I'm asking my parents for a new camera this christmas, although working for a Publisher, I won't be able to take pictures in my office...
Day 1 and 2 went fine. There are some setback, such as being stuck doing busy work for the first week. Everyone else is trying to get projects finished up before the week-long vacation (seriously, right?). Ironically, although I'm there specifically TO coordinate efforts of this nature, I'm also green, which means I have to learn all the programs and whatnot before I do anything fun. They're too busy to teach me to do things to help them to do less, to be perfectly clear.
My boss introduced me to the entire floor on the first day. It was a great thing to do, and I was flattered at how excited she was to have me there. Still, I hate shaking hands with people; It makes them instantly uncomfortable and me embarrassed. Today, an older man from a different floor spotted me in the lunch room and loudly proclaimed "Nice hand!" While holding out his own. De-fingered as well. Which, I'm sorry to say, creeps me out as much as it does a normie.* Some people would call such a gesture sweet or brave or something along those lines...but see, I was just more embarassed. Edging over towards mortified.
As for the picture above, I was going to go off on a tangent about how my crappy camera focused on the wall, not the flower, and the wall is symbolic of something hard and wall-like, and the flower is pretty and nice, etc., and how maybe I'm wall focused too, you get my point, and so on.
Really, I'm just hoping that my kids look normal, on the outside, tens and twos all around. That way people will at least have to get to know them a BIT before exposing a gaping hole of raw neurotic nerves. Nice hand INDEED.
*Did he expect delight? "Hey, great! Want to be cripple-hand friends forever? Look out world, look out hard!"
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