back to the daily grind

I'm home, and back to work today. It's snowing lightly and has been all day, so I'm freezing.
I got to see our new building today, and work in the new office. I'm proud of myself for finding the advising center right away, but had to wait for Dr. Frenzel to show up to unlock the door. So while I was standing there with students, I was able to help 2 of them. Now we're in the basement and while I was waiting, I looked around at the hallways that go every which way and the yellow walls and thought, oh this sucks. But our office door opens to a waiting area, and then there is the advising center, with windows at ground level (but you have to stand up to see out of them) and next door is Dr. Frenzel's office. About a half hour later Kendra showed up to help unpack Dr. F's office (butt kisser). She kept asking me if I was okay too, I suppose because I'm serious on the job and don't smile a lot. I can't help it, and I really can't help it when I'm working. Anyway...we don't have a copy machine now, so I had to send student's away and tell them to come back for copies of some of their paperwork. We have to go to our old building, which is sitting empty, to make copies. We also have to make all these folders for signatures, pick up, and now copying. I ended up helping 30 students in my 3 hour shift, so I guess that is pretty good. Kendra seemed impressed. It just seemed to flow and nobody had major problems. I have 4 students on academic probation I have to meet with though. I also found out we won't be getting keys to the building, we MIGHT get keys to the advising center in a week, we aren't allowed in the lounge, and there is a possibility that we don't get a key to the mailroom...which I have no idea if it is a room, or where it is, and my paper and final should be in it. I'm dying to see how I did to go over it with Dr. Lee and Dr. Hanrahan. We also apparently have somewhat of a budget in the department, so we are getting new computers with flat screen monitors, a flat screen tv in the outside waiting area (for information only, not cable), new waiting area chairs and new stepstools for the office. I asked Dr. F if it would happen in our lifetime and she laughed. Usually all the good stuff gets done after I'm done with a place. And lastly, Dr. F is trying to get me to take all 3 of her cats. She pulled the "but they are familyyyyyyyy" card with me. She described them more and it will be hard to choose. I can't take all three though. My allergies will be bad enough with one, but three will kill me. So now I'm just relaxing, tomorrow morning I work and I'm off in the afternoon, then classes start on Wednesday and I'll have homework to do all weekend I'm sure.