Apparently it's a holiday of sorts, for the Christian types. I came in this morning to find a couple of pieces of celebratory candy on my desk. I don't eat candy, not really, not except for Dove dark chocolate, but it's a nice gesture.

Yesterday, Jason announced that he thought I should move my desk to be up in the cube-farm aisle next to management. (Currently I'm in the far back corner of the office. The only way to put more distance between myself and my coworkers would be to move me out of the office completely.)

I rejected the suggestion on account of the noise--management shouting and carrying on, a thing that interferes with my afternoon nap--none of which is true but which amused them all--but mostly I don't see the point in shifting myself and the four personal items I have left in the office to a new location. Why waste the time and energy on someone who's only here for another couple of weeks?

I'm not goofing off, you know. I blog for my co-workers' benefit. Someone told me this morning that if it wasn't for the sound of my keyboard, no one would even know I was here. The other afternoon, someone was shutting up the office and they turned off the lights! I had to holler at them. If I'd been writing a blog entry, that would never have happened.

Recently, I was chastised for posting such boring blog entries. Part of me is aggravated. (I know many people who frequently post boring blog entries. Do I take them to task? I do not.) Part of me is concerned. Oh, no! If I post boring entries, all four of you will stop reading? And then what will I do? I'll have to post whatever I want, any time I want, to amuse myself! That will be so different!

Anyhow. I can't make stuff up, you know. If there's no drama, there's no drama.

Yesterday I sent out quarterly performance reports to all the 'Nuts, showing them what's been happening with their campaigns this year. Predictably, today I'm facing an influx of emails from Stupid & Annoying 'Nuts, asking why things are more expensive than they were last year, why projects never implemented aren't working, and what's going on with accounts managed by someone else.

One location was urgent (and almost incoherent) in his request to "carbon copy" what MadBoy is doing.

First, I don't know what MadBoy is doing, because MadBoy is managing his own campaign. I handed him a very good campaign but have no idea what he's done to it in the last four months. He stooped to asking for help a few times (help that I did not give him), because it was running so poorly. This is not behavior I would personally want to model, but we're prohibited from talking about the 'Nuts to each other, so I can't tell the urgent guy.

Second, last month, MadBoy spent almost $900 to get three leads (not "jobs" - just "leads"), so I'm thinking that copying that performance is, you know, not such a lofty goal.

If my head explodes, you should sue these people because it will be their fault.

I'm looking forward to the weekend. It's amazing how the prospect of shopping, even just shopping for a single pair of shoes being paid for with money given to me by others, can cheer me up. It's a bid odd, because I'm not normally All About Shopping.