Current mood:

melancholy

A Short Move, But A Big One
After more than thirteen and a half years, I walked out of my old home office for the last time today. Okay, I'm being overly melodramatic - I didn't quit or get fired or anything. At the beginning of the year, I got transferred from my training job (and out of my old office) to a technical expert job in an office about five miles away; I didn't really have to deal with the change much up to now, because I was in the middle of a training assignment that meant I'd have to spend half a day every day in my old home office until it was done. Well, today, it was done. None of us made all of that fuss about it, really - a few promises to keep in touch, an couple of handshakes and hugs, and then it was out the door, return date unknown.

Now, at this point everyone reading this is probably saying, "Who cares? You didn't exprience anything traumatic. You moved a couple of miles down the road - get over it."  But the people in my old office have been such an important part of my life for such a long time that I can't imagine what it'll be like to go to work and be without them.   It's like moving away from your family to live on your own - you know that they'll be there if and when you need them, but you know that somehow that the realtionships you had with them will never be the same again. 

So, to all the gang at my old office: Thanks for everything, guys. Thanks for keeping me sane when the insanity of the job threatended to take me over the edge. Thanks for reminding me that there are more important things in life than today's accomplishment or today's disappointment. Thanks for being there to listen to me bitch, moan and complain, and thanks for being there to help me laugh, smile, and cheer.  Thanks, in short, for being my friends - and I hope that no matter where I am and you are, that's what we'll always be. I love every one of you. Take care.