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It's been a week, and I could make up some excuses, but we both know it's just that - an excuse. It's not like anyone else is posting, you slackers.

In the past week, I've been assigned a cubicle, received a computer, was able to log on, and started going over the organization overview course. I'm not actually doing the 4-day-long seminar - I'm using the PowerPoint slides from the seminar about 18 months ago. My boss, for lack of a better title, is going to "discuss" it with me when I finish. It took my about a day to finish the slides, but I filled in another half day the Office Space way. I'll need to review the slides again before the discussion, but at least I've been through everything once.

The main reason I'll need to review isn't a poor review the first time, it's that I was in training today and will be in training again tomorrow. Today was Myers-Briggs Type Indicator training. If you don't know about it, essentially these two women needed something to keep themselves busy while the men of the world were out fighting World War II, so they came up with 4 "either/or" categories to lump people into. These 16 categories become a way to pre-judge people.

There were 8 of us in training today, and the one guy who felt his opinion mattered to ANYONE. His excuse was "well, I'm an extrovert," which I'd give him a pass on at a Myers-Briggs seminar, except there were 3 other extroverts who didn't need to hear themselves talk. And this guy was just annoying. He brought himself in snacks to last the morning (fruit loops, among other things). We all took 90 minutes for lunch (and still ended the day before 4), except this guy, who took 2 hours and brought his lunch back with him. One of the activities involved the introverts (that's me) leaving the room while they extroverts did the first half of something. We discussed that we really, really wanted to hurt this guy. It was unanimous.

Back to lunch: everyone but the annoying guy went to the Green Hills Grille, which lists on its menu "The Best Burger in Huntsville." I ordered that, and it was good, but it had nothing on Huey's. A Huey's hamburger with a side of fries is a full meal. This TBBH was plenty of lunch, but I wasn't overly full by any means. And there wasn't anything spectacular about the burger, where Huey's just has something . . . better about it.

After some more "training," I got to go home early. That makes for a much more enjoyable day of training, in my opinion. Not quite as good as my suggestion, though. The first order of business for the day, at 8:30 or so, was for the facilitator to ask us "what we wanted to do" so I told her I wanted to call it a day. If it had gone to a vote, it would have passed. See, my comments are insightful and funny, where annoying guy's were annoying, ill-timed, and self-involved.

I could get used to this training stuff. More tomorrow.