I’ve been getting a lot of questions from friends, readers and colleagues about how I am adjusting to the new job. It’s only really been a month, so there’s a lot of HELP ME still going on. Throw in a very rushed and imperfect move and you have the recipe for me to continually wonder whether I’ve done the right thing.

I think I have, for a lot of reasons personal and professional, even though some stuff is yet unresolved. But here is short list of the things that I do miss most.

1) Running the podcast. Now Rob has done a pretty good job with it. He’s learning how hard it can be to get things organized when the clock is running low, but so far I am very pleased. But I miss doing the intros and nagging guests and planning a month ahead but no further. The podcast is the best thing I have ever done, I will be back on it soon and I am happy it is still going.

2) Yelling at my former colleagues. The part of PR that has proven probably most difficult is restraining that impulse I have to yell at bad writing, bad journalism, bad editing and general stupidity in games journalism. I wouldn’t do this *a lot*, but I’d do it enough and retweet other people’s complaints enough that it became something that I considered a part of who I was as a writer. Now only a couple of people get to hear my rants about how no one cares about the craft any more.

3) Yelling at my current colleagues. The past month has seen so much good and bad and misplaced marketing that I’ve wanted to write screed after screed about trailers, marketing strategies, money sucks, gamification…I guess you could say that I miss yelling.

4) Being forced to play new games. Though I do not miss reviewing games, I miss the fact that I would have to play them because an editor had asked me to. I haven’t really touched Dawn of War 2: Retribution yet, or Cities in Motion. In the last two months, the only new game I can say that I put a lot of time into was Magicka, and even that largely to help a friend with her review. It is hard to stay current when you are thinking about games all day but not forced to play particular ones at night. Now that I am settled and aiming to blog properly, this should pick up. But I am less likely to just play something random – it will be something I am expecting.

Now there are lots of things I don’t miss. I don’t miss assigning scores to things. I don’t miss rushing to meet an editorial deadline with only ten hours of play in and knowing I need at least another ten or fifteen. I don’t miss writing previews. I don’t miss looking at my monthly pay and sighing like a failure.

In all, a good move. But there are still some regrets.

Next up, French character post. Promise.