My First Day

I really like the flexibility of working in an office this small. I got here at about 11 o'clock this morning and did a quick meet and greet before immediately getting to work. Patricia or Patty, my official ISP advisor and marketing director of the firm, pulled out a giant laptop and led me to my new work space. The building is a small yet open rectangle and I sit on the lofted second floor at a round table that acts as a conference room of sorts. My first official task was to resize professional images {hold your applause}. It sounds a little bit boring but it was actually kind of fun because I started to familiarize myself with the general design philosophy that Rob and Carri stick too. The four projects that I managed to resize before the office meeting were definitely different but all adhered to the same basic principles. It was fun to sort of analyze the images from an art historical perspective. One of the remodels that Rob (or maybe Carri) worked on was heavily influenced by Frank Lloyd Wright, complete with cantilevers and car ports. The other three I looked at ranged from post-modern to the truly green architecture.
After I spent about two hours resizing images everyone came upstairs to my little work area for the weekly office meeting where Rob, the principal architect, outlined the projects and basic goals for the week. The meeting probably lasted for an hour and a half and was chock full of tangential threads and general lack of focus that I found sort of refreshing. In general, the office has a really focused, individualized atmosphere so it was nice to come together for a general meeting so that even though everyone is off doing there own thing you know what they are generally trying to accomplish.
On a more random note, everyone here is really soft spoken which makes for a very different environment for me simply because I can't think of anyone I interact with right now who is so... quiet. I definitely don't consider my parents, my friends and teachers at garrison or anyone that I work with at the restaurant soft spoken so it is an interesting change. The office doesn't fall into an awkward silence but I just find it noticeable that the traffic outside is louder than anything going on in here.

Well, that's all for now....