The past week at work has consisted largely of me sitting immobile and staring blankly at my screen. I have been waiting for the arrival of "The Complete Reference: FrameMaker 7," and I am slightly embarrassed that I am happy to report that this 847-page tome is here. I am already up to page 193. What has my life come to, that I have been looking forward to receiving an instruction manual?
On a huge plus side, it actualy feels like summer today. It is the first day this year about which that can be said! Hurrah! Sunshine and no clouds, both in large quatities!
I recently combined both of the above facts into one single activity. My office is on the 26th Floor, and we have a large ledge outside -- one might easily call it a balcony -- on which former employees used to take breaks. I just took the manual, a chair, and my cigarettes outside, thinking to relax in the sun. I am happy to report that I did get about half an hour out there before the heat became too much for me, and there is already an appreciable difference in the pasty-white ghoulish nature of my arm-skin. However, I had planned without factoring in the element of sweat, so by the time I came inside, my shirt was rather damp, and I am rather smelly. Thank goodness my desk is at quite a remove from everyone else's. To make matters worse, I returned from lunch and promptly dropped an unopened bottle of Arizona Tea on the linoleum floor, where it just as promptly shattered, and then sprayed a gushing wave of Tea all over a five-foot-wide circle underneath my desk and chair. The bottle itself splintered into the tiniest shards of glass imaginable, making clean-up loads of fun.
So, to recap: I am sitting at my desk, treading upon a sticky, Tea-scented floor, and listening to microscopic grains of glass scraping underneath my feet. My shirt is damp, I am sweaty, I am slightly smelly, and I have 654 pages of a software manual to read. The sun, however, is out. Sea is home. And I am meeting the hottest boy south of the North Pole for dinner, where we will discuss things like our impending trip to Disney World.
On the whole, I would say that today's scales definitely are tipping towards "Good."