In which Rolanni has a short day but a merry one

[rolanni]

Arrived at work amidst gentle snow; wandered around a bit before I located the building that HR lives in, filled out papers, walked in the snow over to new digs and made myself known to those folks who happened to be about. Spent the morning on a tour of the increasingly snow-covered campus, meeting many pleasant people whose names I will no doubt need to be reminded of again, and finding out that various necessary things couldn't happen because I Wasn't in the System Yet. At noon, conditions were bad enough to justify going home, so I called kinzel, who heroically drove across the river to retrieve me.

At home, we shared lunch, after which kinzel unfortunately had to deal with a Computer Event. I retired to my office to fill out even more job-related forms (remember how computers were going to make us free of the tyranny of paper?), then did some writing, finished reading Carnival by matociquala, and scrubbled cat bellies.

It is not, as I write this, snowing. The weatherbeans are still promising ice on the overnight, which I could do without, thanks. Tomorrow is forecast to be partly cloudy and colder than it has been, but not out of line for the season.

And so it goes.

There's a life-size marble lion on the ground floor of the building I work in. At first, I thought he was sleeping. Then I saw the spear broken off in his side...

Comments

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

(remember how computers were going to make us free of the tyranny of paper?),

ROFLMAO.

*ahem*

There's a life-size marble lion on the ground floor of the building I work in. At first, I thought he was sleeping. Then I saw the spear broken off in his side...

Please learn the story behind it.

[malkingrey.livejournal.com]

If it's this lion (http://www.mainememory.net/bin/Detail?ln=12782), it's a replica of the Lion of Lucerne in Switzerland, and is a memorial to college alumni killed in the Civil War. (The original Lion of Lucerne is a memorial to the Swiss guards who died defending Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI from the mob that attacked the Tuileries in 1792.)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I was gonna mention the Lion of Lucerne, but (for a change) read the already-entered comments first...

[keristor.livejournal.com]

Ah, the "paperless office". A bit like "wireless" ("Why do they call it wireless, it's got thousands of them inside!").

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Are you going to be able to get the spear out and heal the lion when it gets turned back from stone? I'd check out both the story of Androcles and the Animal Medicine section of the library if I were you!