By J. Bird
For once, the boss is behaving in a reasonable manner toward me (“Pat” is getting the brunt of his moody weirdness today) – he even bought me lunch! So I can’t gripe too much about him, and I’ve been cranking through my workload at a steady pace, so I’m in a nice space right now. Earlier, I got to be Delivery Bird, which was extremely cool – getting outside on a beautiful day like today is always a treat, and a rare one, at that. I’m sure such errands will suck in February, but for now, I’ll take Delivery Duty any day.
The quirky thing that I’ve noticed about today’s swarm of office workers is that it is almost unilaterally blue shirt and yellow tie day downtown today. Nobody sent me the memo, but that’s just fine – I’ve never been a bandwagoneer. But I was on the elevator earlier and there were four guys on there in grey pants, blue shirts, and yellow ties. The guy in the grey pants, blue shirt, and red tie stuck out like a sore thumb. I like to think I was a vision of “fashion forward” in my black suit and shirt, but they were probably whispering about me as soon as I stepped off.
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Posted on September 6, 2006