Sorry I have been abscent as of late. I moved and with work - blah. Anywya here I am again.

So today our HR department decided to bring in a chriopracter/nutritionist to give a little talk. It was amazing the ignorance of my fellow coworkers regarding nutrition. Astounding really. Anyway I went up to him after and told him I was thinking of becoming vegan. He told me to do a colon cleanse before I do in order for nutrients to better be absorbed. I was like - clenase? As in fasting. Hummm, that hunk of cheese is looking mighty tasty right about now...

I take yoga on Saturday mornings at my local gym. It is really fun as the teacher is Dutch/French/German - I can't figure her accent out. But she isn't like a hippie yoga type - she is more fierce postures type (no endless sun salutations in this class). So these is always the lone male in class. This guy had on white shorts. not basketball shorts - but runners shorts. As we were doing head stand and eagle pose - you could pretty much see ALL of his eagle. It reminded me of the episode of "Arrested Development" when Tobias took a picture of his junk and the military thought it was the landscape where Osama was hiding. George Micheal recognized it because Uncle Tobias used to wear jean cut offs and climb into the top bunk. Hysterical.

We have a temp in this week helping us sort through files for the audit prep. I few months ago I bought a coffee cup saying "Office Godess" and put it in the cabinet for people to use as a trofey mug when they did a good job. Yes, I am an awesome co worker. So I just walked past the temp's cube and saw him (yes a dude) drinking from the cup. I had to not snicker. It was so classic. Wish I had a camera. I should point out this temp is wearing MC Hammer pants, tight lycra top and a gold chain. Apparently his interpretation of buisness casual is taken with poetic license...

THis really dumb admin associate at work decided to decorate the reception area. It pretty much loooked like a short retard with no taste did it. Becasue that is who was in charge. THe poor recptionist who couldn't be nicer, has to look at these hideous clocks and wall plaques all day. Anyway one of the more senior admins came by one day and was horrified. We have a big board meeting coming up and you just can't have an office looking this stupid. So we now have 4 clocks (she had staggered them on the wall with plaques of which country and time zone) - and the clocks I should describe as something we all made in shop class for mothers day in 6th grade. Fake wood, gold hands, big plastic numbers. Not kidding. The clocks also cost $60 EACH from the staples catalog. Even after we all told her to go to target and buy some. So the admin with taste came in and found this beautiful oil painting (has to be larget to cover up the fact when we took down the clocks and time indicator plaques there are HUGE holes in the wall now). It is back to normal and very pretty.

I made the suggestion of everyone gets to wear the clocks a la Flavor Flav - around our necks. How great would that be? We can beat box in meetings and wear pimp suits and crowns. Another co worker suggested giving the board members their own clock with the time zone where they are from on it to "represent". Genius. Pure genius.

The book by Paul Theroux. He was in Peace Corps Malawi in the laste 60's. He almost had the project kicked out of the country because of some political alignments and stupid mistakes. He has this love hate relationship with the ex-patriot culture in the world. He is one but he also despises it. I like the travel writters who walk in the grey of life. So there are two parts to his short story book I found interesting.

1) Paul comes from a large family. 9 brothers and sisters, and his parents have just as many siblings. I was laughing as his interpretation of masses of children and adults is so much like my family. It is NOT commune living - it more of being piled on top of each other with a common unity rather then just sharing jobs/materical goods. This is what large families are - you have no privacy but you belong to something special. You have adults you call Aunt and Uncle who are not blood relatives - they just are adults who have merged into the crowd. It was a great biographical look and anyone with goobs of cousins would really appriciate.

2) Comfort travel. He talks about how people see travel as relaxation and a vacation. He doens't - he sees it as a way to explore, be challanged and evolve. And how what people today consider "travel" is really an extension of their lives back home just someplace else. So true. I have a friend who takes carrabiean cruises and thinks she has "travelled". Yeah you know a giant floating buffett and canned "culture" is ravel! But to each their own. Paul does make a good point -- it is dangerous when these people think they have "travelled" when in reality they just are living their current life in another location.