I have started a new job.

I have things that I've never had before at a job - a swipe card. A work email address. A staff room. Team meetings. An induction process. A manager somewhere in Australia who I'm never going to meet. There are things called company goals, core values, saleability. I hope I'm not supposed to actually care about any of this. They're still not paying me enough for that.
Shit, there's even a work soccer team. And a dress code. And a fridge with people's names on bottles of milk. And I don't even have to wash any dishes, or sweep the floor at the end of the night.
I'm cherishing the new-ness of all these things like I used to with new, blank schoolbooks at the start of the term. And I know it won't be long before I'll be remembering how it was all once so novel.
I've been slowly adjusting to the idea that I might never have to go back to hospo, like an abused kitten getting used to a new loving owner. Touch wood.