The air circulation in my new office is not very good. For the two days I've been there, I've used my special ugly office sweater* in the morning, and sweltered in the afternoon. Weirdly, this was also how it was at the job I left in 2006. I was just cold all the time at other jobs.
The reason I was always cold at my various places of employment is because I am inevitably seated directly under or just to the side of the air condition vent. Today I was pleased to think about how this new job was different in that respect. Then I craned my head all the way back and looked at the ceiling. Yep, I'm under the vent. It's gonna be a cold summer. (And winter, if like at my other jobs, the building blasts the heat so high that each office runs the air condition to counter balance the inferno. Yeah, energy efficiency at its finest.)
*At every job I've ever had, I've left a cardigan on the back of my chair in case I get cold. Since the sweater lives at the office, I don't want to waste a nice one, so I bring the ugliest sweater I own. This job's ugly office sweater is the one I obtained for free at this summer's BlogHer conference. Hideous, especially in navy & "Aztec gold."
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but it's so comfy, suzanne! just because you don't like charlie brown...
ReplyDeleteYou know, just because it is an office sweater doesn't mean it has to be hideous...or is that crazy to suggest?
ReplyDeleteIt's totally gotta be hideous. That's what makes it fun. Mar's right, though - it is comfy.
ReplyDeleteI keep a rather ugly grey blanket in my cube to wrap myself in when I get cold (which is all year 'round). The real key is to wear layers. I almost always wear a long-sleeved tee with a short-sleeved one over it and a hoodie as the outside layer.
ReplyDeleteWow! That is ugly:) Unfortunately,I don't think various layers of t-shirts, a hoodie and a blanket are generally acceptable attire at an office where you are expected to dress professionally.
ReplyDeleteI have the same philosophy, Suz. Why wear my new Land's End jacket in class all day and get it gooked up with food and who knows what? I just wear my slightly ratty one all day, much to the chagrin of one student who wanted to know if that was the only jacket I had because I always wear it. What a little prick!!
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