Did it rain yesterday? I was only vaguely aware. It was dark
and threatening as I walked into the office but I beat the rain. People who
came in after me got soaked but I didn’t notice the rain outside. By the time I
left work, the blacktop was dry.
The reason I’m so out of it regarding meteorology is that my
office does not have a window. The only windows nearby are those in people’s
offices so I have to go out of my way to see what’s going on outside. I don’t
often go out for lunch so I mostly spend my eight hours with nothing to look
at. As a result, my skin has that healthy fluorescent glow.
During the week, I mostly experience the weather as updated
information online. The real world is that close to me and I just can’t see it.
This can be positive or negative.
The negative is that I often miss beautiful summer days as I
toil away in my cave. I can walk outside and it might have been a beautiful day
but I haven’t seen it. I also miss my thunderstorms and usually can barely hear
the thunder outside. Sometimes I do try to get out at lunch just so I have some
sense of the outside world. It also helps to have that work from home day once
a week. I find I do get more done and am more serene at work when I can actually
open a window or see the sun. Some people “work from home” when they work from
home but I actually work from home.
There are actually some positives to not seeing the weather.
For the most part, I am isolated from the annual winter freak-out whenever the
first snowflake falls. I don’t have to watch people pressed up against the
window in wonderment, as if they are people from the Sudan who have never seen
snow or ice. I also don’t have to listen to people break down in hysterics over
it being “BAD OUT.” I just get my work done and go home. Someday I will lift my
head up from my desk and leave the office and a blizzard will have fallen while
I was working unawares. I will then be trapped at work … forever.
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