Guess what?! I just sent out MY proposal. For the first time, I was in charge of a proposal. At the time it was dreadful. I was so stressed that everything would be wrong with it. Now that it's out the door it feels great. I actually accomplished something! It cracks me up that in college I thought I was excellent at proposal writing/editing. HA! This year has really given me a run for my money and I'm learning what it means to be an editing professional.
This is the cover of my baby I worked on.
It was just itty-bitty, but the process felt like giving birth to a truck.
Just a half-incher. But I did it and I am so proud of myself! I can do hard things (sometimes)!
I figured while I was here, I should show you around my office space.
This is my computer. I've turned into a stick note-aholic. They work though!
This is one of my cupboards. I love that little machine! Chomps through tons and tons of paper at once to make perfect three-hole punches. I even lock it up at night so no one takes it from me. :)
You know how people have a junk drawer? I have a junk cupboard...dried mashed potatos, salt, binders, sticky paper, anti-bac wipes? Let's put them all together in the same cupboard, okay? Not such a good idea. It's really embarassing when it's inspection time...
This is my phone...can you believe I work for a technical company? I swear this guy was in use before I was born! But, it's mine. 4105, that's me.
I just about had a heart attach when I was a new hire and they brought me this list and told me I would need to memorize it and get to know everyone on it. It's our phone directory for our building. It hasn't been as bad as I thought. I'm about 3/4 through it.
This is a nice touch from the previous tenant. Those words were written in permanent marker and won't come off. Who does that?! We learn in preschool not to do that! Apparently someone's teacher didn't help them out with that one. It's nice for when we're planning the structure of a proposal, or for motivating quotes, or weight loss goals....
I hate this. This is our "branding color scheme." These are the only colors we're allowed to use. It's so confining!
This definately wasn't my idea, but I can tell you whose it was...
I break the rule all the time. I'm in the print gally more than my actual office!
These are our tables where we put stacks and stacks and stacks of proposal copies until it's time to ship them out. We have to lock the room when we leave. Top secret stuff, those WIC banking proposals! I don't know who would steal them...if I didn't have to read them, I for sure wouldn't. But, be my guest!
This is our heavy duty color printer, affectionately named (by my coworker Anita) "Papa Bear." Why? Because it's a crochety old thing that eats paper and breaks down all the time. You have to be a printer whisperer to get it to work. Just babysit it the whole time for every print job and say "good job printer, I know you can do it!"
Papa bear holds 7 reams of paper! Woah, it was built for high industry. It's living below it's privledges...
This is the computer that controls papa bear. Isn't that a riot? It doesn't just "print." You have to come here and adjust stuff and electronically force it out.
These are the tongs for when papa bear is naughty. We stole them from mama bear before she got moved downstairs (she was a mid-capacity color printer. I miss her...so reliable). We use them to pull paper out of hard to reach, piping hot areas. We got burned once and never want that to hapen again! Unfortunately, we have to use them a lot.
This...this is "old faithful." It's our heavy duty black and white. He'll do what ever you ask him to do (from your own computer!) whenever you ask him to do it and he won't jam or break down...ever! I love old faithful. If I ever have a choice, I send a print job to him!
Well, that's my dingy little space in this world! It's where I change the fate of WIC! Hope you enjoyed the tour with my awesome pictures.
