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.

Not across from the mens room. Not sharing a wall with the standpipe (my god, when they flush that thing, it is like being inside a jet engine. )

Darn you able to leavers!!!

Seriously. I was all excited about how it finally got to be after lunch time on Friday, but then I got to the people are leaving posts.

Nice lunch options.

You can bet your allowance that came into play in my last job hunt. Okay, sure, it's nowhere near practical and I didn't get the gig with the good lunch, but I do get wistful every now and again.

One of the times when I was jobhunting with no urgency I asked an interviewer about the work-from-home policy. I was told sharply by my recruiter (guess word got back fast) to never do that again. Enh. That's me working from a position not of desperation. The distance that job was from home, and the headaches I was having? It was a huge deal, not something that we could work out once I'd been there a while and they'd come to trust me. It shouldn't be seen as a sign of laziness or evasiveness, though.

Okay, I can't take it. Leaving now. Happy weekend and Easter to those that celebrate it!

I know it's CA law (and new york) to have places to pump that aren't the bathroom, but I'll tell you that schools do not have such available space, which is probably one of many reasons I stopped.

Bookcases are almost installed in the house. It required two trips to get them and I had an irksome restaurant run-in.

New glasses (3 pairs, including one set of shades) have arrived. While I love the frugality of Zenni (three of my 4 new pair cost a quarter what the 4th cost all because they were Zenni glasses) the frames aren't as nice. The other pair I picked up from the optometrist (can someone please explain the dif between an optometrist and an opthomalogist?) are Gucci and are lovely but wickedly expensive and I think, when they adjusted them, they may have bent the frames enough that the lens isn't sitting flush.