Governor

Well...I survived the all staff meeting on Wednesday. The meeting started off with this guy (who runs the meeting) talking about how the former Governor of New Jersey is here today and all of this random stuff and then he says my name. !?!? So, I am a. thinking this guy is a complete and total nut, and b. wondering what the hell to say once I get up in front of all these people. I decide it's best to play along and I say it's great to be here and being the former Governor I know nothing about architecture so it is going to be a real challenge...etc. It then dawns on me what he is talking about when someone made a comment about the EPA. How was I supposed to know that Christine Todd Whitman was the former Governor of New Jersey? I don't think I was alone in not knowing this as the majority of people looked as confused as I felt. No serious questions other than where my favorite spot is on the Jersey shore and if the vesting at Callison is still 6 years. Apparently I got off easy. I am not so sure. Now people are calling me Governor. I guess there are worse things to be called. Like President.

It seems that there was a bit of a coffee pot mix-up on Wednesday morning. Instead of there being 2 pots of regular and 1 pot of decaf in the West kitchen, there were 2 pots of decaf and 1 pot of regular. Now this is an acceptable e-mail to send to the entire firm seeing that 2 pots of decaf at 8:30 in the morning (or ever really) is useless. But then for someone to reply to ALL saying that 2 pots of regular are a must: one for him and one for the other guy, was a bit over the top. And THEN, for a third person to reply to all saying to "Make it 3!" was just absurd. Seriously people. Nobody really needs to know how much company coffee you drink.

Overall, it has been a good first week at the new job. The lights were going up on the trees at the Harbor Steps on my way in this morning which will make my walk to the bus that much better tonight. I think the Harbor Steps are great. Not sure about that "pi" sculpture at the base though. It's not growing on me yet. But it's only been a week.....