D'vorahDavida
Yetzirah

Cookies For The Lab Rats
Wed Dec 03 2003

I went back to the lab where I worked last summer for a little over 3 months. I had promised to come and visit and opened my big mouth about bringing cookies. So I baked a big batch of my mother’s butter cookies drowned in powdered sugar and took them with me.

They were all so happy to see me! (Um, maybe it was just the cookies...) I was kind of embarrassed to tell you the truth. They asked me what I had been doing and I told them about the NaNoWriMo novel writing adventure. One person wanted the web address and another guy was telling me he had been thinking about writing about his adventures hitch-hiking across Canada and the U.S. many years ago. It sort of confirmed the saying I have heard, that everyone has a book in them!

I thought I would just pop in and out, but I was there for an hour and a half! I sat in the break room and people came and went for their lunch hours and we visited. They all seem well and much more relaxed now that the inspection is over. It was a little tense there when I left which was about a month before the inspectors finally showed up.

My old work station is a mass of paper and notebooks piled high on either side of the computer and on TOP of it! I should take a picture some day. You would not believe it though, you would think I staged it!

But let me tell you, I was happy to be able to walk out of that place WAY sooner than 4:30 in the afternoon!

Now I have to clean up my kitchen, which is a cookie mess disaster area.



4 Comments
  • From:
    Bookworm (Legacy)
    On:
    Wed Dec 03 2003
    Sounds like you actually had fun there. ;-)
  • From:
    Becoming (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 04 2003
    What an especially nice visit. It's sort of like being a grand parent who can hand the kids back when they wet the diaper or get too whiny. I am sure they were glad to see you.

    On the aol home page, there was something about everyone have a story in them. Of course where I work we believe that too! And it is true. Writing is such a wonderful thing. I've been able to experience so many things through reading that I would never have a hope to experience in real life, and so many emotions too.

    I do not consider myself a writer, but I am an avid reader. It's a pleasure I need to make more time for in my life.
  • From:
    Pragmatist (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 04 2003
    It was probably the cookies.

    Oh, be nice! (I couldn't resist)(sorry)(hehheh)

    OH, I can believe your work station looks like a disaster now. You're not there to keep things in order. Did anyone say how the inspection went? Did they get high marks, or just pass, or what?

    Seeya at Tanya. Got any of those cookies left to share?

    Shalom
  • From:
    RealmOfRachel (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Dec 04 2003
    Aww no wonder they were happy to see you, anyone who comes through on a promise to bake cookies is someone to be treasured. It always feels good to walk out of an old work place knowing that it's your choice to go back, doesn't it?

    Hugs
    Rach