I know a lot of people are probably bummin' over the rain again today (and holy moly, the mosquitos) but even in this flat light, rainy morning that is probably ruining someone's Friday off, I'm happy.
For many years of my life (most of my 30's), I worked in a basement office, about 8 x 10 (maybe), in what had once been a storage area for the hospital. It had no windows and horrific ventilation (acknowledged as such by the maintenance folks since humans were never meant to work in that area). For years I had chronic sore throats that went away every weekend when I was away from the building. We had high 'billable hour' requirments and half-hour lunches (when we didn't have meetings scheduled over them). That meant eating took place in the same area.
As a result, in the winters, I could literally go without seeing any sun for days at a time, arriving in dark morning and leaving after sunset. Being so far in the bowels of the building, I could never hear thunder, or rain, or know if it was snowing or if the breeze was just beautiful on a spring day.
I literally had no idea what the weather was for years of my fulltime working life.
Of course, even there I had to count myself lucky. My husband's office had previously been an x-ray room.
Not only was it smaller than mine but it was also encased in lead.
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