So here I am, spending another less than thrilling evening babysitting a dorm full of 18-24 year olds and hoping that tonight they don’t blow themselves up/light the building on fire/get drunk and puke any where/trash something/etc…

I could be doing something usefull like working on some paperwork that I need to do, except that stuff is on my portable hard drive… which I have…  However the cable to connect it to a computer… well, that is what I’m lacking. :(

So instead to try and pass the time I find myself discovering things like the bizarre pillow below or looking for a decent recording of London Underground’s “Mind The Gap.”

Tomorrow however should be a halfway decent day, but to find out why you’ll just have to click on “more.”

I’m moving to a new office!  No more being squeezed into a cubblehole in the corner of the offices of a different workgroup… a workgroup that really wants to use the space that my desk is currently in… for a couch!  My current workspace wouldn’t be so bad if I had maybe 10 square feet more… and it didn’t get to be about 95 degrees most summer afternoons too…

My new workspace however is MUCH cooler.  For starters it’s bigger, I may now have room to actually work.  I’m going to have file cabinets, I used to have one in my current workspace until the people who’s area I’m occupying took away my desk.  I managed to get replacement a few months later by salvaging it from the garbage heap it was headed for.  Heck, I’ll probably have enough room now for all of my books.

I have windows!  My current workspace has a window, it looks out into another workspace.  The people who work over there like to use my window to spy on me…  I don’t like those people…  My new workspace is in a different building up the hill from my current building.  I have real windows that look out over the rolling countryside, it’s quite picturesque.  Plus since we’re on the second floor, nobody will be spying on us through our window! :D

FREE FOOD!!!!  My new office is actually up where the cooks have their offices… and they like me :).  That means I now have an open invitation to eat lunch at the good dining hall, which A) serves Coke and not Pepsi, and B)IS FREE!

My office will get cleaned by minions regularly.  My old workspace used to occasionally get a pass by a student to take out the trash, but because I was buried in the corner, far removed from everything, most of the time my workspace got neglected…  On the other hand my new office will get cleaned regularly.  Since the cooks get their offices cleaned at least weekly by students, and our new office is by the cooks, our new office will get cleaned too!