Day 158 - Tuesday, June 7th, 2011

And thus today saw the dawn of a new chapter in my employment career with the commencement of my 5th full-time job at Maples Fund Services as its catchily-titled Vice President of Registrar and Transfer Agency. As with my previous job, I most certainly will not be revealing details of the working day itself, but everything that falls around it will be fair game, such as the commute to work, where I will be trying a number of combinations before settling on a favoured one. Today, I walked to Spencer Dock LUAS station (10 minutes), got the tram to Abbey Street (8 minutes) and walked up O’Connell Street, Westmoreland Street and Grafton Street (12 minutes) to the office which is just behind the St. Stephen’s Green shopping centre. A relatively pleasant trek indeed.


The office building (Beaux Lane House) is a fine modern building and the office on the 2nd Floor is largely open plan, with a plush board-room, some offices, meeting rooms and a large kitchen – all of which easily house the 30 Maples FS employees. Introductions to all the staff indicate that they are a very pleasant and friendly bunch indeed – huzzah!

I used lunch-hour to get some passport-sized face and side-profile photos taken, as these are required as part of the Work Permit application process for the Cayman Islands, where I am due to go on July 10th for 5-6 weeks. A foray to Dunne Stores for a host of victual, foodstuff and condiment bargains also proved to be highly successful.

After work, the route home was negotiated via a 20 minute Route 128 bus journey to Fairview and 5 minute walks either side of it. Al The Almera was then jumped into and a beeline was made to Clontarf Garda Station to apply a Police Clearance Certificate, again for the Cayman authorities, but a slight fly in the ointment reared its mellifluous head when a Lady-Guard revealed that Clontarf is not regarded as my “home” Garda station, despite it being the closest. So off I sped to Store Street, location of said beloved home constabulary.

Back to the Lighthouse to conjure up an unimaginably sensational feast of Wok Chicken Vegetables and Rice whose ingredients included chicken breast pieces, bean sprouts, cabbage, onion, carrot, green red and yellow peppers, tomatoes, and lashings and lashings of hot sauce. Utterly delicious, and luckily, there’ll be enough for the next 274 days too.

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Contentment :     16 / 25
Excitement :        5 / 10
Memorability :    4 / 15

Overall Score :    50% (21st out of 158)