That's a lovely room, in a way I'm coming to realise I just don't do lovely. My room is fairly tidy...for me. Now's as good a time as any for me to be photographing my apartment (fuck, I went another day without organising a cleaner or carpet cleaning--see, there could be
better
days)...god, vapid.
Anyway, I have one status report to write and one more check of my emails to make before I can call it a day.
My boss checked with me today to make sure I didn't tell my manager he didn't make me cry. Ha! No. I described it as "an incredibly illuminating discussion about many things, including the limitations we have on resources". My ambassador father would be proud.
My mother distinctly less so.
My replacement computer is supposed to arrive tomorrow, and I *have* to go in tomorrow afternoon, since there's a mystery all-IT event with drinking afterwards. That requires cameras. They say to bring your iPhones. What kind of IT department is that? Sometimes I despair of them...
Love the room, Anne. The sitting/desk area is FANTASTIC.
Anne,
how excellent. I love the room.
Thank you all! I'm still in a state of giddy disbelief that it's done.
ita, I hope your mystery event with iPhones is fun or at least not cringe-inducing. I'm a little leery of required work events that promise any kind of novel activity.
I'm asked to cover these desks all the time for extremely high profile people. But then when I go to interview for the job, they pick someone else...who then asks me to cover the desk when they're away. And then they all write glowing performance reviews.
I wish there was someone in the HR chain of command that you could ask that very well-formulated question.
I wonder if I can bow out of the thing, pleading Ice Cream Sandwich?
My boss assures me a) it'll be rad and b) he won't be there. Also 1) it'll be rad.
And my manager assures me--I'm good to take time to go home for my sister's birthday. She might not be clear on the impact but I unleashed the feels.
This morning, I noticed that the birds had noticed the bird feeders I had put up in my own back yard, and there were 3 finches on one of them, in my own back yard.
Happy thing!
(and then I left the house and everything went to hell)