It very quiet right now. Except for the strange and overdone conversation about celebrity baby names I overheard earlier, work has been light to non-existent today. Right now I am having trouble with my CD drive on my computer. First it was the flashdrive which caused me to break my flashdrive thingy and now I have lost info that no one will ever know about. Now my CD drive has been claiming that there is "no disk in drive" when there most certainly is.

So for now I'm sitting at my desk like a dummy wearing headphones with no music coming out! It's keeping my ears warm but then again this furnace called an office is keeping everything quite toasty.

I worry about the swan outside my window now that the pond is definitely frozen over. The sun glints off the ice like the sun glints off of a glass office building creating a glare that is quite excruciating on my computer screen. I guess I could take control of the window shade and get some shade, but where's the fun in that?

The advising people that sit around me have take it upon themselves to dismantle one of the "official" library cubicles, creating "pass-through" areas or windows for some of the more landlocked cubes. While I cheer their need for help and sunshine, isn't it a bit odd to hang windchimes where there is no wind and where chiming is probably frowned upon?

And on another note about sub-par chocolate, we had yet another chocolate fountain at work yesterday. This was for the office building "Holiday" whatever you call it. I detest these fountains. Not only do they expose people to chocolate that is less than good, I think somewhere someone has dipped their entire forearm into one of these things and the thought of that just drives me to cringe. Plus, they are a huge bottleneck that backs up a line that should be moving much faster. People dip everything under the sun under one of these fonts of choc. I think I even saw someone dip chocolate under the chocolate. Is this overkill?