One of the other fellows noticed that I was working with my shades closed today and asked if my midwestern background made me averse to natural light in the office. Instead, it's that I'd been used to having an office window that looked out through this black grate* and didn't get much natural light, so it's not something I'm used to thinking about. I had the shades open the rest of the day.
Where is my office? Well, I'm a sociology Ph.D. doing a policy fellowship connected to public health and is funded by a foundation whose mandate keeps it relatively focused on the United States. So, of course: my office is in the Center for Government and International Studies. It's a brand new building, so new that there is still construction going on and far from everyone has moved in. (Indeed, so new I can't find a page for it to link to on the web.)
* Granted, I chose the grate view, to be closer to certain other things in the labyrinthine social science building in Madison. And, ultimately, I like my office there well enough, so I don't want to come across as unhappy at all about it.
13 comments:
totally jealous... My office has three doors in it. While it is larger than my co-IT workers' offices, I have much less actual useable space. Your office ROCKS!!!!
Your officemate will surely have more on his mind than your habits. Glad to see the pictures and to read about the realties of Harvard and Cambridge as you now begin to experience them. Good luck!
Such beautiful photos!
Anon 9:05am: Well, the problem I worry about is more that my habits have a way of intruding upon the other things people have on their mind, because I move around a lot while working.
I don't know you personally, but DO know Harvard. That you move around a lot doesn't really sound too, um— what? unique? Forget about it.
However, you WILL keep your own uniqueness, I'm pretty sure. And good there are chair rails (or whatever they're called) to keep you from rolling back through a window, as you seem ,quite charmingly, to loll back, judging from the welcome photos.
The people who meet you now do not know the 40 extra pounds you lost; For all we know, this is the one and only Jeremy. So be it.
I know, I know. Just enjoy the fellowship, ol' boy. Anon 9:05
I only know of a couple of offices (those beloning to certain professors who direct Centers and such) in the Social Science Bldg in Madison that even APPEAR to be as big your HALF of that office in Cambridge.
Those spread-eagle poses say 'look at me!'. But you seem to have more to share than that, So jet's hear it, please.
Wow, those are great windows. But aren't you worried about being distracted by all the goings-on outside?
And might I add that you are looking positively svelte.
Eric
It;s only room, that office. A space —
Jeremy's in Cambridge. amongst his peers. What happens next?
Yeahhhh?!
Yeah. Officemate doesn't know you're newly svelte.
So what else is new in Cambridge?
coy
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