My day (part II)

10:58am

I go get more water for tea. This time, it will be "Throat Coat" with slippery elm bark. I really recommend this tea! It is really groovy! The certificates are coming out of the inkjet. I also offer to get more ice for our secretary.

11:16amWhile downstairs, I stopped in on Judy. She is our video specialist, and also the Boss’ wife. Her office is a video studio in the lower remotest far corner of our building. She calls it "the Cave". I stopped by specifically to ask about her thoughts on Thursday’s live call-in show (on our Bond issue). The space next to hers is a large open meeting room, which we also use for shooting productions. Well, that’s also where the construction crew has been doing most of their work the last few weeks. But Judy says they’ve been great to work with and around, and they are already picking the room up, and everything should be okay for our live show.

She asked me about my cold, and we joked about how I resist taking medications, or even things to make my allergies easier. I told her that today I am feeling more perky and can concentrate (compared to yesterday, which was warm, so they ventilated the building and I was sneezing like crazy), but when I go to change tasks I kind of have that brain cloud and forget what I was going to do.

She got a phone call, so I grabbed my tea water and ice and made my way back to my cube.

11:17amJudy calls to share her laughter – she hung up from the phone, then turned around and asked herself "now, what was I going to do?". We had a good giggle. "I’m not contagious! Honest!!"

The boss asks me to turn my music down, and since Angela is leaving, I just plug my phones back in.

The printout is done. I will leave about 10 minutes before noon, to go run the whole thing over to our printshop, then go meet Greg for lunch.

Greg is a friend from church, and also on the Technical Services Ministry InfoTech group. He is incredibly smart. Knowledge just rolls out of him like…something. He loaned me two of his favorite books – Accelerated Learning for the 21st Century, and Mind Mapping – about 2 years ago. I’ve been trying to get them back to him, but keep forgetting or don’t have them with me, etc. So, we decided to have lunch at the Chinese restaurant next to my apartment, then I will run and get them when we are done!

11:30amMarci, our secretary, leaves for lunch. I pull my headphones to my temples so I can hear our phones ring. I have 20 minutes to kill. Instead of opening one of the monster projects, I think I will just work at updating our online calendar for next year until time to leave.

01:12pmI’ve settled in from returning to lunch. Greg and I had a good meal. After catching each other up on today’s projects and life in general, I shared about how tithing has been such a blessing to me. He shared similarly. Then we discussed the church’s website (he’s also on that group, which I am head of). Then we made a hasty exit. I got his books for him, and he got to see my apartment in its "in progress cleaning" state. *self-reproaching smile* I guess that’s what I’ll be doing with free time tonight – cleaning.

On my way to eat, after leaving the printshop, I called Animal Control. I had to stop, again, for a chow crossing the street at a certain hundred block. A month or so ago, she was crossing with her puppies, during PM drive time, and one of them got hit (I stopped in time). The driver that hit it picked it up and walked it down to the vet across the street. I got the owners out of their house and told them to secure the animals, and about the puppy.

I don’t know if the puppy survived or not. What I do know is the beautiful adult dog was running willy-nilly through traffic today in the rain. So I called animal control, and asked them to give them a stern lecture. I don’t want to see the chow locked up, nor them get a ticket (but, if that’s what it takes….), I just want to see them keep the animal safe, or give her to someone who can. I don’t have a problem with animals roaming, but not in the city, especially not on such a busy street.

My tea is probably done steeping. *grin* Also, I am switching from the CD to the Ambient channel on NetRadio.com.

01:56pmI sneeze my head off!

I find it on the floor under my desk. Everything is backwards when you are looking at yourself pick you up.

My IM friend from earlier is back. She is trying to set up her buddy icon. I hope I am helping. Its amazing…I have 29 people on my buddy list, and there’s only one on. *sigh* I mean, one is enough! But, still. If she logs out, I will be alone.

Speaking of alone, my coworker Angela is part time. She works full-full-half day Monday through Wednesday, then has Thursday and Friday off. She works Wednesday morning, so, I am alone in my cube, too.

I have started working on one of the monster projects. Its one I’ve mentioned for weeks now: I am creating cover art for a brochure. I need to represent 4 cultures, and 4 types of art. So I have settled on showing a person in each culture’s classic regalia. I have a Greek in ..what are they called…not a toga, the real name..anyway, in one of those, a Japanese man in a haroi? I am waiting on a Native American image of a dancer in regalia, and I need to go to the library and find an African tribesperson in traditional garb.

Something I’ve learned while working on this project, is that most cultures have some form of loose robe as their traditional clothing, and that pants are a "western" innovation of recent. This is interesting to me, because if I could get by wearing a toga here at work, I would. Western clothing is too binding, and largely unnecessary for the bulk of the population.

Anyway, I am drawing or rendering these figures by hand/computer into simple line/silhouette. That is very time consuming. Despite my graphic design training, I am only a beginning illustrator. And I do hand work so rarely (stop giggling, some of you) that my skills have basically rotted off.

Okay, quit laughing.

Continued….