The Village People lied...

Apparently one cannot sail the seven seas in the Navy. It seems to be damn near impossible for me to get scheduled for a trip this year, and I'm getting antsy. The whole reason I took this job was for the traveling! Luckily for me, some wonderful people are doing everything short of threatening bodily harm to ensure that I get on a trip before the end of the year.

While I'm on the subject of government work: who would've thought there'd be so much inter-office politics involved?? (insert sarcastic laugh here) Just as it was in high school, it doesn't matter what you know so much as who you know. And seeing how I've been here for a whopping 3 months, I don't know squat (people or info). I sit in my little cubicle (a.k.a. the death cage) minding my own business all day, occasionally escaping to get a doughnut. I'm sure my coworkers think I hate it here because I'm so quiet, but it's just that I'm shy at first. All it takes is someone throwing me a topic (music, beer, shopping, legalizing things are recent ones) and I'll be set for a least half an hour.

However, I've managed to move up the ladder since I've started because I finally know someone (my age!) who isn't socially inept (shoutout to Katy...what up?!), so I don't have to eat alone at my desk anymore and I'm no longer the workplace equivalent of a leper, and this sentence needs to end.

In summation:

PROS
very interesting job duties
doughnuts/cookies at least twice a week
fun workplace chitchat
federal health insurance (woot!)
no dress code
I get paid more than a grad school monkey
new friends (if I don't piss them/their significant others off)

CONS
Where's my trip?!
confined to windowless death cage (could be alleviated with a trip!)
get to work before sunrise
I have to act like an adult sometimes
far away from lunchtime restaurants, and I hate making sandwiches!
slothlikeness (it's a word) due to too many doughnuts/cookies

Overall, the pros outweigh the cons by far. But seriously, where's my trip?!