Long Day and Witty Shirts
It’s been a long, mixed day. I spent the first half temporarily docking in Tamale’s office of outrageousness so I could be there if he had any questions. While I love my cube and its walls, the change of scenery did me good. The Grass room is great fun to be in, but the Outrageous room is great to be a part of. It takes a while to get used to the randomness, afterwhich you just start spouting it too.
SB hunted me down in the Outrageous room to swat me with some — flowers! Flowers aren’t everything to me, but the gesture was sweet all the same. Even better that the flowers were real and not Frankensteined with chemicals to keep them “fresh” longer. SP came in and saw the flowers so I felt it was my duty to tell him where they came from.
SP: I prefer that you let me make up my own explanations for why you might have flowers! Then I can incite scandal and gossip.
Me: No!! This is why i am pre-empting you! Because you make stuff up.
SP: I do. It is my specialty.
The “make stuff up” is related to this shirt he often wears, “I make stuff up”. That’s the thing about engineers and ops - they tend to wear plain shirts with witty sayings on them. It’s so common that seeing an op without that type of shirt is unusual. In fact, this evening, the CEO stopped Op GM and said, “Someone get a marker. We need to write something on GM’s shirt. This isn’t right, he’s wearing a plain shirt!”
GM replied, “You can just write it on my forehead.”
Later, I left work late for (hopefully) the last Friday and spent a lot of time waiting for public transportation. In result, I’m extremely tired. Definitely need to catch up on rest on Saturday because the upcoming week is going to be challenging without my boss to call the shots. Also, our first game is on Monday. Here’s to hoping we break our losing streak!
