BITTERSWEET

Today is the last day in our old offices.  We spent a couple of hours yesterday doing “orientation” at the new firm.  Before very long, my eyes were glazing over and rolling back in my head from the sheer number of forms and information overload.  It’s all so VERY corporate over there!  They had us over for a taco lunch earlier this week to introduce us to the other 40 some odd (and I do mean odd) attorneys who presently work there.  Food was good and, really, they seem to be happy to have us despite many of them having to move their offices to make room for us on the 12th floor.  In the Employee Handbook there are a couple of pages regarding the dress code.  It’s really funny because there is a page for men and one for women and they remind me of paper doll cut outs because they are line drawings.  The styles are very 50′s (or mid-century as I understand it is now called) and straight from the Brooks Brothers catalog.  I have been concerned because it says, “no flip-flops.”  I tried to inquire once before but the conversation was interrupted and I never got an answer, so today I called Maria at the front desk and said, “I have a really important question!”  Then I asked her about flip-flops…..and to my great relief she said as long as they aren’t rubber like you’d wear in the shower, you are OK!  HOO.RAY!  I feel much better now.  AND, as if in celebration, I got a Sundance catalog email and a pair of sandals I’d been really jonesing after (of the flip flop variety) was marked down about $100 and they have my size!  Double HOO.RAY.

So now I need to pack up my office.  I spent yesterday unloading file cabinets and filling packing boxes.  Ugh.  Hard work and tiring.    Today should be some easier.  And, on the VERY PLUS side, I got my unused vacation pay out yesterday and it’s enough to buy a new Apple lap top!  Told you I needed a vacation!

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