6 posts tagged “office”

Actually it was lucky I took these photos on Wednesday as I ended up being home from work sick yesterday (had a migraine from not sleeping for several nights because it was so hot).  It is now Friday and I am off to the hairdresser soon to get my hair tidied up.  The weather has also cooled down since then so I am no longer wearing my sandals to the office. 

Self portrait back to work

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Self portrait summer toes

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Someone must have known how unhappy we all were at being back in the office this week.  This was in the staff kitchen earlier today.  Very nice it was too. 

Chocolate fairy

ABC Green at Work

http://www.abc.net.au/greenatwork/

Council House Two is quite possibly the eco-office block of the future. Taking many of its design principles from nature, it consumes only 15% of the energy of a regular building and about 30% of the water. Take a guided tour of CH2 with Catalyst. …more

This is a great site from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation with all sorts of handy (and amusing) ways of being environmentally friendly in the workplace and at home.   The Green Guru Q & As are worth a look.  There are also calculators and other tools you can use to calculate your emmissions savings and that type of thing.  Remember a lot of these ideas save money and your health as well. 

We just had a surprise evacuation drill before lunch.  On my old floor, the warden, who sat near me, used to tip a few of us off that a drill was planned so we could just happen to be downstairs having coffee at the time.  No such luck today.  I work on the 18th floor and we had to pretend that the lifts weren't working and walk down the stairs.  We knew we were getting close to the bottom by the overwhelming smell of urine in the stair well as the alcove where the fire exit is located is also home to a number of homeless men.  All in a day's work!

Ugly building

My daughter and her friends have their choir concert next week.  They are rehearsing somewhere near my office and the plan with a three hour break between final rehearsals and the actual performance.  The teachers supervising this activity offered to take the kids to McDonalds for "dinner" during this time or we could pick the children up from rehearsals ourselves as long as we had them back at the concert venue in time.  I figured my daughter would be so tired after a whole day of rehearsals, and with a late night of singing to follow, that McDonalds with loads of other kids would really not be a good idea (besides which I don't really consider it proper food - more an unhealthy snack).  I said I would pick her up and take her back to my office for a toasted sandwich and a rest and offered to do the same for her friends whose parents don't work in the city.   I wasn't sure how many takers I would get but it seems my daughter's friends all think a toasted sandwich in my office kitchen way more exciting than a trip to the golden arches!  Who'd have thought?

Ugly building

Building entrance