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Just a quick post about my new job. No pictures…because they don’t let you take any. In fact they don’t let you take anything electronic into the office spaces - I even have to leave my cell phone at the door. It’s just my second day so I haven’t gotten any “real” assignments yet. Yesterday was a little boring for the first half of the day because I just sat in a Regional Security Officer’s office waiting for them to print out a badge for me. …I’m still waiting. I have a temp badge though…so I’ve got that going for me. The afternoon was interesting as I got to meet the team I’ll be working with and then my boss and I went to a meeting on Sudan sanctions. Each sanctions regime has it’s own commission whose job it is to follow up on the sanctions, see if they’re being implemented/followed, etc. This particular meeting was with what is called a Panel of Experts (POE). The POE was really informative about the situation in Sudan/Darfur as they had just returned from there.I can talk more about this but I don’t really have time right now…
Today I got the opportunity to go to the French Mission for lunch with my boss. It was actually really cool as the sandwich was good and the Mission is on the 44th floor of some building downtown so it had a really nice view (even in the rain). The lunch was about Iran and so that was both informative and interesting. Then after that it was Somalia time so I went to a meeting on sanctions in Somalia.
I hope to write a little more about all this stuff and what the group I’m in actually does and whatnot (plus get caught up on posting all the pictures from when Teresa was out here in February) but right now its time for bed…
