no longer having to sit between Hiccup and Talks-to-himself! Ahhh, the peace! Every time Talks-to-himself walks by my desk, usually talking to himself, it reminds me how lucky I am not to have to deal with it all day every day. Oh joy. I’m now sitting next to a guy who coughs and clears his throath a lot, which used to annoy me. But, now that I know what sitting next to seriously annoying and ridiculously noisy people is really like, he is a pure blessing in comparison, and I rarely think about it at all.

I might be working more in the weekend section again soon, and I’m now sitting with the culture journalists, but I’m definitely planning to hold on to my new desk for dear life. If necessary, I’ll just have to explain it all to the weekend editor. And since I’m now on short term contracts again, working here and there, people hopefully won’t find it too strange that I’m not sitting with the people I actually work with. My fear is that they might need the desk for some other temp in the culture section, but well, hopefully they won’t. Plus, by sitting there, I make sure the culture editor sees me every day, and hopefully thinks of me when fun assigments comes along, such as concert reviews.