slipjig3 | Oh, right. This is that "working" thing I've not been doing.

So! First day of the new temp job happened! And it didn't suck! Score!

I didn't get the final when-and-where details until 5:30 last night, which didn't exactly inspire gouts of confidence in me. But as it turned out, the assignment is actually quite straightforward: the company is an insurance outfit doing a survey on long-term health care costs, and my part is gathering rate information for various providers. Yes, it's about as thrilling as it sounds. (Imagine calling a restaurant to see if they have any tables open for tomorrow night. Now imagine doing that repeatedly for eight hours a day.)

But hey, it's a paycheck, and the survey consists of all of two scripted questions, and it's in the next town over, and I can still go to all four days of Arisia, and I don't have to strap on a frickin' tie. And lest we forget that the Verizon gig was also a white-collar trained monkey position, although that one had the distinct advantage of regular contact with bat-snot lunatics.

So, eight weeks of this. I can do eight weeks. I predict a loss of sanity in three. It's all good.