Welcome

Welcome to my blog. I've entitled it The Office Diaries, but don't take the words too literally. Although I will periodically write about my "cube jockey" existence, stuck between the walls of a corporate office 5 days a week, and the other office dwellers that make me laugh (most of the time I laugh at them, not with them), this blog will generally be much more broad. The term Office Diaries just refers to the fact that I often write while at work and I hope it appeals to others who are confined to an office environment, or maybe just a job/situation that they don't enjoy. Basically, I hope this blog provides you some sort of escape, however brief, from a situation you don't want to be in. You can expect to read about sports, entertainment, art, politics and anything else that I feel like rambling on about, because isn't that really what blogs are for, rambling? Plus, I have some intriguing/borderline crazy friends that will no doubt provide some fresh text when you all start threatening to jump out the window if I don't shut up.

We humans love to think that others care about what we have to say, which quite often is a totally false assumption. I'm of the opinion that even your closest friends aren't listening to you half the time. You only think they are because you aren't really paying attention to them not listening. Funny behavior isn't it? The beauty of a blog is that you can naively assume that everyone that reads it actually agrees with you and finds you interesting, when in reality they may just be bored stiff and thinking about the emergence of the color pink in mens' closets across America. I know I certainly get to that point when I'm in the office sometimes. You know those days at work when the clock seems like it's frozen at 10 a.m. and you've already visited your favorite websites so many times that you could recite every piece of content like it came from your own "dome?" Unfortunately, those days come too often for me.

You see, I'm a creative soul and my job is anything but creative. My title says "Sales Manager", but my day-to-day responsibilities amount to little more than cleaning up other people's messes (aren't adults supposed to handle their own messes??) and doing tasks that VP's and other executives delegate (read: are too lazy and/or arrogant to do). Now don't get me wrong, if I was an executive I would delegate 'till the cows came home, but that's beside the point. I just don't feel any sort of passion for what I do. Some people can wake up everyday and go to a job that doesn't light their "fire", but I, fine folks, can not. It's just not in my genetic make up to do anything that I don't want to do for an extended period, especially when it requires 50-60 hours a week of my precious time. Why others can die a slow death in an office, doing a job that they don't like is a mystery to me. But hey, to each their own. As far as I'm concerned, they are just lowering the odds of me doing something great because with each office zombie stands someone that won't be competing with me for greatness. Suckers.

The real reason I'm now an aspiring blogger extraordinaire is two fold: 1. I write (almost always sarcastically) in a journal everyday, often times about funny/quirky things I see in the office and the outside world. 2. Why not publish the less dark side of my journal entires (trust me, you don't want to see how nutty I can be) in blog form so other people who find themselves stuck in an office, doing work for a boss they don't like and a company they don't believe in will have yet another site to waste time on? Quite simply, the idea makes sense to me and I hope it does for you. And if it doesn't, I'll still pretend it does, because like I said, I don't have to look at you not paying attention to me.