Colleagues (original) (raw)
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August 24 2012, 00:36
Listens: thunder and rain outside
I had so much fun today.
First, a colleague came in with a vast pimple—a small boil, really—on his head. To my delight, he let me treat it, so I did the full business with cleaning it, extracting an impressive amount of pus and residue, extracting the core of the boil, and dressing the newly cleaned hole in his head. I do so love doing non-critical first aid. It fills my heart with warm and sanguinary glee.
Then I had a job interview with a guy in the Unix Engineering department of The Bank, where a vacancy has opened up. It's a small move from my current position, but it'd be a change, and a change would be good to let me learn some new stuff. I could use that.
Finally, we went to a bar in town to celebrate the departure of a colleague who's grown rather dear to me in his time at The Bank, but who is now leaving for a better job in a better country. We'll remain vaguely in touch, I'm sure, but, for all I know, we may never see each other again in the flesh, like, ever. Fingers crossed, and I fully intend to ransack his fridge as and when I may next be in Vancouver.
I ate so many well-marinaded chicken wings in the bar that every so often I burp a small, faintly bioluminescent nimbus of chickeny garlic fumes.
And now there's a simmeringly boisterous thunderstorm rumbling and cracking outside my open window, which of course is a practical guarantee of a happy mood.