Scenes From The Cube

It's been awhile since I took you on a tour of my cubicle. Here are a few highlights of how I decorate it in order to make 40 hours fly by with reasonable enjoyment:


Perhaps this week isn't a good week to plug anything that is University of Michigan sports related but what the hay. Barbie was once an integral part of the tailgating decor but a few years ago, she got the boot. Since it's blasphemous to throw out Barbie, I adopted her and bring her out in cube world during football season. I'm not sure what the creature is next to her. They were passed out at work where word quickly spread that if you pull down his arms, they will rip off. I'm guessing he is some sort of stress ball. That's a bit boring for me. Instead, I gave him devil horns and a goatee. Later, I stuck a pin that I found into his head. A voodoo doll of sorts, I guess now. Anyone have a headache that feels like someone is sticking a pin in your head?

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Next to the weird voodoo doll stress reliever is an african violet I received in February. I'm not a big indoor plant person so my care of this thing is rather minimal but yet, of the four of us who received one, mine is the one blooming most often. I empty my water bottle into it every Friday afternoon. I can only guess that african violets love my backwash. Perhaps I should bottle it and sell it in the garden section of Lowe's.

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During one of my twice a year flights, I noticed that the airport has a GM gift shop. While browsing, I found a very accurate replica of my vehicle (the only thing missing is the cute, two toned pin stripe that someone at the next door Cadillac dealer drew on it). Inside, is one of my old miniature E.T. dolls. This particular doll is from the scene where E.T. discovers flannel shirts and canned beer (E.T. must've been a North Carolinian in his previous life). Perhaps it's just me but I find E.T. driving my car with an open intoxicant somewhat amusing still after five years.

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Last but not least:

This is the view out of the window that I sit next to. What is that building in the middle of the picture? That, my friends, is the infamous Wendy's restaurant. The scene to many a blog entry in the past. As a matter of fact, I got an impromptu invite for lunch there today and I saw the Wendy's guy attending the fries. He was much quieter than usual. For someone that just won a small claims court case and is getting $300 of his $500 bucks back from an ex-girlfriend, I can only guess that his dourness was football related.