The most common path I take at work leads me past the cubicle of the Feng Shui Lady. I don't think I've seen a cube lovelier than hers. It's very odd, but in the midst of other cubes overflowing with paper, paper, paper, this cubicle is an oasis of calm and order.
The outside walls at TRU provide a continuous row of broad, tall windows. I'm lucky enough to have a cube at the end of the row, as does FS Lady. The metal sills are about five inches wide and on the sills closest to her, she has two plants growing at each window section. In her cubicle, there are three thriving green plants.
She was out yesterday, so I took a second to stand at her cube entryway. She has her PC facing toward the windows, which face west. Her monitor was on what looked like four reams of paper, wrapped in green paper. There was a mirror behind her desk, on the cube wall. I wanted to camp out there. It was so...serene.
My first two months at TRU were a nightmare. There was paper everywhere. Despite the mess I live in at home, I like my workplace to be neat and it bothered me that paper was flung in indiscriminate mounds. As I've developed a process for dealing with the more tedious aspects of my job, the mounds have disappeared. In their place are neat stacks with reminder notes on them. The most important one is labeled and DO NOT TOUCH is writ large over the cover sheet. It's not just for the cleaning people (who actually do dust desks), it's for me.
It's such a relief to have things in order. But I think what has helped most of all is a map from an old Frommer's guide to Paris. I have it just to the left of the monitor, where from moment to moment, I can rest my eyes on the Tuileries or the Obelisque, which is in a circle in front of the American Embassy and the Hotel Crillon. It's funny how just seeing the names on paper brings back welcome little memories of Paris.
My own little cubby doesn't enjoy the same serenity as the Feng Shui Lady's but it's getting better.
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