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I spent a bit too much time just now uploading a mass quantity of photographs onto my flickr account. Most are from Sara's quasi Surprise Party, and some are some random photos of cycling adventures. enjoy.
This week was my last week before I transition to my new job. On Wednesday, my coworkers threw a delightful potluck for me, which was fun, and afterwards presented me with a poster of Star Trek: the Next Generation, which generated a number of laughs. Interestingly, my other supervisor, with whom I have spent a good number of hours alone on long road trips, is apparently a big Trekkie and totally in love with Jean-Luc Picard. It was pretty funny...I was wandering throughout the office showing everyone my Star Trek poster, and my supervisor came over and said, "Jennifer, you mean we've spent all of this time talking for hours and hours together, and we never talked about Star Trek!?!" In my humble opinion, all of my coworkers went a bit overboard with saying goodbye to me and giving me hugs. I was trying to explain that it's not really goodbye, as my new office is right across the street and I will be over where they are on a fairly regular basis. But, whatever.
Then, at some point, I went across the street to see the layout of my new office, and one of the guys over there intercepted me with a quiz on my knowledge of Robbin Williams. That was rather amusing. My new office is okay, it doesn't have the wonderful fifth floor view of downtown of my old space, it doesn't even have a window, but it's decently big with loads of cubbords. It does have terrible lighting, however, so this weekend I'm going to get a couple lamps along with some snazzy decorative office organizer dealies. I'm also pretty excited because I was approved to get an upgrade to my computer so that I can work in InDesign - - it's been a big experience in persuasive argumentation to convince the higher-ups that Word is not a satisfactory program to work in.
In other news, I've been having considerable time management issues. This past week, I had to go on a number of really long road trips, which has been a big barrier for me in being able to accomplish non-work things. Last night, we were coming home from a big meeting in McCall and got stuck in a LONG line of traffice from an incredibly grueseome traffic accident. We had to wait in the rain while the life flight helicopter came in, and I think hunting season must have just started because we were surrounded by all of these huge trucks carrying dead animals, and the whole process seemed to take forever. When the road opened and we were able to continue on, I was quite disturbed as we drove by the scene of the accident. Traffic accidents really worry me.