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26 April 2002 (Friday): yaaaaaa

Things are going slightly better today. Well, not so much that as my attitude is a lot less bitter and self-pitying. It's all no big deal, anyway...all work-related stuff plus some minor tiffs with people I'm close to. I think that's the real reason I didn't share details here: because no one would have much sympathy if they knew what all the hoopla was really about.

It's Bring Your Kids To Work Day here at the office. One colleague brought his nine-year-old daughter, another his five-year-old boy -- they've been running around doing that simultaneously-delighting-and-terrorizing thing that kids do in staid corporate settings. The girl took over my whiteboard and wrote NEVER GIVE UP! in big blue letters. Thanks, I told her, I actually needed that.

posted by enjelani @ 05:13 PM PST

Replies: 2 comments

We do need that occasionally... the kid's message was uplifting in a way that contrasts what was once written on all the whiteboards in the undergraduate labs at Cal.

Someone had written, "All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy" in red ink, over and over again in different patterns and spacings. It must have taken the guy at least an hour and several pints of concentrated caffeine to do that, considering the kind of writer's cramp it must have created.

posted by m. mellow @ 29 04 2002 02:17 PM PST

peter started coloring his white-board in with red pen one day at work. when it was a solid red block, he resigned.

posted by eric @ 29 04 2002 02:54 PM PST