We have Microsoft Communicator at work, a form of work-approved IM between other coworkers. This has also served well as my outlet and break from work to keep me sane in the face of the daily grind insanities. However, it seems the people that I most often communicate with have seemed to dwindled....the Scoobies have dwindled down to Sam and I over the past year, J to the M left for Africa, and M and I had been outlets for each other since the day I started work, and last week Mario was officially gone. Luckily I recovered a roommate in the process and have Kels back to once again chat it up with, but unluckily for me last week, she was pretending to be Canadian to visit friends from Guinea. Which brought me to the realization that I find work days to be unbarable to get through without someone to talk to, namely someone I can relate to outside of my immediate coworkers.
This may be learned considering I've almost always had this in my long two and a half year career, so I really don't know any different... I'm pretty sure older generations that did not grow up chatting online don't feel this critical need. But then again, I don't roam the halls looking for unsuspecting people I can corner to show family photos to and share mundane stories about my curling adventures over the weekend, much like many of them do. Curling was excellent, FYI -BTW (that means by the way in our new age chat speak!).
So this could mean one of three things:
1) I need to make more friends that work at my company so we can chat
2) I need to stop wasting time chatting (which might make my head implode when I have no other outlet during the day)
3) Time to move! (But only if it's to NZ...)
I'd also like to take this moment while I have you captively pinned in a corner to share some family photos... this would be Loki dominating Waffles in a chokehold while laying on his head. That's my boy!
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