Princess Fix IT

Our Corporate office is located directly across the street but it seems worlds away when I walk through its vacant halls. I rarely have to go over there, but when I do, I feel as if I?ve been run through a decontamination shower and my personality has been sucked from my soul.

It?s a very sterile, cold atmosphere. A trip to Corporate means a stark reminder of what work environments lay waiting for me out there once my tenure is over in Video Game Country. The business casual attire, that uncomfortable aura surrounding teams of uptight number crunchers and that ever unpleasant stench of Corporate America; it just sends chills down my spine.

During Executive Reviews, I get a small taste of the corporate culture I so desperately try to avoid. The Marketing Zombies come waltzing into town and they bring all the Almighty Managers with them. The women?s bathroom is soon overpowered with cheap smelling but expensive perfume; the halls are filled with people who don?t acknowledge my existence and then there are the demanding men who think I?m a secretary and couldn?t possibly perform the most basic of IT tasks.

At least during Reviews, I am comforted at the thought that these well dressed invaders will soon move onto their next victim, but with the suits across the street? There is no escape from that.

So what's my point you ask? Well, I?m convinced email, fax machines and other technological conveniences are simply the invention of simple folk trying to avoid being in the presence of their Corporate counterparts.
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A few miscellaneous bits for your consumption, dear reader?

Monster House tonight: I only have one thing to say about this episode and that is: Best build team EVER! Steph rocks!

Why did not one, not two, not even three, but at least six people today feel the need to make fun of my black, beat up, ancient Chuck Taylor?s with the brown leather laces? At least I got one compliment (thanks, woman).

Finally, I decided this weekend that I wanna be really rich. Aside from wanting a house, a home theater that rivals any movie palace and these rims for my truck, I think I?ll probably want more at some point, so why not be rich, right? Just one problem?the gig I will enjoy doing for the rest of my life, well, it just ain?t that lucrative folks. Man, I hope these stock options pay off.