I left the house at 6:15 this morning to arrive at work at 7:00. It's the first time I've driven out here without car pooling. Traffic was very light, but I saw three CHP officers who had pulled over speeding vehicles.

Most of the people who work around me doing data entry and filing are young women with small children. Some of them had already been shopping for Christmas presents at Kmart before they arrived at work at 7:30 or 8:00 this morning.

It's going to be a long, slow day. I have a big research project to start now that budgets are done. I also need to finish unpacking boxes from the move; we just got two more filing cabinets.