The Aerie
Ah, so here I sit. My new client is a major national organization which rushed to hire me, skipping over even the necessity of an interview. With that kind of urgency you know what that means.
I'm doing nothing.
I was asked to bring my own laptop, there is no computer. My desk phone won't be in until Friday. My putative boss -- the person who hired me at least -- has managed to shoehorn a half hour today at 3:30 to actually meet me. If I were a younger man I would be fretting about this, but I guess I'm old and cynical because I think it's just great.
I actually found the lunchroom today (the room downstairs that my co-consultant and I found yesterday is about 1/10th the size of this place). The room not only had a pot of hot fresh decaf on, but it's stocked with decaffeinated Lipton's tea. It's like they built the place just for me.
So I'm sitting here reading websites -- once again Lileks has an obtuse rant about how incomprehensible it is that people can disagree with him -- listening to the Indigo Girls, eating a chocolate muffin and drinking decaf. Two weeks ago I was digesting my own stomach lining wondering where if I had a future.
Maybe they'll cancel my contract tomorrow. Maybe they'll get their act together and pile me up with tons of work. Who knows. But for today I have a job, some prospects, a snack, and every second they hand me two pennies to browse the web.
I think I'll enjoy it while it lasts.
Posted by Albatross at April 6, 2004 10:30 AM