Ten Thoughts on the New Job

10. My office building, Laird Hall, is pretty.
9. It's possible that the janitors are playing some kind of weird joke by making the men's room smell like coconuts. (On the plus side, the men's room is in the basement, the only acceptable location for men's rooms in old academic buildings.)
8. Carleton takes its frisbee very seriously: as I was leaving for the day, two guys were casually but sharply tossing a disc back and forth on the quad. One was wearing wide receiver's gloves.
7. It's easy to follow the blue signs reading "Keys" to find the woman who hands out the keys.
6. The prospect of a college-supplied Palm Pilot and an expense-account credit card is so freaking adult I practically want to regress to a pacifier, just to compensate.
5. College food is a lot better now than it was when I was in school.
4. The skyways haven't been finished yet - they are all at sidewalk level and none have roofs or walls, much less Caribous, ATMs, Girl Scouts, or homeless people.
3. You know you're in the right place when someone uses the word, "de-silo-ize," but doses it with more irony than McSweeney's.
2. Two-hour meetings don't seem so long when people are talking about interesting things.
1. I think this job's going to be F.I.N.E.