new job!

I started at Evy on Wednesday. My first day there was better than my first day at MF by a clear mile. First of all, Lydia (my boss) greeted me with the biggest smile. She seemed genuinely happy and excited by my being there!

We got my desk all set up (well sort of) and I was introduced to everybody again. I don't remember everyone's names, of course, but as I plan on being at Evy for awhile, I'm sure I'll learn them all. There's another Katie there from London, and that sort of makes things awkward. Lol they're starting to call her Other Katie. It's only a minor irritation though. I can forgive LOTS of things for the salary they're paying me.

So basically the artists at Evy do everything in Illustrator and stick to their style guides pretty exclusively. I am not used to doing that. I'm so much more of a hands-on person so I hope that if I am forced to back off of that, that I don't forget how to create things by hand! I am hoping that I can get more of the artists to create things by hand or at least get away from the style guides a bit more.

I do not have my own personal scanner, so I have to use the one by the printers. I guess that'll be ok. Another thing I'll be getting used to is not having iChat or iTunes. I'm getting by listening to Pandora and DNR right now. The bathrooms smell weird like pee and if it were my company I'd make somebody get in there with a bucket of bleach and really clean that place over the weekend. Again, all things I can forgive for the salary.

I'm working harder now that there's no iChat. So I'm pretty much done with computers and stuff by the time I get home.

My first day, like I said, was great. They gave me a couple things to do and they LOVED them. Then today I spent mostly trying to get a handle on their non-lic "faith" themed tees and I think I did a good job and have more direction now for tomorrow.

The girls are very nice and friendly and talky, which I like. I do not forsee any problems with any of them, unlike w/ Alice or Unfriendly Girl.

Ok time to get ready to go to karaoke! I gotta keep it cool tonight so I'm not all hungover for tomorrow. :) Yay new job!

xoxox
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