see comment about the gnome of NAIWTPLT]. Heh, something else amusing: on one of Dan’s periodic ‘visits’ he walked up to me and just stood watching for a while then said, ‘I should take a picture of you and send it to Andy.’ and I was like ‘Why…?’ and he said, ‘You look good in the lab coat and he’d be so proud.’ It made me smile slightly, cuz I already know he’s proud of me; he’s proud I got the damn job in the first place, he’s proud I didn’t quit and I think he’s proud he has an even more geeky fiancé. But I also think it was Dan’s way of saying he was proud of me too 
Yeh, so that was my day *happy smilies all round, collapses into bed*
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