Pocket Universe

Selections from my week:

Sunday:
8 pm: You know, the weekend is never long enough.
10 pm: Yeah, hi, sleep? You can come now.
12am: Really.

Monday:
COWORKER: Wow. You look horrible. Rough night?
PENNY: Braaaaaains.
COWORKER: That reminds me, weren't you going to read Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and report back to me?
PENNY: It's still on my "To Be Read" list.
COWORKER: Well chop chop!

Tuesday:
5:30 am: What to wear, what to wear? Oh, hey! I have cute new sandals! Surely I can find a cute outfit to go with them!
6:00 am: Leave the house.
6:02 am: Discover I cannot drive in cute new sandals. Pull over, slip them off, drive barefoot. Whoops.
(They are still very cute sandals. And comfortable. As long as I'm not driving.)
(Also, driving barefoot feels odd. I don't like it.)

Wednesday:
I have erased Wednesday from my memory. Too much workplace politics. So instead, I remember sitting outside at a local coffee shop, writing an email to my mother (yay for a phone with a data plan) and doing some alter ego writing. Good day. Good day.

Thursday:
COORDINATOR FOR SISTER DEPARTMENT: So, um, Penny, I know this is short notice, but I need this desk you're sitting at.
PENNY: Well, I was supposed to be back at my regular office by now. When do you need me to vacate?
COORDINATOR: *sheepish* Now. Well, since you get in early, first thing tomorrow. Unless you want to move now. Let me show you the desks you can move to. And I apologize for the short notice. I just now learned myself.
PENNY: That is how things work here. *thinking* At least it's not like my first temp assignment here when I learned on a Wednesday that that Friday would be my last day. AND AT LEAST I STILL GET TO WORK OUT OF THE OFFICE CLOSE TO HOME! Good thing I didn't really unpack at this desk.

Friday:
After getting settled in at my new temporary desk:
COWORKER: So this is where they shoved you. Not too bad. You get some sun and a standing workstation.
PENNY: Yeah, it's tucked back in a corner, so maybe our sister department will forget I'm squatting at one of their stations. Also, I've set up my loose leaf teas. Maybe if I looked permanently settled in, they won't move me!
COWORKER: Are...are you feeling all right? You're not usually an optimist.
PENNY: It's Friday, I have a window desk, yummy tea, and hot water a mere three feet from my desk. If I cannot enjoy this, I'm not human.
COWORKER: *backing away* Ooooookay, pod person.

Saturday:
People, I am drinking a 2006 Sangiovese. It is divine. It is, without a doubt, the best wine I have ever had. I am swooning over it. And it's probably a good thing, because Adult Swim is showing a new G.I. Joe cartoon in a matter of minutes, and I know it's going to be painful, but I will watch it anyway because I grew up on the Sunbow cartoon back in the 80's, and it is the best cartoon ever! (Really, it is. If you argue this point you are wrong. Wrong, wrong, WRONG!) Anyway, nothing really compares to the Sunbow cartoon (except, possibly, the horribly wonderful G.I. Joe: The Movie), but I will still watch new G.I. Joe cartoons because dude, it's G.I Joe. I even watched that awful Valor vs. Venom a few years ago, and it was painful. So very painful. Have I learned my lesson? No.