It's been busy at work lately. Lots of projects floating around. So I've been staying back a lot, eating dinner at the office and then catching a taxi home at around 9 or 10. The company pays for both the dinner and the taxi, so it's not so bad.
It started snowing this afternoon and it's still snowing now at 10:30pm. The floaty, soft kind. It was so nice out that after dinner (we ordered from a sushi place), a few of us -- Jessi, Brinky (or Christina) and I -- had a snowball fight on the sidewalk with the clean, fresh snow. It was so fun. Brinky fell over! We each got hit in the face. My sheepskin mittens were completely wet by the time we were back inside and back at work. I hope we have more of this nice snow...
So I caught a taxi home and when I got inside my building, there was a huge brown box with my name on it. I saw it was from the MoMA in New York and immediately wondered what it could be. And who it was from. I managed to get it into the crappy old lift and into my apartment. I opened it up and saw it was from Janice! A housewarming gift! A lamp called the "Miss K". Look at it! It's so cool and way too nice for my current little dump. But it'll
look great sitting on my desk, next to the potted orchid and the
African violets.
Now I have to admit that I don't keep a lot of "stuff" anymore. It's kind of a "travel light through life" philosophy that I keep. So in Sydney and Taipei I've culled my material things down to the bare minimum and the most sentimental. (Except for clothes, which goes without saying.) But already I know this lamp will be one of the special things I'll have with me always, wherever I end up. Definitely, definitely not a penguin gift.
Thank you, Jan :)
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