Welcome to the Real World [ Week 1 ]

Dear Diary.

So tonight is my first night in Hidden Springs. It's hard to believe that graduation was only two weeks ago (it seems so much longer).  All those years of study, study, study. Makes you feel like that's all you've ever known, right? It's thrilling and it's scary to be out in the 'real world' and just knowing things are going to be different from now on. There's no going back, ever.

I like my house, though it's awfully quiet here on my own. It's a little place I'm renting from a older couple from Sunset Valley way. It used to be their holiday house. Yeah, it's pretty basic but that's all I need. Anyway, towards the end of the year I got offered a job here and this couple have now retired to the coast, so they're letting me rent for an indefinate period.

I'm really quite nervous about meeting my boss again tomorrow and all the other scientists.  Landgrabb Industries run some of the most prestigious and important research laboratories in the country; as a new BSc graduate I was super lucky to get in and I reckon I'll have a lot to prove to the old hands.

I'm also going to have to be real careful with my money if I want the wages to make the distance.  Making ends meet on my own is going to be tricky.  More to worry about.

Well, if I'm going to be in any sort of shape for my first day at work tomorrow I'd better put the worries to one side and try get some sleep.  It's really late.

Goodnight Diary

Dear Diary

My first day wasn't quite as awful as I imagined.  Madeline, my supervisor, seemed to go out of her way to try an make things easy for me.  Although she did warn me any number of times that the 'hand holding' was a one-time-only and she'd be disappointed if I wasn't 'up-to-scratch' in short order.
I was so busy the whole day that I didn't truly get to meet any of my new colleagues.  Vauge impressions based on brief encounters was all I got.  Somehow I managed to get through the day without spilling anything too hazardous and I was able to remember where most of the equipment belonged when Madeline quizzed me toward the end of the shift. 

Well, hopefully things will get better as I settle in.


Goodnight