Quadruple win at work today

[annathepiper]

Some nifty things happened at work today:

1. Coworker #1 (hi jgstewart) loaned me his copy of cmpriest's Fathom, which didn't work for him, and which I am 99.99% likely to buy off of him once I'm done reading it. I was going to get it anyway eventually, and now is as good a time as any!
   
   
2. Coworker #2 saw The Forest of Hands and Teeth sitting next to me at my workstation and was attracted by the cover. I said, "It's a zombie novel!" He said, "How do you put those two words together?" I snickered and explained, since I'd just finished reading it at lunch, that it was a post-zombie-apocalypse novel about this young girl who wants to find out what lies beyond her village that's cut off from the rest of the world by a forest full of the undead. (More on this in another post!)
   
   
3. Coworker #3, upon overhearing the previous conversation, immediately came over and said "hey, did you read World War Z?" I affirmed, enthusiastically, that I had. I'm totally going to get me a rep for lovin' me some zombies at this place. I'm good with this.
   
   
4. I was able to take an emergency nap around 2 or so when my brain stopped functioning and demanded I become horizontal. My lead was totally cool with me doing that, so I went and curled up in the chair in the nearest phone room for about half an hour, setting an alarm on my cell phone. I never actually fell asleep since every time I made the slightest movement, I set off the motion sensor on the light in the room. But even sitting there curled up in near-darkness for about half an hour was enough to let me recharge. I stayed half an hour late, of course. And I really, really appreciate that my current workplace is awesome enough that I can do that.

All in all a pretty good day, even if I I was fighting to ramp back up to speed. But I have things to do and I think I'll be a little bit more up to speed tomorrow. Then there's a whole weekend to rest up (modulo Cinematic Titanic on Saturday night yay).

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Now all you gotta do is get'em into some JoCo zombie lovin'... or get'em into Great Big Sea, and then throw Zombie Taylor at'em and watch the heads get all 'splody....

But yes, yon workplace is made of awesome and win. Many and happy may your days be there.

[annathepiper]

You are laboring, sir, under the impression that these folks wouldn't already know who Jonathan Coulton is. This is a company full of geeks. I'm pretty damn sure they already know. ;)

And I assure you the words "Great Big Sea" were prominent in the obligatory "intro to me" email that got sent around. Though no disrespect to Zombie Taylor and all, I'd much rather plug the actual General Taylor. I do love me some zombies, but I love Sean McCann more. :)

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you've found a great job. Wish I had half as much fun at work as you seem to.

PS Don't suppose there's any way I could get on a list for game beta testers, is there?

[annathepiper]

I am informed that if you'd be willing to take a research survey, you can go here. (Let me know if you have any issues with that link?)

This should let you participate in alpha game play for the games we develop in-house and maybe offer feedback on early designs as well. Also, incentives are usually offered for your time. :)

[starsongky.livejournal.com]

It says they'll call me if they have a match to my profile, thanks!!

[annathepiper]

You're welcome!