avalyn

Well, here I am back at the office, finally. Prior to this week I'd been working from home since August 31 -- the day I arrived in Nashville during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. And so right now I'm sitting in a $200 office chair on the 10th floor of Poydras Centre in downtown New Orleans, which is, as far as I can tell, devoid of any other people except for late-night janitors and a shoestring security staff.

I brought my laptop to work with me so I could fuck around on teh intarweb while I update my office workstation, which has gone unused since the day Katrina hit.

Here's a picture of my workstation/time-waster/desk/etc:



The screen on the left is the monitor for my Linux box, which is in the process of being upgraded to OpenSuSE 10, which hadn't been available at the time I last used this box. (I think it came out sometime in October.)

In the middle is my bottle o' Coke and a bag of Zapp's Salsa Santa Fe potato chips. To the right is my trusty laptop, an HP Pavilion ze2000.

To go along with all this is my new work schedule, which started this week: 9:00pm to 7:00am, Tuesday through Friday. Ugh. 10 hour days, not so good. But at least it gives me three-day weekends every week, which means I can waste even more of my life playing World of Warcraft than before.

Also (unrelatedly), you should go lavish Sophie with praise for her astounding beauty and debonair charm. You know, like, just because she's the bestest suicidegirl ever.

Anyway, work is completely deadsville tonight, so I'm going outside (onto the 11th floor balcony overlooking Lafayette Square, no less) to have a smoke or two whle I wait for OpenSuSE to finish installing.