At my last fulltime gig I had an office girlfriend….a MARRIED office girlfriend. Actually I had several of them over the couple of years I served my time there. But I’ve moved on and my office girlfriend is gone. But while we were together, it was wonderful. We sat together at lunch meetings and served on committees together. We snuck out for ice cream cones on insane days when the temptation of looking out the window at the bay on a sunny warm day was too much for us. We were there for each other. Oh no, wait. I see what you’re thinking! Get your mind out of the gutter. We kept each other sane while all around us, assholes reigned. That’s what office girl and boyfriends do for each other.
And while I no longer have that job, and the insanity around us that made the relationship necessary, I miss my office girlfriends. The insanity surrounding me has moved from that nice back corner office to the web and project locations that I now call home. Different insanities, but still.
So the obvious solution was to find a new office girlfriend. But without a regular office, that has proven a bit of a challenge. There’s Alison the bartender, but I’m not sure there’s enough give and take there to qualify for insanity relief. I think I need a higher return on my tip investment for that to qualify.
And then there’s the girls from the old office. Now that I don’t work there, the options are a bit more open. But that seems a little like a step back in the office girlfriend arena, though it might have positive RL consequences.
But then it came to me. Since my new office is the net, that’s where I should be looking. I need a web girlfriend. Applications are available, but for now I’m circling the wagons around Alaska Dorene–smart, pretty, and just got her first novel published. So I either grab her for my new web girlfriend or be insanely jealous. Click on the link above and you can order her book–Midnight Blue Noon–directly from her blog through Amazon. My copy is now on order (unless she reads this and cancels my order…shhhhhhh). I’ll let you know how all this works out.
