i work with a significant number of coffee fiends. i appreciate this about my work place right up until this happens. i part from my desk to do a pace around the first floor and refresh my coffee to find the pot is empty. this happens quite frequently actually. fortunately, the coffee maker is quick and it gives me the chance to again pace around rather than staring into my computer screen for a few moments. i just went to refill my cup while waiting for reports to export (which is taking an inordinate amount of time today) to find the familiar empty pot waiting for me. so i made a new one thinking nothing of it, went back poured myself a mug and found that it is lukewarm. it would appear that one of our lovely and new interns turned the burner off on the coffee maker. (i only blame the intern because she was the last one i saw go in the kitchen and in the seven months i've been here, i've never seen the coffee maker get turned off. i told you, fiends.) now i'm far to lazy to do anything about the current temperature of my coffee so i'm just going to pretend it's fine and enjoy it.
michigan is a tricky mofo. every year, we get this random burst of not shitty weather in february, where things go from frigid and horrible to above freezing with blasts of sunshine. and for anyone who has ever experienced a michigan winter, that first sign of sunlight is like seeing the sunshine for the first time. suddenly your mood is improved and you no longer feel like you need to scream profanities at the guy who just cut you off in traffic. i was telling my friend dave last week (who is from michigan but now resides in california and no longer shares in my plight) that i couldn't remember the last time it was sunny so the two days we had in a row were blowing my mind. in a further attempt to trick my mind into believing that winter is almost over, i have been opening my blinds at work to let the sun in, turning my space heater all the way up and taking off my shoes under my desk. you know, just to pretend that it is nearly summer or something.
i'm almost entirely certain that neither of these things are going to be the topic of my blog today. while i'm at rambling about random thoughts strolling through my mind i suppose i could say something about how excited i am for a dress i bought online yesterday to get delivered but that would just turn into a thing about what i don't like about shopping online (the waiting, for the record. i like the instant gratification of buying something then having it.) so i work in detroit, right and i am not really one of those people who are all about the city. i mean, it's fine, i'd probably like it a lot better if my car wasn't recently broken into or if the building next to my office wasn't broken into last week. but i'm not one of those young people who are obsessed with detroit coming back and being a part of that revolution. i root for detroit's success and support those who have made it their charge but i just can't care as much as others do. sorry detroit but you are a mess. and like other messes in my life, i've often found it's best to let you do your own thing and i'll do my own thing.
for some reason, there has been this charge to build a statue of robocop in the city. yeah. robocop. i'm not entirely certain why but a group of people managed to raise $50,000 in like six days to privately fund the building of this statue. i'm not sure how big it is supposed to be, why this makes sense or what message it's supposed to be conveying but i am pretty sure that it's stupid. the people who raised that money so quickly should consider using their ability and their apparent concern for the city of detroit to do something helpful, like maybe put some of that money into buying new books for the struggling detroit public schools. you know what, probably not. it's probably smarter to build a robot statue. i mean really, nothing says "take detroit seriously" like a statue of a 80s movie robot.
it would seem that i'm ADD today and have a bunch of random things to rant about. my apologies for a lack of focus. it's been a rough week so far so it seems that all i can do is complain.
from the girl who just wants it to be friday evening already.
until next time...
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