Some Down Time

Taking a little afternoon break while listening to Vampire Weekend ...

I sit right in front of the two big bosses offices and while I had spent most of the time complaining about such arrangement prior to the move, I am definitely seeing the advantages of the setting now.

First, my fine ears are able to hear evil witch sounds that come out of the boss' office usually indicative of bullshit work being concocted, and therefore am able to warn to some extent my fellow coworkers of upcoming crap about to be dropped on our desks. Other uses including gossips, knowing who are the suckups, and who's getting an earful... Information is important at this time and age, my friends...and gossips/dramas seem to push the day along.

Today, however, the activities seem to be pretty darn scarce and I'm sitting here anxiously tapping my feet looking at the clock going backwards. We lost another coworker who happily spent his 2 last weeks working out a Rubik Cube - it was the going-away-drinking last night... maybe it's just my imagination (probably is just my imagination) but there is a bit of melancholy and death-associated-boredom in the air. Seats get emptied, seats get refilled. New people get screwed over. Story of corporate life.