OK. So, on our last day we went catamaran sailing and I sat up front with some girls and got completely wet and loved it. (Hush dirty joke, I'm not going there until later in the post.) I finally got to sleep in because we didn't have to do the sailing until the afternoon, which meant breakfast wasn't a group activity. I then also spent a lot of time in the morning creating awards for each and every one of those teenagers. Why? Because in the end, they grow on you and you start to like them.
We gave the awards out later that evening at dinner. At Planet Hollywood, where we had the entire upstairs to ourselves for a very awesome dance party!!! Finally, something Liz is good at! There was some very raunchy dancing on the part of the teenies. What made it bearable was watching the tall guys try to grind up on some much shorter girls. ... Oh nature, thank you for making some people unable to dance at all. Because it's hysterical! Bent knees, crouched forward, butt swinging back and forth, not knowing what to do with arms. Sounds desirable, doesn't it?
And then we left the next day, which was also very quiet. :) And I came home very brown!
But on to the very important topic of guys!
I started a new temp job. And I'm a girl replacing the only girl in the customer support division. Everyone else is a guy! This makes my job so much better. Sigh. They're mostly all taken, but whatever. I like working with and being around guys because it's just easier. They don't feel forced to engage in conversation, they tend to laugh at my crass jokes, and they are just so much funner to look at. I never gawk, except in my head. :)
And there is one in particular who is... more desirable than the others. Probably because he hasn't mentioned a significant other yet. But really, he's funny and entirely geeky. In a good way. Of course, it is a tech company, hence the severe ratio of men to women. So, therefore, most of the guys would be geeks. But yeah, he's a gamer geek, but he's cute!
I've only been there since Monday, so I'm still establishing my place in the group. But they are all really friendly and jovial and... just plain cool. Dude, my manager rides a skateboard to work! I get to wear jeans! And I get paid well! The only "bad" things about the job are that you have to stare at a computer screen and deal with stupid people, i.e. customers. I can deal with that if it means laughing at gamer boys and being the cutest thing there. In a skirt. I have to add that in case I crack their fragile male egos. Not that anyone except C works on their hairstyles in the morning.
Ah yes, I should introduce you to all of them:
C = a gamer geek who bellows quite loudly in normal speech, married.
D = very nice guy who knows everything about the systems so I ask him everything, live-in girlfriend.
P = obsessed about anything Japanese (anime, manga, etc.) guy who whines a lot, married.
Ma = deep-voiced cool dude who is the most laid-back person in the office, married.
Mi = the cute gamer geek who takes care of his plants in the office (he has another cubicle for it) and who fastidiously put together another computer for me, so that I wasn't working with Vista, need to find out.
And, of course, S = skateboarding manager who doesn't lose me at all when he explains exactly how the company works, married.
And then, there's me, L = only female in the office who is desperately trying to pick things up from O, even though she "teaches" a little faster than I like. O's due on the 17th - a girl, Natasha. :) I hope she sends baby pictures! I'm gonna need girly stuff like that to keep me grounded.
OK, long post, but the first in a hopefully long line of updates about the men in the office.