a pleasant surprise

throughout today (and that means BEFORE i was told all busses to the states are canceled), i had that warm, fuzzy feeling... it feels like the people at work are becoming a sort of a family. i knew i enjoyed the work, but i never expected that i'd be able to have fun with the people there too. sure, there're math majors that don't understand variances are additive when you've got normally distributed variables, but that doesn't mean they can't be cool. i feel like i have really adopt the "work hard, play hard" mentally, and i know that people there are happy about (if not very impressed by) the kind of work that i do when i'm not chilling. they want to move me to a cubicle closer to them so we could all bug each other more often =P.

i really didn't think that i'd be able to open up like this -- being a child at work, getting excited about things... whether it be getting the forecast working or playing with a puzzle or kneeling on the tables so i could spy on people in the neighbouring cubicle, or even just that neat magnetic thing that my manager had...

i'm glad they're moving me, though... the guy that's in my neighbouring cubicle, he left today, and isn't going to come back for 3-4 months. he's a really nice guy -- he helped getting me in here (i.e. he interviewed me, with my supervisor), and we spent a good part of last few days just bugging each other. it's funny, when we said goodbye today, i felt sad... not unlike what i felt last month but of course, of lesser magnitude.

but anyways... it's all a pleasant surprise... not only do i enjoy the working hard... i'm also enjoying the playing hard =)

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