Movin’ On Up

Work today could have been considered rather unproductive and useless; the AC hasn’t been working properly for two days now, and having 80 extra kids in the building doesn’t help the situation, power in the back half of the building went out at about 2:00 and in trying to fix that problem, our computer server and phone system had to be shut down at 3:00. What can one do without a cool working environment, access to the internet, hard drives and phones? Nothing, absolutely nothing.

The day would have been a total bust if it weren’t for two things. On a minor note, I scored a free lunch at a yummy Thai restaurant courtesy of our executive director. Even though I was looking forward to eating the homemade guacamole I brought for lunch, it was nice to escape our sauna of an office and it never hurts to make nice with the boss people. On a much bigger note, though, I found out that I will in fact be getting that promotion I alluded to in an earlier post. It won’t happen until August, but it includes a title change (Development Associate), pay increase (maybe I will get around to buying some book shelves, after all), and a departure from the never ending ringing phone (hallelujah!).

To celebrate, since nothing was working, my soon-to-be-new boss and I went to Happy Hour at our favorite local bar (there are very few decent after work hang outs in the same neighborhood as the office, but luckily we have this place). We arrived a little after 3:00, our ED and one of our board members who was supposed to meet with Rebecca anyway, joined us and we hung out and enjoyed our beer and the air conditioning until close to 8:00.

Why yes, it was a very productive day at work, indeed. Not that I want every day to be like this, but it was a welcomed change. Onward and upward!