Well...this is certainly unique.
I've now been working in my office for almost two decades now. Over those 19+ years things have changed, although not an awful lot. I still have electrical and computer cables strewn everywhere, I still have stuff stacked up on every available inch of real estate, and I still wish I could have a window looking out at the world like we do at the front desk.
But you can't have everything, right? In fact, to quote a great American philosopher, “sure, it'd be nice to have everything, but where would you put it”?
That, however, is neither here nor there. One thing that HAS changed over the almost two decades I've been in this office is the lighting. The office has two overhead lights. Unfortunately, they're lights with rather funky and uncommon bulbs, and over the past few years those bulbs have become harder & harder to find. So, as the bulbs have recently begun to burn out, I've had to improvise, which means that today my office looks like this--
Yup; I have a standing lamp in one corner of my office, and in the other corner I have a table lamp sitting on the floor. Why is a table lamp sitting on the floor, you ask? Well, I answer, it's so it doesn't get in the way of my big wall calendar, which sits right above it. And as I've written about in here before, I live & die by that calendar.
So much so, in fact, that it's better to work in half darkness with a desk lamp on the floor than it is to have the calendar half covered up by a desk lamp on my desk.
So until things get worked out—if, indeed, they ever DO get worked out—should you for any reason visit my office, please cut me a little slack and try not to ask why there's a desk lamp sitting on my floor. Just realize that I'm doing the best I can.
Even if we both know that's a very low bar to clear.
8-)
Have a great weekend,
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