My first day working at what I will be referring to henceforth as The Think Tank (or T3) was pretty good overall, if somewhat paperwork-filled. I spent about 90 minutes out of my first 2 hours sitting in rooms alone waiting for people to come give me more paperwork or take me to my next location. Once I got my security badge (a temporary one, until the information in the 30-page document I filled out about myself today is investigated by the government) I was taken up to meet some people in my group, all of whom (as far as I can tell so far) are ridiculously nice.
(That's not really a swarm of anything deadly in the picture... just editing for the sake of discretion...)I met with my main boss (the one who interviewed me for the job) over lunch in the cafeteria and he seemed really nice... then after lunch I had brief meetings with my other two bosses. The one who is in charge of the main project I’ll be working on was super-cool and made me feel like I could totally kick ass at my new job. He also talked about how life working at T3 is fairly stress-free and about what a great, collaborative environment it is. I won't say anything about what I'll be doing but, from what my bosses told me about the project, it should be pretty fun.
Tomorrow I have a couple meetings at which I’ll hear a bit more about the project... then it's more paperwork to make sure I can get a paycheck at the end of the month... Looking forward to the 3-day weekend, but also sort excited about getting settled in a bit more at work next week... Tonight I broke in the kitchen in my hotel room to make a batch of spicy north-African Chicken with Green Olives (shown above). Despite the grocery-shopping travails that led me to making this instead of the other 3 things I initially wanted to make, it turned out to be exactly what I wanted for dinner and was seriously delicious. 
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