Work, Glorious Work

For those of you who do not know, I am a copy cataloger in a huge academic library. Not the most exciting of jobs, I can assure you. It's essentially data entry with a prettier title. But, the benefits are that my schedule is Monday through Friday with no nights or weekends. I also get a huge tuition break for working at the university. I also don't have to deal with the public (in this case, students), and sometimes that is a wonderful thing. And sometimes I wonder why in the world I plan to go into public libraries in my professional life, but to really delve into that question will require a serious head exam :). But I digress...

So, this is my cube (oh yeah, before this job, I had a beautiful office, which I didn't know to appreciate, because I'd never been in a cube before... I appreciate it now!!!):
And this is me in my cube:

So, to avoid going totally insane, we find things to make the day fun and interesting... My co-worker William, aka Skippy-John Jones (he sits in the cube across from me) likes to try to sneak up on me:

And so I respond by mooning him...











With the TROLL, people... With the TROLL.

Haha... Okay, I hope you're laughing. Seriously, we do have fun, even in a pretty "cold" environment where we are surrounded by cubes. And the troll and the "Skippy-John Jones" mask came from various ALA (American Library Association) conferences to which the faculty members go twice a year. They bring back the prizes and put them out on the table and they are "up for grabs." Why William wanted that mask is a question for the ages (and this answer, too, probably requires a serious head exam). But one day he got my attention so I'd look at him, and he was sitting there wearing the mask. And I have to say, I just busted out laughing. It was kinda freaky at first. So, I warned him that one day, I'd take a picture of him like that and then one day, he'd come across it on the Internet somewhere. And since I brought my camera to work the other day to pull some pictures off of it, I'm making good on that promise... But William's a good sport... He let me take the picture.

So, now you know the lengths to which we must go to have fun here among the cubes...

Oh, and I really do "moon" him with the troll.