Blessings

As I sit here and listen to the school start delays in the various outlying counties, I thank my lucky stars that I don't live in the middle of nowhere where they aparently can't clear the roads of snow.

No, I live in the middle of a large city where they can't clear the roads of snow.

^_^

Habits & Queers

I'm trying to say in the habit (since I'm starting anew here at the new BGA) of clearing my desk before I leave at the end of the day. And may I just say that it was so nice to come in to a clean desk.

("You're so nice. You're not good, you're not bad, you're just nice...")

There was supposedly a GLBT/Queer group here at the BGA, and a web search finds their home page (last updated in 1998!!!). The more general GLOBE website does not list an active organization, though. I emailed the general address that's listed in our system, but no word back as yet. The gentleman who was the previous contact is still here at the agency, but I feel a little awkward dropping him a line since there does not appear to be an active group any more.

I fought the coma and the coma won

Had lunch with claddah76 today here at the BGA cafeteria. Post-lunch I was in desperate need of a nap (food coma!), so I sat at my desk, closed my eyes and dozed lightly for about 15 minutes, until ironmanjt called me back from an earlier phone conversation.

This new office is much more monkish than my last one was. Yes, it's great to have my own office so I can do things like sit up with my eyes closed and not worry about getting yelled at, but at the same time I don't have nearly the contact with other people that I'm used to getting and my ESFJ self finds that a tad disconcerting.

Part of it is, I'm sure, my relative newness in the office - it has't fully trickled out that the fiscal law attorney is here now and open for business, so I'm not getting the calls and stop-bys that I used to get at the last place. But part of it is also the physical structure of the office, where I (and four other colleagues) am more isolated from the rest of the office since we're across the hall and down a little from da boss in a separate mini-suite. Unless you're coming specifically to see one of us, there's no reason why anyone would be just passing through, which cuts down on a lot of office chatter/gossip/etc.

But anyway. The 15 minutes was enough, and now am once more hitting this memo they assigned to me yesterday. It's not due for two weeks and I had already written the majority of the thing in an email to da boss last week (before it became a formal request), so is just a matter of polishing now.