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Last night I rode my bike home from work, then turned right around and left to walk to Laney's apartment to meet her there, then walk with her down to Pacific Place, to go see the one movie we had on our agenda this week:
The Killer's Game
It really wasn't very good. We both knew to expect this—it's
score on MetaCritic is 37—but, we knew what
kind of movie it was and thought it might be entertaining anyway. And, it kind of was; I had a good enough time for most of it, when people weren't uttering utterly supid lines. The one sliver of hope we had for it was that the MetaScore was higher than it had been for
Borderlands (26). I gave
Borderlands a C-minus and I gave
The Killer's Game a C-plus, so it was indeed perceptibly better. Just not by a huge margin.
We walked together as far as Broadway back home, and then I walked the next six blocks to my building on Pine. Shobhit had added rice to his leftover green bean and corn dish, and I fried a frozen paratha to have with it as I then went to the bedroom to write the review.
After that, we just had time to watch this week's
Only Murders in the Building before it was time for me to get ready for bed.
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Gabby is back to work this week after a two-week vacation to Greece and Italy with her husband and her mom. Wednesdays are the only day of the week she regularly comes into the office, so that is when we schedule our in-person team meetings every week. Except for some reason Amy worked from home today, so she called in via Teams.
I only mention all this because it was our first chance to talk about
last Friday's huge news as a team, that we will re-open a scaled-down versio of the Downtown store and then fill the rest of the space as our new office location. I was frantically texting Gabby as soon as I got the news, but now we could actuall discuss it in person.
One of the biggest things is that, in Merchandising, Benny and I are the only two who work in-office five days a week. I get the feeling Benny could hardly give a shit either way; he's pretty laid back about just about anything. I really want to retain my own space, though, and although Dave already said I probably can when I asked about it in our follow-up "Team Huddle" for Merchandising on Friday after the all-Office meeting, Gabby has been pretty gung-ho in stressing she is advocating for this for me.
Virtually everyone else will be dealing with "hotel desks," just connecting their laptop to whatever desk and dock is available when they come in. To be fair, and this just occurred to me, I tend to be in earlier than most anyway, so I would likely generally get the desk I want all the time. But, as I noted in the meeting today, "I have too much shit I don't want to get rid of!"
We've basically got another entire year for this to get ironed out. I'm sure it will be fine. Famous last words? Ha! Realistically, probably not. I have a feeling I'll get what I want. I usually do.
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[posted 12:30 pm]
