Employee Appreciation Week

It's Employee Appreciation Week at work. This was also the week I wanted to stop eating crap, but since the week mostly involves "rewarding" the employees with a lot of crap (bagels, etc.), I feel it would be rude of me if I did not partake. I'll be good about it, though. Anyway, on Monday everyone got a single long-stemmed rose with nowhere to put it unless someone already had a vase. So I cut off a good chunk of the stem and placed it in a styrofoam cup, as you can see here. I took a picture of it today because this is the prettiest it's going to be.

Half-Assed Pysanky Drawing

I illustrated some of my file folders at work in hopes that it would add at least a bit of sunshine to my dull, dull days. I recently saw someone selling pysanky at one of the local farmers' markets, which inspired this number.

Office Flair 2008

Welcome to the 2008 edition of my office flair. This isn't all of it, but I wanted to point out some of my newer acquisitions. From left to right:

-The R2-D2 toy has been featured before; it's a Japanese import that I bought online, I forget where now.
-The jellyfish lamp was a purchase from ThinkGeek.
-The sunglasses are the Oakley Grapevine model. They're also not flair, but they're in the picture, so...
-The picture I bought from a friend of mine who does that stuff on the side...I don't think he has a website yet, otherwise I'd link to it. The frame I got from Target.
-The notepad is from the Anne Taintor collection.

A Great View

There are leaks in the ceiling at work. This is the temporary solution...

Meeting Notes

I'm horrible at meetings. (More on that here.) I was going through my notebook and came across this sketch. Dunno who I was thinking about there. I mean, that's supposed to be me there with a scarf, but that heart? This was not recent. Looking at the stuff I wrote around it, I'm guessing this is from May 2005. So yeah, not recent at all.

Office Flair

I've shown pictures of my workspace before, but I wanted to showcase some new items. Yeah, there's that card (I bought it for myself...feh...), but what I really wanted to show you was a gift I got today from a friend and former co-worker. :) She's had a lot of free time lately, so she's been making a bunch of stuff from subversive cross stitch. I love it. If I had free time I could see myself doing that too, even making up my own. I have some bathroom-related ideas...

Water, lots of it.

So I'm on break, taking a walk down the hill to the area with a bunch of abandoned buildings. Here's one of those buildings. I don't know if that's a broken pipe or what, but that can't be good. Here's the thing: Should I report it, and if so, to whom?

Ick?

Apparently someone refilled the lotion bottle with soap. Why? Does the soap dispenser right there not work? There's also another bottle of soap at the other end of the counter that was actually soap to begin with. I don't know what's going on here.

Office Fun

One of my coworkers recently left the company. Other coworkers wanted me to think of something to help properly send her off. (Never mind that I had my own things to do for her. :P) Anyway, one look at my calendar here and I was inspired. With some help from the marketing department, I put together a picture of her from five years ago with the following acronym:


Kooky
Racy
Inventive
Sassy
Talented
Intelligent
Naughty


Good times.

Break

My office switched locations recently. I'm now in this place surrounded by other buildings that appear to be...uh...vacant. So I've decided that on break I will hang out in this abandoned area, whether it's to go for a walk or just sit on one of the benches over here. There's something about this tree that made me want to take a picture of it, but I have no idea what that something is.

5:00

This is what I stare at when the working day is over...or rather, when the working day is supposed to be over. I sit out here for about ten minutes and zone out, then I go back in to either do more work or go on the internet for a while, depending. I still have dialup at home. I know, pathetic.

Office Flair

I am a crazy person with a crazy desk full of flair. I was bored yesterday and it was slightly after hours, so I decided to take pictures of the stuff on my desk. The monkey is a white elephant. (I know, shocker.) He doesn't have an official name, though he's been called many things. Raj and Spank immediately come to mind. And as some of you can probably tell, yes, I was at the Sharks' home opener.

Um, let's see...there's a duck, some normal office supplies, a high school picture of one of my friends, some national flags, and Eve, the sensitivity consultant. Go here for more information. The calendar you can kind of see in this picture is the 2006 Cubes Calendar, which came with my order. It's quite amusing.

The elephant came from Target when they had their "Global Bazaar". R2-D2 makes noise, which is fun. (Not at random, though. That would not be good for the workplace.) The lightsaber is a Disneyland souvenir, the perfume was a Christmas present from my sister, and I have a few different masks that I rotate. Oh, and between the perfume and the mask is Hanae. Touch her and face my wrath. :P