Two days at work have come and gone.

What I really like about my job is how un-stressing it is: Would you agree that economic research is not stressing at all? So far, so good. Years ago, after a week I started my internship in the central bank I was another person just because of the stress: I was working long hours, from early in the morning into late at night. I was tense and moody and well, I was taking it on my pacient and dear boyfriend as usual. Until he put my feet on the ground and made me realize that I had felt completely fulfilled when I got that internship, it had been a dream come true to work at the central bank and now I was blowing it off with my stress. I won't say that reprimand was the end of my tension, but it did help me realize that I could make that experience as good or as bad as I wanted it to be. I'll try to apply this knowledge again.

I've been reading a lot because well, there is no computer for me yet. So my office hours go by doing one of the things I like the most: reaaaaadinnnng. Sometimes I feel I can simply lose myself doing this. When I have a computer things will change for worse, because I will have to struggle with a huge database of thousands of colombian firms across time. But I try not to think about that when I'm reading.

I am enjoying all I have learned about the effect of financial systems on the amount and the size of firms across countries. I'll try to apply all of what I've read to the Colombian situation, it's a bit blurry how and what is exactly what I'm going to do, but it's been interesting so far and the perspective of being able to present it at a conference next april is quite exciting. Any information you know about is more than welcome.

The other project I'm kind of working on is a book. It seems I'll be in charge of a book the organisation wants to publish next year. I'm not quite sure of what my specific job about the book is, but it might be a mix of editing work and research about a social topic. So that's good too. More on that when I'll actually know about it.

So far, I must say I feel happy about what I'm doing, how I'm doing it and the topics involved. People have been quite nice to me. It's a bit frustrating entering my cubicle and seeing empty: no computer, no telephone, no litter basket. Just papers, a notebook and a notebook for my notes. No contract signed yet either due to the administrative "efficiency". But what can I do? Nothing's perfect. And at least I will be able to teach next year.

I feel excited about this... wasn't passion what I was looking for? It seems that it's slowly resurfacing again.

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