i’ve been lucky enough to experience another office move…it’s starting to become the norm.  i’m now back in the cube environment after some time out of cube-land.  i have mixed emotions.  overall, i like being in the trenches with everyone – and i get to learn who the hell these people are that i work with - there are hundreds of them and i only know about 30 after 4 months…i have a ways to go.  anyway, i do miss the office.  why?  privacy is a big one…but even bigger is that I have to deal with other people’s nonsense.  i shall explain my current irritation…

i now sit near a manager that feels the need to blast music on her portable boom box.  seriously, who has those anymore?!?  and she’s been around long enough to know better.  i’ve joked with her about using headphones…esp. after the first song that came on was “BEAT IT”.  if only there was a camera on me when the boom box was turned on and that song came on…i thought…”clearly this is a joke…a) no one would openly play music in this headphone-day-n-age and b) even if you were to play music in your cube, it definitely wouldn’t be ‘Beat It’.”  i was wrong.  after i joked about it the first time and then continued to joke about it when people would stop by to visit…AND i said “we’ll make sure to add some money to the 2010 marketing budget for headphones”…..she still didn’t get it.  WHY DOESN’T SHE GET IT!??!?!

this morning’s opener was “open arms”.  a few other samples from the day…“i would die for you”, “right here waiting”, “every rose has its thorn”, “cold november rain” …and WAY too much Journey.  i feel like i’m being over-taken by a 80/90’s slow song mix tape. 

i shall also mention that i have the hearing of a bat…often referred to as go-go-gadget ears…making it even worse bc i can’t block it out…even w/ my own headphones/music playing.  i’m not one to blast music into my headphones for two reasons…1) i don’t like loud music in my ears and 2) if i have to crank the tunes up so loud that i can’t hear when others show up to my desk – pet peeve.  so, i guess the solution is to have my headphones on and just enjoy the the background tunes at the same time...mmm...duel media.

seriously…as i’m finishing writing this…”it’s all coming back to me now” by good ol Celine Dion just came on.  someone just shoot me in my ears.