As the last remnants of my acclimatization bug fades away, I’m getting into quite a routine here at work: Have a quick breakfast at home (if I get up early enough). Leave the house by 8.45am. Start work at 9am. Lunch around 12pmish. Dinner around 6pmish. Leave the office at 7pm. Have my late night cup of tea at home and then it’s off to bed.
I’ve got my own desk and a nice powerful workstation. They’ve also given me some animation tasks to do which should span a couple of weeks or thereabouts, and even though it’s not quite working on actual shots, it’s a good way of getting familiar with the project file structure, rig and animation workflow in XSI. Unfortunately, I’m not at liberty to reveal anything specific about what I’m doing at work. I don’t want to get in trouble here. I did notice that a few of the production crew guys are slowly warming up to me and I’m actually starting to make friends. They’re all a nice bunch of guys really, and very friendly, but I tend to avoid chatting with them or hanging around their desks as I don’t want to bug them while they’re busy working (which seems to be practically all the time).
I also haven’t been taking that many pictures sadly - in fact I haven’t taken any since that 1st day I arrived. I have to remedy that somehow. Fact is there’s just not much for me to do besides work.
I have had a few people sharing my house here recently though, which I really appreciate. Nothing is worse than staying in a large house all by yourself (OK I know there is but I’m not going to mention it!). Anyway, Raymond who’s been staying with me for the past couple of weeks left Batam last Friday, and I had to spend Monday on my own before my SP colleague arrived with his students the very next day. They’re here as part of a student project and so I get to share my home with a fellow lecturer for a few days. In a day or so another colleague will replace him (on yet another student project expedition) so I’ll have company til the end of the week. Then I guess it’s back to lonely days once more. At least, as anticipated, work is starting to take my mind off the loneliness.
Catch you in a few days!

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