First Day of Work like First Day of School

Do you remember those first days of school? You had to have the perfect outfit, the perfect hair, the right backpack, and on and on..... Yeah, that's what my day felt like today. Tracey, my HR person, called last week to tell me I needed to wear gray or black to go with the background for my press release photo. Uh, excuse me? So of course it was the first day of school all mixed in with Picture Day. What a disaster waiting to happen! At least the picture sitting was one of the first things; I didn't have to make it through gym class and recess and still expect to look presentable.

Today was great. I went to work at 10AM and came home at 3:30PM. What more could you want on a first day? Oh, yeah....an hour lunch at Lexington, this fantastic restaurant close to the office. I went there on my interview and was very excited about the salad; well today was even better. French Onion soup and blackened halibut!!!! It wonderful. No, seriously though, today was mainly a meet and great of everyone on the 7th floor (my floor) and the 6th floor (customer service and logistics). My boss, Mike, gave me a flash drive of literally hundreds of pages I need to read and some great data sources for my role. Unfortunately, the laptop wasn't ready, which explains the coming home at 3:30. Except, I didn't really come home.

I decided to explore Memorial Park to figure out if I could run there or should drive there to run. I drove around a bit to find a huge expance of running and biking trails along with a major thoroughfare running through the middle. It took me 1.25 miles before I was adventurous enough to cross the street. Yes, I told you this was the first day of school; more like the first day of kindergarden. Unfortunately, I didn't start my Garmin back up after I crossed the street until I went at least another 0.5 miles, so this just put me closer to the 4 mile mark than 3. Memorial Park is a wonderful place. There were so many people out and about, even in the mist/rain this afternoon that I never once felt out of place. There are so many options to run that my plan is to just go there rather than dodge the traffic on the streets around the apartment after work. It's a quick drive back and forth, and the "air conditioned" seats are definately an added bonus driving home! Pictures will be coming of all of the sites around Memorial.