Work is releasing me early!

So I bring some paperwork by one of the PIs that I support. It needs to be back dated to EOM August 07. He takes one look at it and goes, "Can't I sign it earlier, I was on vacation that day". Its that sort of attention to detail that I appreciate.

edit PIs = Primary Investigators ie: Boss of the Projects but not my hierarchy bosses.

One of my co-workers brought in cookies this week. Home-made cookies. You know, the kind that don't have to be the size of your hand and so loaded with butter they stain the napkin with grease gourmet overkill... HOME MADE goodness! Some were molasses and others were pumpkin all were less then the size of half a golf ball, nice and tiny. There ( Read more... )

OFS (Office of Financial Services) is changing its name to SPA (Sponsored Programs Administration). Yes I can get used to this. Its fairly straight forward but I'm going to have to explain it to all the people I support that its just the same, only the name has changed. And keep explaining it for the next three years...

The sunny box of landscaping at work has confused plants. I see the early bulbs sending up shoots. If the weather remains above freezing within two weeks we will have our spring blooms. Croci, Daffodils or Hyacinths. The bets are on...

OK, seven types of tea in the communal space and five are decaf. I get the hint already.

One of my co-workers has a green thumb and brought in a harvest from her autumn-bearing raspberry and blackberry rickets.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

My work sent everyone an "Employee Movie Outing" message because they show free movies on some Sundays. But this message was caught by the mandatory spam filter. So the President's message shows up on the spam report... What a way to start a Thursday.

Happy Autumn!

OK, the hospital next door had a suspicious box alert called in. Bomb squad cleared the area, the T and buses and all car traffic was re-routed. The police wouldn't let me walk up Huntington Ave but if I went down the side street and up an alley I could walk around the barrier and get into work. So silly.

"No Boom today, maybe Boom tomorrow."

Work has released a warning that we have to reduce power consumption for the second day in the row. Being in the Longwood Medical Area we share the power grid with several Hospitals. When it is hot and steamy the City/State/Power Company caps our usage so the Hospitals will have enough. If it gets bad enough they will shut us down fully. Its ( Read more... )