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at work, our office is being renovated over the next month. it’s been interesting packing up everything—it feels like the office is going on summer vacation. 

i’ll miss my workspace. i’ve been working in the same area for five years. five years! and now to go a month without setting foot in the place? how strange! i hesitate to say it, but i’ll miss the office.

~~~*memories*~~~

my new workspace is on a different level, in a broom closet with no windows. i think i’ll just spend the majority of my time in the cafe, overlooking the entire bay area.

(Source: scienceview.berkeley.edu)

today my close coworker told me she dreamed about us solving some problem at work.

then i remembered that i too had dreamed of us solving some problem at work.

yikes.

i got to pilot our new curriculum in a real 7th grade classroom today.

the students called me “mr. <insert my last name here>”. 

mr. <insert my last name here>!!!

on a personal level:

1. it made me feel fucking old.
2. i don’t believe i was ever that young. and certainly never that stupid.
3. the kids didn’t annoy me. (i am astounded: i think i hate children)
4. i guess i could be maybe a teacher…one day.
5. perhaps my job isn’t so bad after all.

anyway, it made an impression, and i learned a lot.

just heard that an ex-coworker, who quit his cushy job to become a baker, got a book deal for his baker-blog.

i got to help interview two students for an open position at work today. 

what a learning experience. 

the most important thing i learned, for myself, is to beware (and prepare for) hypothetical questions. those can easily reveal personality flaws.

we have a fish tank at work. for the past month, one of the two guppies we have was slowly dying. it sat at the bottom of the tank on this flat stone. the other guppy only left its side to eat.

yesterday, the sick guppy died.

today, its buddy died.

woe is me for watching these damn fish.

i have to stay late for a retirement party at work today. so what if there’s going to be wine and paella? i just want to go home at a reasonable time. is that so much to ask?