Apr 21 2008
a day at the office
As I’m sure I’ve mentioned a time or two before, I’m doing this self-portrait-a-day project for a year. I’m halfway done (hurrah!), and excited about that, but the point is that because I’m doing this project, I take a lot of pictures of myself, most of which are promptly deleted forever, but unless I have some sort of stellar idea for the day’s photo, I usually take a few different ones and then decide later what my official daily photo will be. I’m sure you wanted to know that.
The reason I’m telling you this is because today I brought my camera to the office. My boss was gone all day and I had a Very Boring Project to work on, of which I completed about 1/3, and in between working on this Very Boring Project, I decided to take a few photos. My photo of the day ended up having nothing to do with being in my office, so I thought I’d put the photos I took today up here. Because I might as well. Let the fascination begin.
This is my desk. Those are my feet up on my desk. I wish I had been smart enough to click away from all the chattiness I was engaged in at the time, but that just didn’t happen. Um, wait. I didn’t mean that. IMing people is part of my job. Yeah.
For some reason, I thought it was necessary to wear sunglasses. Maybe it was really bright in there. Whatever. To make up for any unintentional coolness (cool is just not me), my hair is sticking out crazily. So there’s that.
Yep, I have a file on my desk marked “Dead People.” It’s totally necessary.
Other than the cool files on my desk, such as “Dead People” I have a lot of other files in filing cabinets all over the place. I mainly don’t do much with them, other than to put them away after I’ve taken one out, but my aforementioned Very Boring Project? It involved having to put a piece of paper into each file. By noon I wanted to die. And then someone could’ve filed me under “Dead People” and all would’ve been well with the world. At least I didn’t get any papercuts.
Sometimes I like to go hide in the supply closet. It’s quiet in there.
These are in the supply closet. There’s also a fake Christmas tree. I don’t decorate, so they stay there all the time, next to the envelopes.
And there it is. I told you it would be fascinating.
I need to go eat some Pringles now.
I went over to Europe last week and was reminded that they have paprika flavored pringles. Which I still think is gross.
I like the pic of you in the supply closet.
If you can rearrange that narrative to somehow make it seem like you IM dead people for a living, well…that would be something.
Definitely something.
Ooh, I’m going to make a file on my desk called Dead People. That should raise some eyebrows.
I should print out a page that is titled “DEAD PEOPLE” and post it above the cash register in my store, right next to the page that has the names of people who have written us bad checks. Maybe potential-hot check writers will draw a helpful correlation
I still love those shoes. And that Halloween stuff.
Cute shoes! I have a file at my desk that says “Deceased,” but that’s not as cool as your “Dead People” file.