I've been working here over a week now and have found there is definetely a monotonous standard routine which gets interrupted on a consistent (almost hourly) basis. Part of my job is to keep informed on whats happening over the entire battlespace, so its akin to watching the news all day, but plenty of Biggie-Wigs like to change the mission on a moments notice.  It makes for a lot of entertainment.

 They were not kidding about long hours.  Similar to getting acclimated to the heat, it takes a little while to get acclimated to the 7-day a week 14-16 hour days.  Of course, with this type of schedule, you learn to incorporate life-issues (like laundry, exercise, buying Pringles, etc.) into your work day.  After stopping off at the little (free) Coffee/Tea/Juice stand set up in one of the major hallways of the building at 11:00 pm, I realized that this place is not too unlike working at one of those quirky “Dot.Com” companies.  Everybody works all the time, but everything you need is right there:  Free drinks, free food, free laundry, free popcorn, etc.  The Army had the idea years before Yahoo!