Cube with a View

You're going to have to excuse the excess of images of the chicken purse. She's become my constant companion--somewhere between a rubber stuffed animal and a useful accessory. So far, it has changed so many of my interactions in New York--I walk into a place to buy something and the salesperson/waiter/counter person just starts CRACKING UP. If that isn't a useful tool, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS.

I don't talk about the specifics of where I work or even my relationship to it because it's just not a SMART thing to do. A guy I work near said to me the other day, "Hey, I read your blog the other day--it's great!" This is why. In the exciting world of the internet, you can find ANYONE and EVERYONE and I have to think specifically what I would like my co-workers and my BOSS to discover. Discussing work on a blog is just DICEY. What I will say today, however, is that my relationship to a lot of jobs I've had in the past is the same one I had to boyfriend relationships in the past--I believed that no matter what, eventually it will end. Some may call this an attitude, others may call it a DYSFUNCTION (to which I say, Schlameal Schlamezel). I keep forgetting I'm not a TEMP anymore--that this is MY GIG as long as I want it.

A huge indicator of this attitude in my current job is that I hadn't done ANYTHING with the physical space. Basically, I have no windows and the surroundings are best described as OATMEAL, DULL WINTER LIGHT, and PUTTY. It finally hit me recently that I could feel a WHOLE LOT BETTER at work if I made the space my own. So on Monday I went to Purl Patchwork and bought the above fabric and hung it in its ENTIRETY on my putty colored wall. The effect was IMMEDIATE and EVERYONE seemed to respond to it. My cube mate, also an artist, who's home colors range from ORANGE to BLUE was ECSTATIC. We suddenly had ALL THESE IDEAS about what we wanted in our space. French posters! Flowers! Anything with color! I felt like we were both Annie singing "I think I'm gonna like it here."

Now when I walk in I feel more at home--or at least more ALIVE. If I can't have a window to the outside--at least I can have a view.