Friday, November 18, 2005
CUBICLE CARE PACKAGE
I work in a cube and today is Friday…the day where the sleepless boot camp brutality takes its last task driven punch and sends me to the ropes for the weekend. I have a co-worker an awesome just turned 26-year-old girl named Connie whose birthday party was tonight. So on my way to the Caribou coffee house after work I was thinking of what gift I wanted to buy her. Then it came to me! I could make her a,
CUBICLE CARE PACKAGE
(Where do I get my ideas???) So I went into the Super Target in the Colorado Mills Mall and ventured into my scavenger hunt. The list of items I bought her, were as follows:
Rubik’s Cube
Ice cube tray
Sugar cubes
“Cuticle trimmer” which I taped a piece of paper with a “b” on it over the “t” changing the word to “Cubicle trimmer.”
Q-tips which I taped a piece of paper under the Q that read, “ube” Making the package’s title read, “Qube tips.”
Perhaps the gift is both better when seen and given to a fellow cube dweller. But I’m glad my brain juices were flowing and an original gag gift was given.
Here's a reply to a comment you posted over on my blog. I thought I'd add it here to help ensure you saw the answer to your question about the body of water thing.
Ben and Jerry's rocks. I used to be a Taco Bell fan. Perhaps I remember the 10 hours of sharp pain, the surgery, and the 30-day recovery period too well. Maybe there's forever an association with fast food and suffering hardwired in my brain. Oh well.
The love for juicy steak and other meaty dishes used to run high with me as well, so I appreciate those who hear the cry of the warrior. For me, a number of things happened. Robbins' book Diet for a New America helped me come up with at least seven very good reasons to move on.
The lake, ocean, or river thing. Keep in mind that I don't have any textbook, Internet article, or credentials to back this up. For all I know, this could be an urban legend sort of thing. You see, I was told about a personality/psychology test that asked four questions:
1. What's your favorite color?
2. What's your favorite animal?
3. What's your favorite body of water (puddle, lake, stream, ocean, river, etc.)?
4. You're in a room with white walls, floor and ceiling. There are no windows and no doors. How do you feel?
In addition to asking the four questions, the respondent is supposed to list three attributes of that favorite color, animal, body of water, and room experience.
The answers are supposed to indicate some sort of correspondence to these topics:
1. Color is what you think of yourself. The attributes describe qualities you deem important in yourself (or something like that).
2. Animal is supposed to represent your ideal mate.
3. Body of water is supposed to represent feelings about sex.
4. Represents your attitude toward your own death.
Typically, you ask each question and have the person add the three attributes. At the end, you tell them what each question describes.
While I can live with the correlations proposed in questions 1-3, I have trouble with 4.
In my mind, death is a transformative milestone in the process of life. It can be quite noble and beautiful. Every time I've experienced a being passing on, it is anything but a stark white room. That's not to say I seek it out or look forward to my own death, but I think that a white room is a trap whereas death is something more akin to freedom.
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