Smiley face, ita. I know Outlook sometimes turns smiley faces into "J"s.

Cool! Thanks.

We have cubes here, with extremely high walls, and I love it. The walls are almost 6' high, so you have cupboards above your desk and lamps underneath them right over your work surface. I'd kvetch less if I didn't have to have my back to the main aisle.

My last job had pretty low cube walls, and it was nightmarish. As a project manager, I was either writing furiously or talking furiously on the phone. We don't do well in clusters.

I saw some cubes with doors in some of the new office space here--they have sliding doors with translucent "glass." That was kinda weird. It feels like you're putting yourself into a topless box, and someone can just reach in and pluck you right out the top.

I despair of ever having an office to myself, or even being able to face the action instead of face away it. I'm old, dammit. I've paid my dues.

Huh. Finally did some work on this conference call. I've been on it for months to no avail. I was halfway useful!

I'm leaving. take that work.

Me too! It's snowing all yuk like. Blech.

Oh, thank goodness -- HR just gave the OK to leave. So it's not on me.

I still need to read this one thing, though.

We have a 'sick room.' But folks often loan out their single offices to people who need to pump and who share an office.

This day can't end too soon.

::doesn't miss Michigan::

My therapist says nice things about me to me and I don't like it. I suspect she's trying to make me feel good about myself, and that always puts me on edge.

It's a good thing therapy's cheap, at least.

ARM - one more time We took a three year - and like nora's it can only go up 2 per year and there is a cap - which I can't remember at the moment - but numberwise it all made sense - and the plan it to do a fixed rate soon. The ideal situation is that we move to a 15 yr fixed - we can't quite do that yet....but let me kill the credit card debt and maybe.

heh. I'm just happy I have a desk that is all mine. They have moved DH in and out of offices at his co. My feeling - real estate games are silly in offices , however , if you spend your day on the phone, you need a door.

I would rather be cleaning my house.

Done! I can leave!

...once I figure out how to get all this paper in the car so I can grade some of the problem cases at home. Sigh.

I had a job where 3 sides of the cube were open, and most people worked on the phone most of the time they were in the office -- except me. I was supposed to be writing. That was ROUGH.