Morrissey once sang, “First day on the job you find… everyone lied.” Actually, it was “First day with the joy” oh no wait, it was “First day with the jar”. Oh who knows what he sang? My point was going to be that it sounds like he’s saying "everyone lied", and this melody (“Glamour Glue”) pops into my head the day before the first day of anything (school, jobs), and last night was one such day.

Today was my first day of work at the Legal Services Center in Jamaica Plain. I wouldn’t say anyone lied (so maybe Morrissey never said that after all). It definitely seems like it’ll be a great place to work this summer. There are tales of interesting cases and great experience, and I have no reason to doubt that they’re true. Nevertheless, I must ponder the strangeness of first days of work (or school really). You turn up there bright and early and have no idea what you’re supposed to do. You might not even know how to get into the building (i.e. today… and come to think of it my first day at moreover was also like that). People seem nice, but you’re so concerned with not screwing anything up that you fail to notice. The day rushes past and you return to your safe haven, only to start the whole process over again bright and early the next day. Its not an especially bad experience, but certainly a bit awkward.

And with each day things become vastly more familiar…

In other news, my pictures are finally live on airlinemeals.net. You have to look under Alaska Airlines and then scroll all the way down. Some punk decided to submit five pictures of his first class food fiesta, thus bumping my pictures down and making me wish I had had that bump up to first class. Oh well.