Good God, it's freezing in here. I'm wearing not only the cardigan I keep at work
but also the blanket that normally lives in my truck. This isn't the first time
it's come in to work with me, but it is the first time in this company. Until I
went out and got the blanket, my fingers were going numb, then they did the pins-
and-needles thing while I was standing out there in 100+ degrees, waiting for my
core temp to climb out of the polar zone. The odd thing is, there's no reason for
it to be this cold and it usually isn't. Yesterday, I was comfortable wearing a
short skirt; today I'm freezing in jeans. In other Artic offices I've lived in,
the cooling systems had been designed to deal with banks of large heat-generating
computers that have now been replaced with small cards that have negligible
thermal outputs. Here, in the other hand, my end of the building is just offices,
so that's not it.
I'm hoping to begin telecommuting occasionally,
but my boss is being a bit restrictive about it -- she'll let me, but I'll have to
jump through a few hoops first, which I wouldn't mind so much if she hadn't been
working from home a lot herself lately.
Repeat the mantra: off all
next week, off all next week, off all next week....free time to do whatever I
want. (Except sleep in, what with another regatta only two weeks after this one.)
Still, I'm looking forward to that free time.