Today was a busy day - at least according to my schedule of meeting, training, sim, meeting (in that order). I don't really feel like it was that busy a day though.

Last night I made a pointless trip to Rice. I left work at 4 p.m. At 5:05 p.m. it was clear that only two of us (and three professors) had shown up to class and that they needed to sort out the course listings. At 5:15 p.m. they dismissed class (and promised to find the other 10 students that were registered for it by Thursday). At 6:30 p.m. I was at home. What a waste of a lot of gas and driving time.

People are buzzing here about an opportunity to rotate to HQ. Or at least I'm buzzing about it. I think it would be cool to spend 6 months working in D.C., even if the job involved a lot of paperwork, etc. Unfortunately (well, fortunately, because I really like the idea of my new job), I'm pretty much locked in place for now, so here's to hoping something like this will exist in a few years hence. I've always had it kind of in the back of my head that "someday" I would find a rotation to D.C. and start work on a master's degree in public policy, and then apply for the fellowship, and stick around to finish it off.

On the subject of fDOing, I am officially transitioned. I even have a training guide with a blue binder that has obviously been used by more than one person and left in a car in the Houston sun to bake for a while - but it was nonetheless apparently important that I had this precise binder (I guess for tradition's sake... or to make it easy to spot when I seriously screw something up...) Now, the next priority is to "Get Becca a Desk." The current date is sometime in the first week of February. I've pretty much decided I'm going to go camp out in the hallway where my desk will eventually be, at least to be seen around the new office.