So I'm in a big HR conference

I'm terrible with estimating crowds, but I'd say there are a good 300 employees in here. It's a huge room and EVERY person in here has their laptops up and are just typing away. I'm still getting used to being able to multitask in the open - I no longer have to hide it!

So as I multitask, I figure this is a perfect time to talk about the campus - needless to say I'm still drinking the kool-aid and the honeymoon has yet end. Campus is huge - it is so much like a college campus - have I told you about that yet? If so, jump down a paragraph; if not, listen up. (I can never distinguish when to use commas vs. dashes these days -,- email has completely ruined my punctuation and I rely entirely too much on dashes and ellipses these days but oh well.... Ms. Houghton isn't reading this, and even if she were, she can no longer make me stand up in my chair and repeat the grammar rules that I messed up to the whole class over and so hahah ms. houghton - I might even start setting off my one word appositives with commas or underline, italicize, AND bold my titles. Take that! I swear I have PTSD from her class...) Whew, so I digress...so campus is just like a college, in fact it reminds me of Georgia Tech - lots of grass but still a fair amount of streets, tons of brick buildings, intramural fields everywhere, people walking and biking around with backpacks, it's crazy. Add to that the guy to girl ratio of about 2 or 3 to 1 and the high percentage of asians - well it's exactly like Tech! The only difference I've found so far is that I've gotten lost on campus here several times but I don't think I ever got lost at Tech. Oh, and as much as I hate to say it, this campus is much more technologically advanced - well at least compared to Ma Tech back in my day.....

So each building has a kitchen on each floor with all of the free drinks, a large first-aid kit attached to the wall (which I first thought was for huge freak emergencies only, but it turns out it is a goodie box full of free medicine - oh the free advil and band-aids!), free girlie products in each bathroom, 2 locker rooms per building equipped with showers in case you bike to work and need to freshen up once you get to the office (or if your spouse kicks you out of the house and you need to live at work for awhile I suppose), and lots of break rooms with foosball tables and ping pong tables. Legend also has it that each desk on campus has a liquor license in order for anyone to have drinks in the building. In fact, last Friday I walked past the cafe around 3 and there were huge buckets filled with ice and beer...oh to be on that team....but then again supposedly that's not rare.

Even cooler is that our badge gets us anywhere on campus - ok I'm sure there are some places that we're not allowed - but for the most part you can venture anywhere. Coming from a stupid bank that won't even let you into floors in your same bldg that are other departments - this is way cool. So I've been doing a little wondering around campus for lunch - you can call a shuttle from any building to any other one whenever you'd like, so Joe took me to a part of the campus he used to work at last week. It was amazing! Each group has their own flavor and personality -this was an online group so it was really creative and so beautiful. 5 or 6 brick buildings with gorgeous landscape including a small waterfall and lots of picnic tables and green space. But the coolest building is the cafeteria - it looks like a huge ski lodge and inside is every kind of food you can imagine - all fresh and made to order and GREATLY subsidized. It is so cool! The only bad side is now my cafe feels lacking, but hey that's all the more reason to go venture out to all of the others on campus in the future!

Dang, I'm sorry folks, I promise to stop writing novels for each blog!!

Love you and miss you all, come visit and I'll show you around campus! :)
e.

ps-if you want to take it another step forward and REALLY join me - I'd be more than happy to sub resumes, they have a great referral program! ;)