I don't get many visitors at my desk. This is because, my little cubicle is in the most inaccessible corner of a separate room (with a door) on a floor below most of the employees. In fact, I can go days without seeing any of my former students or their bosses. These are the folks that actually do the work, so it's the greater portion of our little 2,000 seat facility. That being said, I was a bit startled when someone that I had never met walked up to my desk and asked if I was - name withheld -.
When I replied that I was, he asked me if I was excited about tomorrow. I tried to play it cool and act as if I knew perfectly well what he was talking about; imagining possible corporate initiatives that I might be overlooking, possible sports events, and checking to make sure that it wasn't a major holiday or worst of all - my birthday. Coming up completely blank (and without saying "errrr..") I replied, "what about tomorrow?
Tom said that he meant the movie the is coming out. Now I call him Tom because he has a very Magnum'esque Tom Selleck mustache; I don't know his real name. I had to think for a bit, but I was able to come up with H2G2 quick enough to avoid that awkward silence.
It seems that one of the trainers that I mentored has been ripping off some of my Sci-Fi team builders (i.e. list all the Star Trek captains you can in 120 seconds). To his credit - and possibly to make himself not look like a geek - he's been quoting me as the source for the fun and describing me as some sort of Sci-Fi / Fantasy encyclopedia. Although this is wildly inaccurate, it is apparently sticking with some of the participants since "Tom" is a new employee that heard about my geekness from a relative that was trained by the mentee that is using my stuff in his class.
Kevin Bacon - eat your heart out!
5 comments:
He probably figured you had an H2G2 countdown next to your HP countdown.
Being sought out for office Sci-Fi talk...sounds pretty prestigious.
yeah, about the same as being sought out for "supplies" in the bathroom!
Shouldn't this posting belong on your other blog? LOL!
I thought you might have a "touchy-feely" post about your "quality-daddy-daughter-day" at work! (Especially when Dirt put up a "fluff" posting for her readers!)
"It's ALL about balance", T says!
How can you reconcile the worlds of fire-starting frontier days with sci-fi? I've always had trouble deciding between genres, but perhaps you may have found a middle-way in the fire is magic path...
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