I had a really good day at work today. It's not because I was especially productive (although I did get some stuff done) or I really enjoyed what I was doing (although it wasn't so bad), but as the day was winding down, a couple other guys and I had ourselves an old-fashioned bitching session. Imagine any possible complaint you could conjure up, and then think about voicing it in a friendly, riled-up environment; wouldn't that be cool? That's pretty much what we did for an hour and a half. In fact, we got so into it, we were all at the office until 6:30. We almost peeled the wallpaper off of the walls with the vehemence of our bitching about tree sap (note: that was mostly me... why must it be so sticky?).
One pleasant discovery from that was that a lot of the ideas I have about work aren't just mine. Perhaps it's natural to feel a bit alienated in a big office setting, but sometimes I feel slightly apart from the people I work with. Part of this is also because a lot of my friends from work have since moved on, I suspect. Anyway, it was good to let it all out there with those guys and learn that I'm not the only one who thinks some of our processes are an unholy union of beast and man. I look forward to doing this more and more, until eventually, I spend all night and all day screaming about my 401k.
I saw an excellent movie last night: Stranger than Fiction. I'd kind of seen it once before, but I'd been drinking and I feel asleep halfway through. Surprisingly, staying both sober and awake greatly contributed to my enjoyment of the movie.
There's a certain sort of movie that I really enjoy, and its formula can be expressed as Surreal situation + quirky dialogue + good soundtrack = CWMP winner. I don't care about the details of the plot or the actors involved or even whether it makes any sense; just give me those three and I'll walk out happy. For proof that my formula will trump even common sense, I point to the fact that I actually enjoyed I Heart Huckabees, a movie which was complete gibberish.
(I don't know if it's just me, but I thought that Dustin Hoffman's character in Stranger than Fiction was pretty similar to his character in I Heart Huckabees, minus the goofy haircut. I really liked the part where he asks Will Ferrell, "Are you the king of anything?")
Posted by Cody at September 26, 2007 9:17 PM