10/25/2012: AVAYA Wireless Headset

The Avaya wireless headset... one of the most hated of my things. Why? Because if I'm using it it means I'm on another effing conference call about such exciting topics as potential compliance issues with HAFA supplemental directive 12.04 implementation or procedural updates and change control requirements to comply with NSS guidelines. These conference calls can go on for hours and accomplish next to nothing. They make me think I may be dead and in hell. It's why I'm jealous of the people on Revolution... they never have to be on a conference call.

10/19/2012: Pen Cup (Work Edition)

It's a cup. On my desk at work. With pens in it. I call it pen cup (work edition).

Not to be confused with: Pen Cup

7/16/2012: Calendar

This calendar hangs on my wall at work. I use it so I know what day it is at work and how long it is until Friday. (Just four more days!) Was a promo item from one of the temp agencies I sometimes use for contracted employees. There's some sort of sports facts on it to tie into a "winning team" theme.

3/4/2012: Three Hole Punch

3/2/2012: Dwight Bobble Head

2/14/2012: Valentine's Candy

Got this box of Valentine's candy at work, somebody bought some for everyone, left them on people's desks. Each box had a different word or phrase on it - LUV ME, BE MINE, HUGZ, that kind of thing. Like those chalk hearts but not nearly as gross. My box said "DIVA." Hopefully my getting that was random chance. I'd like to think that if asked to describe me in one word, the word "diva" would not come to anybody's mind. In fact I'd like to think that if asked to describe me in 100 individual words, the word "diva" still would never come to anybody's mind.

1/26/2012: Ridiculously Oversized Lunch Box

This is the ridiculously oversized lunch box I use when I take my lunch to work, which I try to do most days. My coworkers will often mock the size of my lunch box with comments like "Hungry enough Mike?" or "How much are you planning to eat today!" It's not full, but I needed something bigger to fit the longer boxes of the frozen meals I sometimes take. Actually it's a small cooler, designed to set a 6-pack in the bottom with room on top. And though I'm often tempted, I haven't ever actually taken a 6-pack to work. Yet.

1/24/2012: Stapler

OK so technically this isn't my stapler it belongs to Wells but it's on my desk at work and I said, I don't care if they lay me off either, because I told, I told Bill that if they move my desk one more time, then, then I'm, I'm quitting, I'm going to quit. And, and I told Don too, because they've moved my desk four times already this year, and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were merry, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire...

1/20/2012: Insulated Travel Cup

This is my second cup of coffee in the morning. My first cup of coffee, as I'm sitting around in the morning thinking "Fuck I really don't fucking want to go to fucking work fuck fuck FUCK FUCK FUCK" and having breakfast, is in a real coffee cup, like my Empire Strikes Back coffee cup. Then I pour a cup into one of my insulated travel cups (I have three just like this, two brown and one blue) for the commute to work and the long trek in from the parking lot. About 30 minutes or so after arriving at work I use it for my third cup. Then my fourth a little later. And often a fifth if I'm finidng it difficult to make it through the afternoon and remain awake at my desk.

Now that I'm writing that... I drink a LOT of coffee. I'm also posting a lot about coffee related items. Maybe I have a problem.

SIDENOTE: This is also the same cup Castle brings Beckett her coffee in when he arrives at the station in the morning. My coffee cup is famous!