My office world

Let me introduce you to my office. Here is where I have sat for the last year and a half with my new best friend Hazel. Hazel is not featured in this photo, but she sits on the right, me on the left. You like how clean my desk is? I work hard to keep it so nice.

It is here where I draft web stories and fact sheets and edit project closures. I have another 7.5 months of this until...who knows what. Maybe I will be forced into early retirement, again. So far I have had a pattern of two years working, two years retirement, two years working, two years retirement. Perhaps not the best strategy for long term financial security.

You see there on the left my wall calendars for the past two years. I keep last year's because it was a year of serious travel and I want to be reminded that it is all behind me. I love looking at my 2010 calendar and seeing nothing there to take me away from my home-cave. I really need to work on my dependance on the home-cave.

You will also see that both Hazel and I have matching long gray sweaters draped over our office chairs. Yup, we are totally twins. I was born on March 6, she on March 8. Even our wedding anniversaries are a day apart. But she is British and calls lunch, dinner and dinner, tea and dessert, pudding and cafeteria, canteen and cookies, biscuits and chips, crisps and seven thirty, half seven and she gets adorably upset whenever I inadvertently use the word fanny in any context. She is great.

We also got an intern yesterday from Brazil. He will be here for 6 months and reaches for his pen when Hazel tells him to bring his chair and tells us about the snow when we ask him about his flight. It will be a very interesting 6 months.