Vicky, Age 24, Grown-Up...?

I'm sitting here in my pjs, eating cold pizza and listening to Tyler type on his laptop next to me. It's been a really long day, but we are celebrating my first day of work and his acceptance of a job offer with Giordano's and watching sports on TV. So yay for both of us being employed!

My first day of work at ACCO Brands was fairly pleasant. I did the HR stuf in the morning (forgot to bring proof of citizenship though, so that was a bit of a fail), and then was shown to my cubicle and got to work reading 3 years' worth of newsletters and trying to learn as much as I can about the company. To recap, I'm now working as a Communications Specialist for an office supply company in Lincolnshire. Everyone seems pretty nice and laid-back, and from what I gathered the corporate culture here is "In at 8:30am, out by 5pm," which was SO good to hear after the "In at 8:30am, out at 1am the next day" of the last few weeks of Medill.

The only really crappy part is that my commute is 2 hours both ways, and if I miss the bus in the afternoon, I miss my connection at Golf Mill Mall, which means I'm stuck in Niles, or wherever Golf Mill Mall is (godforsaken middle of nowhere with almost zero interesting stores), until like, 8:30pm. Which I reallllllly don't want to do. I made some friends today at the bus stop--a very nice girl named Gina and a guy who apparently works closely with the transportation department and could answer all my CTA bus pass questions thoroughly, a feat that none of the actual CTA workers I spoke with were able to do.

I'm kind of worried that the commute is going to burn me out (it really exhausted me today, and it's only day one!), but from what I hear, driving to work is a zoo and that's why so many employees take the bus. So not really a win-win situation, but that's all right.

On to early-bed for me--I'm a morning person, but getting up at 5:30am is still pretty rough. But beggars can't be choosers, so here goes my first official job!