Important things - I turned in my first MBA application last Friday!! 1 down, 4 to go and I'm almost halfway through #2, I should have it mostly done by the middle of next week I think.
In a related story except actually not, I've been wanting a set of drawers for my cubicle since I started. I began to develop a weird jealousy complex towards all my co-workers who have drawers and spent hours daydreaming about what I would use my drawers for were I to magically acquire some (I also don't have a nifty panel to cover my topmost shelf. Everyone else has one, so they can easily hide their shelf-messes, whereas mine is exposed for everyone to see so I have to keep it super tidy).
Anyways, last month one of the guys from our planning department left to take another position. He had two sets of drawers in his cube and ever since he left, I've been secretly coveting them. Since I don't really know what the protocol is for yoinking other people's furniture, though, I just left them there and would gaze at them longingly every time I walked past.
Last night at around 5pm, almost everyone had gone home, and I was reaching desperation mode with marketing samples spread out all over my desk so that I barely have any room left. It was time. I needed some damn drawers. So I marched down the hall past customer service and over to the now-empty cube and pulled the drawers out from under the desk. As I tried to pick them up, I realized they were much heavier than I originally thought. There was no way I could carry them back to my desk - I would have to come up with a better plan.
I remembered then how my friend Ben and I had been joking around about having rolling chair-iot races at work. This would basically involve pushing or pulling another person around in a rolly-chair and having races...dangerous? Yes. Fun? Obviously. Smart? Maybe not so much. Anyways, I thought if you could push a person in a rolly chair, why not drawers?
With a considerable ammount of effort, I managed to use my knee as leverage to get the drawers onto the chair. I felt pretty accomplished at that point, especially since I managed to do all of this while wearing high heels and dress pants. Nobody saw me except customer service...and they're used to seeing me do weird things...so that's probably best. Now my marketing samples have a home and my desk is infinitely more organized. Yay :)
The best part of all this is that the drawers were not entirely empty when I opened them. Inside the top drawer were these trinkets: a pair of scissors, some staples, white-out tape, and two keys. Keys to where??? Whose keys are they? Am I even supposed to have them???? I sort of hope not...I mean, nobody's needed them for a month so nobody could be missing them right??
Actually I'll probably hand them over to head of planning. But it's fun to dream.
So this morning I have a growing bruise on my knee and a set of keys...and most importantly, drawers. Yay.
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