So it’s my last day at this temp job, for an organization working out of the law school. It’s been a neat placement, but I’ve ended up without an office. I’ve been abandoned to my task of combining the vague instructions I’ve recieved with the papers on this table and on the screen to come up with something reasonably meaningful.
So here I am, alone in a deserted library, with a fancy laptop.
Deserted, that is, until I leave the laptop unattended, at which point it will certainly be nicked by the closest law student. (Or so I have been repeatedly warned.)
My brain is slowly ceasing to function. I need sugar, or caffeine, or some combination thereof. But I cannot leave my post. Besides, since it’s summer holidays, the coffee shop downstairs closes at 2:30 (!!!) and I’ve missed that chance. The next closest coffee/sugar/anything edible shop is about five minutes away. I mean, really ! A Starbucks on every corner, except for the one occupied by CANADA’S LARGEST UNIVERSITY !!! not that I’m bitter.
I’m going away for the weekend, so I am accompanied by all my stuff, including a bag of booze, a huuuge overnight bag, and the giant stack of papers I’m using in the work that I am (trying to) do. I suppose I could pack it all up and take it down the street with me, but it’s boiling outside and I’m in office clothes and I’m already pretty sticky from rushing around during my lunch hour. Plus I wouldn’t have a free hand to carry the coffee. I would be better off mainlining it instead.
Maybe I’ll just curl up under the table and have a nap. Yah, that’s it ! I’ll use the laptop as a pillow.
Nice laptop …
If any of you are in the area, could you please bring me a coffee? Or something? There are some Krispy Kremes in the office down the hall, I can tell you how to get there. You can even have one. But not until you bring me mine.
… Anyone?
