Suzanne has this habit of wandering the halls of AOTA in the middle of the afternoon when she's feeling unmotivated. So she'll come up to my cube and stand in the middle of the door and go, "Hi! How's it going?"
Barb: Fine.
[pause]
Barb: And you?
Suzanne: [inching further into cube] Okay. Just taking a break. I'm not feeling very motivated.
Barb: Uh huh. [stares at computer]
Suzanne: I'm not here for anything work related. Just a break.
Barb: Right. [stares at computer harder]
[pause]
Suzanne: Well, you look busy. I should go.
Barb: Right. Bye.
Every day this happens. Sometimes she gets more encouraged by my "How's it going for you?" and babbles on more.
Today, however, the routine was interrupted by Jeff, department director, who was asking me where the thing I had done this morning ("Get this done. NOW!") was. The thing that I had put on his chair AND emailed to him when I was done. So naturally I had to stand there while he looked at it and made comments and asked me questions that I didn't know the answers to ("Is this just a proposal, or are we doing it?" "It's just a proposal." "Are we going to do it?" "I really don't know." "Okay, could you divide this up into definites and proposals? And make a summary sheet putting everything into various categories so the head of our division can just glance at it?" "Um, okay."). Thank God he leaves at 2:30. So I'll do this, and leave it for Krishni to find and review tomorrow morning. That'll be fun for her.
ANYWAY. So I feel I was totally justified in getting that cookie. Totally.
Also, you should check out Tomato Nation. The girl who writes it is really really amusing. I aspire to be her. Except for the smoking part. She's "Sars" from MightyBigTV, for those of you who go there. I highly recommend it.
Current song in my head:
"It's Just One of Those Days"