life is hard
look here. i know some of you have to deal with pirates, visa issues, russian winter, and maybe even actual real-life political violence -- but let me assure you. meghan and i are having a very difficult time too. for example: yesterday morning we left our cozy suburban home for our cozy suburban office, which is situated about a mile away, at 10.15, because we wanted to leave plenty of time to get a cup of piping hot fair trade coffee from one of the many fine non-starbucks establishments in our cozy suburban downtown area.
then disaster struck: the sun and sparkling blue sky were so captivating that we overshot our turn (left on california avenue) by nearly a mile! and the sun was so warm, and our frantic scramble towards the office following the initial debacle so fast, that we were sweaty (neither glistening nor dewy but sweaty) by the time we reached the door marked "benetech." also, while we do have the best office in the building (corner; three windows; good view of coastal range), the potted tree in the corner is, shall we say, moving toward the light. going to that great domesticated forest in the sky. and so on.
like i said, things are difficult. perhaps most difficult of all: our new boss took us out for a wholesome organic lunch yesterday, then took us home to meet his kittens, after which we were expected to actually go back to work, where we do taxing things like learn the meaning of the term "grok" (yes, that was actually on our syllabus for yesterday). those kittens were CUTE. really -- what is the world coming to?!?
then disaster struck: the sun and sparkling blue sky were so captivating that we overshot our turn (left on california avenue) by nearly a mile! and the sun was so warm, and our frantic scramble towards the office following the initial debacle so fast, that we were sweaty (neither glistening nor dewy but sweaty) by the time we reached the door marked "benetech." also, while we do have the best office in the building (corner; three windows; good view of coastal range), the potted tree in the corner is, shall we say, moving toward the light. going to that great domesticated forest in the sky. and so on.
like i said, things are difficult. perhaps most difficult of all: our new boss took us out for a wholesome organic lunch yesterday, then took us home to meet his kittens, after which we were expected to actually go back to work, where we do taxing things like learn the meaning of the term "grok" (yes, that was actually on our syllabus for yesterday). those kittens were CUTE. really -- what is the world coming to?!?
posted by amelia at 11:21 PM
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I hate you. Ok, not really, but you make it hard. Life isn't the same here without you. There's just an empty desk where you used to live. Sometimes I go and turn on your desk light just so that I can turn it off again in 3 hours and grumble that you never turn off your light.
But what really sucks is that while I'm putting my affairs in order (sounds like I'm dying), you're playing with kittens in the sunny perfection that is Palo Alto.
Ah, poor life choices.
i stared at your desk for awhile today. and wailed. just a little.
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