report from the first week at the new job:

day one: started with a meeting. we're three new editors who started the same day, one new editor/something else who started in december and one new something else. introduced ourselves. had some papers. were shown around. learned how to turn on and off the alarm, which buttons to press if we want to wash something, how to get a car down from the ramp after ten pm, where to find extremely small screws, who to call if we are sick, that we can have as much coffee as we want, what button to press if we want to smoke in the garage, where to sign if we want to borrow the bandvagn, and lots of other things. had lunch. waited for our computers to be unpacked. installed a few programmes. tried to open and close the drawers in my office. it's only possible to open one drawer at the time. felt bad.

day two: had a paper with instructions how to replace a water pump on a bv 206 ("take out the water pump. install the new one"). were left alone in the garage with the bv, lots of tools and a camera, and told to make better instructions. quite fun. i might become a good editor after all. went to get working clothes: shoes that you can wear if you walk in acid (i refuse to try if they work), trousers, jacket, gloves, safety goggles etc. etc. it felt a bit like another christmas, and i started to like the new job.

day three: went to östersund, to meet our colleagues in that office. had a stomach ache. nearly fainted. had a head ache. met the person who is going to teach us FrameMaker and Epic. she mostly talked about her dogs and cats, which was nice as i wasn't feeling very well. she had the longest hair on her arms i've ever seen. had instructions to a digger to proofread until next week. we're not many women employed at the company. in sollefteå there's me and another girl who started the same day (and 23 men). in östersund there's the one with long haired arms, and two more i think. when we were having coffee for the third time i realised none of us is very womanish. so this weekend i'm going to paint my fingernails red again. and i will try to make my office as pink as possible. otherwise i'm afraid i might lose the little femininity i have... the one with the long haired arms in östersund was almost like a man. and she had worked there tree years.

day four: got a phone. wrote down the instructions about the water pump. tried FrameMaker. gave up. went to buy plants to the office (i chose a pink pot for mine). played with the phone. played with a camera. tried FrameMaker some more. started proofreading.

day five: meeting with most of the colleagues. introduced ourselves (i'm allergic to introductions since the last time i started a new job, and we had to do it twice a day for two months). learned how to report how much we have worked. proofread. watered my plant.  ¶ 3:53 PM