With coffee in hand and a smile on my face

Monday Jul 18th 2005

This week marks the last days of me working at my current job. I called out sick today (oh yes, I’m very sick, cough cough choke gag wheeze sputter). Terrible thing, this is. I may be sick the rest of the week.

Right now, somewhere in Connecticut, there is a room full of people taking computer support calls from mostly angry customers. Just about all the people working in that room are aggravated, egdy, irritable and just plain miserable. The rest are “comfortable” where they are, succumbing to the numbness of being just another number at a big company.

I am far away from all that.

I am sitting here, at home, in a properly air conditioned room, smoking a cigarette, my laptop in front of me. I have my coffee and I’m wearing a t-shirt and jeans. There’s not a phone headset in sight. I doubt the phone will ring more than once or twice today. The only sound I hear is the air conditioner’s fan running. To my right, I can look out the window and see beautiful trees full of green with a calm breeze gently moving the leaves.

I am calm, at peace and at ease - and I will enjoy every single second of it.

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