Making room for my only office decoration
I had a couple of shelves installed on the wall of my edit suite (aka tiny office) at work, which let me clear a bunch of crap off the desk surface.
The upside, along with less of a sense of chaos, is that I have room again to put up one of my favorite photos, taped to a piece of cardboard to keep it from curling (not visible in this photo are Lucy and Carrie, who were back at the hotel feeling sick – they joined us later at Shedd Aquarium.).
It reminds me that when I threatened to turn 30 (just you try and stop me!), I had friends more than willing to hop on a train to Chicago with me for a weekend of mayhem without any real structure or certainty to what we were doing.
Of course, we’ve made it an annual event where we’ve incorporated the birthdays of other friends, and where I proposed to my lovely wife, and those have been wonderful experiences with new friends. It feels like a “family vacation”, without the bickering ;). I’ll never forget that first time, though.
