Meme-Me

[llcoolvad]

10 things that make me happy during my daily grind
(Meme courtesy of cicadabug)

1. Diet Coke and the endless supply of ice in the fridges all over the building
   
2. Livejournal, BoingBoing, kottke, metafilter, making light, all the other bloggy things I read to keep me occupied
   
3. My commute — 15 minutes, seven of them through woods
   
4. My iPod, and now that it's baseball season again, Gameday Audio, so I never have to miss a game
   
5. Some of my coworkers, including the bestest cube-mate ever! (Other pictures of my office in that set, although the pictures of my cube are old)
   
6. The nap room; sometimes I take break there. There's a bed, and a clock-radio, and you can turn the lights OFF. Nice.
   
7. Having two monitors — makes me feel VERY tech
   
8. My ottoman that I bought especially for work and keep under my desk. Every day I love it more. Happy legs!
   
9. I have a wall of windows behind me. Of course I keep the blinds down a lot of the time due to glare, but I like having them anyway
   
10. My laptop, even with previously mentioned issues. It's a Thinkpad T41 and has pretty good battery life and is cute

Um, I guess it also makes me happy that I do a really good job all day long and am a department resource, yadda yadda?

Comments

[livingdeb.livejournal.com]

My co-workers are all appreciative and nice and fun, so that helps.

I know what you mean about the postcards making you unhappy sometimes. I recently told a co-worker that it was unfair of her to wear such summery clothes because it made me wish I was somewhere besides work!

I forgot to mention flexible bathroom breaks. I've had jobs where you get a fifteen-minute break (or lunch) every two hours and that's it. It's nice that sometimes you can use the bathroom twice in one hour if necessary, and you don't even have to ask anyone!

And I also forgot to mention that sometimes my job requires walking to a different building. I really like that--it feels like goofing off during paid time.