A Stanza or Seven on the Evils of Office Life

[chaletian]

Here is a pome, composed by me on 23 August 2005.


I sat in my office, my eyes on the door
And lazily dangled my feet o’er the floor
The typing was finished, no work left had I
But the evils of boredom poked me in the eye

How could I pass the long hours till five
When hospitals frown on those who jazz and jive?
Books were verboten, the TV forbid
Play games and the manager would blow his lid

With cries of relief I turned to the ‘puter
And hoped that my boredom would become much minuter
But alas, ‘lack and woe, our dear LJ was spurned
Into adult content all our posts had been turned!

A tragedy! Infamy! Calumny! Worse –
A blot so decisive, ‘twas almost a curse
I resorted to picking up paper and pen
And scribbling these verses, but o! what then?

I telephoned home and found X, R and K
Were all merrily larking and leaping at play
The Tweenies in Welsh? Would such fineness ever
Be heard echoing through these cold corridors clever?

I fear I must answer that question a negative
Less fortunate people there never did live
All stuck in their cubicles, typing away
And longing that someday they might come to play.

It isn’t yet two, and hours till five I must bridge
As I wait vainly for some work to enter my pidge
But then, ah the fun, all the japes, joys and laughs
As off we all wander to taste the Giraffe!

Comments

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[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Which reminds me, I'm taking thyme_slimy to Giraffe, probably, for her birthday lunch (you are exactly a week older than she is!) - she's been before but isn't sure about "restaurants that combine all sorts of different cuisines"

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Bugger, computer slipped and not only posted that comment before it was finished, but also typed "hich" on my sticky notepad on the Windows sidebar..... the mind boggles.

So AS I was saying, what's good to eat at Giraffe? I know you go there fairly frequently, but I've not been before, and I think thyme_slimy only had a burger when she went.

[chaletian.livejournal.com]

To be honest, I usually go with Katie and we are cheapskates and get the Giraffe-time menu (actually, I get that whoever I go with, unless it's a parental buying... *g*). It's all really nice, tbh, though some of the stuff can be quite spicy, but the menu's usually clear. And the smoothies are to *die* for. If you're going at lunch time, there's the brunch menu as well, which is vee, vee yummy (blueberry pancakes ftw!!).

[mrs-redboots.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[katie__pillar.livejournal.com]

I remember that being written! You were embracing the old blog at that point, I think. I had just finished my dissertation and bought R & X cake and jelly respectively for to celebrate. Happy times.

Oh, that was also the day we had to leap off the train in Richmond because they were checking tickets and you didn't have one. Lol.