I’m in the second week of the new job, and the onboarding process is still slow going. No complaints, though — it’s nice to have a gentle re-entry. So far the work-from-home setup is working well. After work, I escaped the apartment for a stroll to St. Stephens Green. Summer flowers in St. Stephens Green Summer flowers in St. Stephens Green Summer flowers in St. Stephens Green A thick...
This weekend has been mostly about home projects. I ordered a shelving system off Amazon UK for storing towels and other items in the bathroom. It wasn’t able to be shipped directly from the UK to Ireland, for whatever reasons, so I had to use my ReShip forwarding service (the same one I use in the U.S., they also operate out of the UK and Canada). I wouldn’t have gone to the extra trouble and...
I’ve wrapped up the first week of my new job with University College Dublin (UCD). It’s been a lot of onboarding tasks, system access requests, and some initial training on research grant financial reporting. Today I paid a visit to campus so that I could pick up a laptop, external monitor, keyboard and mouse. There were very few people around due to COVID-19 restrictions and the...