I'm outta here, too!

(And apparently am darned to heck. Damn.)

I have a single cube wall. I sit parallel with the door (as in, I look over my right shoulder and I'm looking into the hall.) I hate people being able to see me walking by (distracts me,) hence the wall. I get accused of hiding, but whatever. If I really wanted to hide, I'd go freeze in the operations room which is card-access only.

Ours are custom-which apparently we get to further customize, and then we have soji screens to function as doors. We're all usually up wandering around anyway, so desk/office/cube is less of a thing.

Oh, my other favorite thing! We have giant whiteboards everywhere for sketching out ideas or illustrating how something works, but on most of them, there is a side or corner for silly stuff. Ours had sort of a COMM on it, stuff like: "Can you not pull it out of my thing, (coworker)-" other coworker. One has silly band names.

That's not a cube. That's a wall.

Well, two sides were just a little higher than the desk, and the third was higher with the storage unit and whatever.

we have soji screens to function as doors

Cool! We kid about putting up shower curtains.

While we've been in temp space people have come up with some interesting improvized cubes. I've seen shower curtains, funky colored fabric, screens, bookshelves, pvc pipe with tabbed curtains, even one of those metal foldy tent things decorated with fairy lights.

Sounds like there are smart and valid reasons to go with an ARM, if the circumstances are right.

I was truly shocked by how much money I would have qualified for in a mortgage and that was nearly 8 years ago now. Happily, I lucked into a house where I wanted to live for a price that let me get a mortgage that I could reasonably hope to pay even if I lost my job, at least for a while (as I'm now proving).

Memo to self: Real Estate, not for the foolish.

Okay, next job? I want interesting seating arrangements. Where in the cover letter does that go?

Have I mentioned how sick I am of the gale force winds this winter? Cause I am, most sincerely. I know Boston is a windy city - windier than Chicago I've heard, but this winter it's seemed even more so. Do other area-istas feel the same, or is it just my tolerance that's decreasing.

Frank, the second time I went to Boston ('98 or '99, I think), I was walking downtown with some friends when the wind whipped my scarf away from me and made it take off into the night sky like a kite, never to be seen again.

I've occupied my current corner office (great view, lousy insulation) for most of the past 19 years, except for one span in the late 90s when I gave it up to photo managers and shared a room with the Linotronic and work sink.

Yeah, it's sad that you can't really base a job decision on the little things that would make you so much happier day-to-day in a job. Like having a good cube/office/window or whatever. Good coffee. Nice lunch options. Coworkers that are good to talk to about non-work stuff. Stuff like that.