VCBH: show me your cubicle

L Williams is back in action with another magical blog hop, this time asking for a pictorial tour of your office or cubicle.

Yep I can do that! I work in non-profit fundraising doing all kinds of awesome analytical projects (data mining and predictive modeling etc) that nobody ever uses or understands. It's, uh, an uphill battle lol. But math can be its own reward, right? ...Right?!?

i'm clearly on a panorama kick. and yes that's 2 coffee mugs bc i go hard.

Anyway, my dept is quiet and somewhat lowly on the totem pole. We're just the analysts chugging through data and pushing out papers. Ya know the type. Every organization has weirdos like us. So we're mostly scattered around in various (admittedly nice) cubicles and dark offices.

also i may or may not spend more time gardening than working

But somehow I won the lottery when promoted to a senior position (which gets an office): this perimeter office has a large south-facing window overlooking a wooded area filled with deer and finches and blue jays and the occasional raptor (of the avian variety - no dinosaurs in baltimore to my knowledge!).

except for this cutie who keeps me company

The only problem? The office is noticeably narrower than the other perimeter offices to accommodate a noisy stairwell. So all the directors turned up their noses at it. Whatevs, it doesn't bother me and I moved in with glee.

my mom gave me these locally done pieces depicting typical Baltimore scenes. left side is row houses on 34th in Hampden (hon!) and right side is the Stieff Silver building

I've stuffed the place full to the gills - mostly with piles of papers (bc filing is for the birds) and notepads and books and folders and post-its... but also just kinda... stuff haha. And plants. Omg so many plants.

I'm not a gardener and don't really have plants in my apartment bc... cats... But somehow my collection in the office has grown beyond all reason. It's predominantly african violets tho bc they're low maintenance, have pleasant blossoms, and are stupid easy to propagate (which I do, prolifically - there's another leaf growing roots in the blue mug on the shelf pictured above).

my IT guy sent me this when we were troubleshooting how to upgrade my computer to handle the bigger file sizes and processing needs of my job. it's an excel joke lol... 

Also, it's maybe hard to tell from the first pano pic - but my computer situation is kinda intense. Dual monitors (so awesome!) - but also dual computers. Both monitors are connected to both computers, and the computers share one keyboard and one mouse. I toggle between the two with a KVM switch that I don't fully understand (pro tip: make friends with your IT people!).

One computer has WAY more processing power and memory, so that one handles all my heavy lifting, whereas the other one still connects to the same network drives so I can keep on working on other stuff if the rocket ship computer (yes I call it that) is busy processing.

plus bonus kittens. obviously. always kittens. 

So yea, I basically just fill the space with lots of pretty things and green things to give me something to gaze blankly at when the endless spreadsheets make my eyes bleed.