Kind of dull

Things have been pretty slow around here. A little work news, though: we (the business folks) may try to stage our own little "power play" in our building. As you may remember, the CIS folks have moved to the fancy new building, but "they" are running behind on getting the business division's side of the building finished. Hence, we're still over here in the old building. Not only are we still in the old building, but we're sort of scattered about in the old building. My boss mentioned that she's a bit lonely down in the main office suite all by herself and she even suggested that the rest of us should move down there with her. Problem was, no one wanted to move to a new office and then have to move again in a few months when they do get our new building ready. Now, though, we've reconsidered.

First, there's kind of a general fear that our part of the new building may not be ready for quite some time and we may be stuck over here longer than anyone anticipated. Further, the folks who will eventually be the new tenants of our old building have been sniffing around, taking measurements, and talking about all the changes they plan to implement. We don't mind the new folks moving in (if we get to move to our new building), but we don't want them to move in and get the "nicer" offices and then have us end up stuck in our little "closets" for another year or so. Further, if we are going to be over here for a good while now, it just seems to make more sense to have us (the business faculty) all grouped together rather than have us interspersed among people from all different departments. Right? Anyway, that's our thinking.

As a result of these new developments, we've decided that we will all move down to the main office suite. The only (potential) problem is that my boss's boss says we shouldn't be surprised if someone "up the line" is unhappy with this action. Why? Well it may be that some of the "future" tenants have already made plans to come over here and snag the "nice" offices. Yeah, it's a petty thing, but as someone once said about academia, "The battles are so fierce because the stakes are so small!"

Who knows what will happen, but as things stand now, I may have a window by Friday afternoon. I'm sure you're all on the edges of your seats, waiting to see how this turns out. Fear not; I'll let you know.

In the meantime, there was a nice little piece in the CS Monitor today about how no one just "drops in" for a visit anymore. I had comments to make, but it's about time to go teach and I've got to brew some coffee.