Cube Life

Sometimes I ponder the amount of work that would get done in the world if people weren't in cubes right on top of each other in the work place... Yes, there would be the procrastination factor of having more privacy. No one would hear your phone conversations or be able to see your monitor screen. However, there would also be a door that people could close when they were sincerely wanting to do work (which for me is most of the time).

Currently, I am writing a piece on my work with one of the center's initiatives for a Public Policy Monthly published by a regional non-profit. I am trying to do my best work at striking the right tone, while I have eight conversations going on around me. There is the meeting that is happening in the cube straight ahead of me that includes at least three people with huge outbursts of laughing, the constant chatter of people at the copy machine behind me about things like their dogs and the weather, the phone conversation happening across the wall that includes a very lively exchange in Spanish, and the computer instruction that is happening in another cube behind me that involving a lot of catty gossip interspersed.

I write by continually reading back to myself what I have written and work the writing out in my head as I go along. Needless to say, it is a bit of a challenge to concentrate today. Which is probably why I find myself writing on my blog, while I am supposed to be writing for work. My blatant procrastination is a first and I think it has a lot to do with not being able to hear myself think.

It is Monday! Everyone should be sleepy and busy reading online news sites like TMZ (I just learned about this)- not by conferencing with everyone they work with around me! Well, back to work I go. The phone conversation is over and so is the pow wow at the copier, so on-ward I will endeavor to be a productive worker in cube land.