Day 1

There aren't many better ways to spend a day than watching cricket with an Apple Mac. This has largely been my arduous task to undertake on what has ultimately proved to be a a slow news day, meaning that the people actually being paid aren't rushed off their feet enough to give me their least enticing assignments.

Not that this has meant boredom at all. Instead I have spent the day trying to absorb the myriad complexities inherent in putting together a daily Newspaper whilst watching people with far too much time on their hands sway their pasty bodies to reggae music watching the test match in Antigua on one of the many big screens in the office. The premises here make this an even easier task than it sounds (difficult I know) as they are obscenely comfortable and have cheap food, all benefits of the recent December move. After spending time watching stories go live with sub-editors for the website and seeing articles polished in the revision section I am no nearer to knowing how on earth this comes together to form what we read. Thats not completely true I suppose as the people who have given time out of their busy day to explain their work to an excitable ginger child have been much better at explaining than that. All the same the process still retains the same mythical quality that it had when I turned up this morning.

I have massively enjoyed myself. It seems as though the week will ramp up as the week goes on but for now I'm just happy to be finding my feet, eating subsidised sandwiches and trying not to look to overawed when passing Kevin Mcarra on the way to the loo. Just simply observing meetings and the way people go about their work is a bit overwhelming and probably the best way to get used to everything before starting anything to strenuous. Saying that I did complete a task of some magnitude today in putting together the Guardian Quiz on the back page of the sport section something that has boosted my trivia knowledge more than a million pub quiz's ever will. It is strange actually writing something that will appear in the Guardian in any capacity and it will be nice having my own miniscule piece of anonymous involvement in such a brilliant paper.

So overall a strange, exciting and knackering day, despite my sitting in a chair for the vast majority of it. I don't think I 'll be used to sitting opposite the guy who wrote this or being asked to proof read The Fiver, before it being in my inbox 20 minutes later, by the end of the week but it'll be fun whatever happens.

* The picture is of the meeting room where all the editors assemble every morning to discuss the day ahead. I may turn up early tommorow and watch like an abandoned child, pressing my face hungrily to the glass as all raggamuffins do when watching smiling families open Christmas presents in bad films.