For Sale: Lakefront Office Property!

I am sitting here at my computer in my studio, listening to music loudly, and watching the lightning storm outside my window through the rain. I have rearranged my furniture into a much more pleasing configuration (better feng shui, maybe), there is a painting on the wall behind me whose progress I’m very happy with, a sleek black cat is curled up sleeping on the sofa next to me, and I am drinking a cold diet soda.

It doesn’t get much better than this. 🙂

What’s going to suck, though, is tomorrow morning when I go into work wearing rubber boots and jeans. Why would I do this, you ask? I got a call this afternoon telling me that our office, which is located in the basement of an older building, contains approximately 2″ of water on the floor. My computer is on the floor, as are a lot of my job jackets and god only knows what else that I have sitting on that floor, all of which is now most likely completely ruined. I think the computers, at least, are OK, as our very own Karen Field and Hillsman Jackson valiantly worked to move everything they could onto the desks before the water got too bad this afternoon. Thank god Karen went in to work to type up a paper and discovered the mess. I have no idea what to expect tomorrow. I don’t know where they’re going to put all of us while they rip up and replace the carpeting. The building’s jam-packed with people as it is.