Move along folks… Nothing below the fold but a rant… About office space, no less… Trust me, this bores even me (and you all know how easy I am to amuse)…
To all the people interested in seeing the interior of my old office: please note that contrary, apparently, to everyone’s expectations, I am still here.
Yes: I am leaving. Soon. I promise. Without even asking Ed to chain himself to my desk in protest. Before, in fact, the incoming occupant is scheduled to arrive. I would have left sooner, if someone had gotten me the keys to the new office earlier.
I am, however, currently still here. Which means, ideally, that keys to this office should not have been distributed to what appears to be every random person who asked for one. Even more ideally, those random people could consider, oh, I don’t know… perhaps knocking before they try out their keys to see whether they work – particularly given that my light is on. After all, you never know what you might wander in on, entering an office space unannounced.
When you do barge in unannounced, though, it’s probably a bit redundant – certainly to me – to observe: “Oh! There’s someone here!” It’s probably also a bit rude to ask if you can have a look around anyway – and it’s definitely beyond the pale to ask if you can return, later in the day, to give some friends the grand tour.
But back to marking now – papers, time, etc.