New Job Very Good.

Office with small window - a view of nothing much, but natural light, I'll take it. Walls and door. A DOOR! Really nice furniture, real grownup big executive desk, credenza, bookcases, chairs. Did I mention walls and door? Walls need art. Will start bringing in personal crapola tomorrow. Must unearth some old personal crapola that never went to the Cube Farm with me. Really nice brand new Dell PC with big flat screen monitor. Really nice people. Fun Brainwork. Spent the day getting feet back into developer world, and liked it. The best part, looking long range, is that this is not really a "paralegal job," and is what I sensed it was from the interview, an open-ended land acquisition/development role, no defined, restrictive role, making it up as we go along, as stuff that needs to be done surfaces. My new boss is scarily like me, which could be either good or bad - we are both Creative Types and just want to get the work done with a minimum of coloring inside the lines. The third person in Land is much more structured, and God Bless Her, I think this will work. Boss is a totally freewheeling cowgirl, I'm like her at heart but have been indoctrinated into The Need for Structure, and the third person in Land is uber-organized and very structured, so between the three of us, we have a nice mix of styles - if we don't end up wanting to kill each other, of course. I think I may be exactly the right person for this job - I have the legal background and the street smarts and the sense of humor about the business, and I've already nitpicked a set of their HOA docs and recognized names from two of the deals, because it is indeed A Small World After All.