So I need to get a 2005 calendar for my cube at work, and finding one is harder than I thought it would be.
First, let me respond to some of you before you read any further by saying
yes, I'm
fully aware that I already
have a calendar built into my computer. I simply like to see each month on paper in four/five week square blocks thank-you-very-much.
Cube calendars, like all decorations hanging in someone's cube, can say a lot about a person. I am absolutely guilty of making assumptions about people based on the type of calendar they have hanging in their cube. (Oh, please, so do
you, so you just put your moral judgment stick right back wherever you keep it).
Last year I had a World Architecture calendar hanging in my cube. Not only were the photos kind of neat, but the general subject of architecture is somewhat neutral in that it doesn't allow people to infer too much about your personal life or interests outside of the office. In my view, it's the perfect corporate cube calendar subject.
2005 calendars are on sale now, and, as you all know, anything that is both useful
and 50% off of the original price = yummy shopping goodness. I left the house on a mission, only to return with the perfect calendar for Fabulous Husband's cube (go figure), and
zilcho for my own cube.
This year's cube calendar choices are:
1.
Puppies! Puppies! Puppies! (!)
2.
Kittens! (tumbling out of baskets! and paper bags! with bows in their hair!)
3.
Faeries (a faerie for every month. When's your birthday? Because there's a faerie!)
4.
Show dogs (
with their handlers, for some unfortunate reason)
5.
New England Scenery (um, hello redundant for New Englanders? Why not just call it: Your Commute)
6.
Anne Geddes Babies (tumbling out of baskets! and paper bags! with bows in their hair!)
7.
Far Side (too eighties, even for me)
8.
Dilbert (too close to home)
9.
Exploring Mars: Photos from Sojourner (
perfect for Fab Husband's cube)
10.
The Scottish Countryside (because people in Boston are so closely connected to...Scotland...)
11.
Harleys (which always goes over well in a corporate setting, especially when found hanging in a pregnant woman's cube)
12.
Horses (Nay, I say)
13 A series of
Red Sox as World Series Winners/Gods calendars. (God forbid, people might start talking to me about the current season, which would lead to my instant outing as a fair-weather fan)
14.
Nascar (as
if)
Disgusted, I began some deep self-exploration: what photographic subject do I
really want to be staring at throughout the next year? The only subject that popped into mind
besides Fabulous Husband (who does not yet have a calendar but probably should because his butt is so damn fine), was Rick Springfield.
Of course there is a
Rick Springfield 2005 Calendar, but really: who would ever take me seriously in a meeting knowing that I had that hanging on my wall? Furthermore, do I really want random co-workers to know that much about me? I suppose could buy the smaller-sized Rick Springfield calendar and hide it behind my monitor, but nosey people would find it because, well, they suck. Plus I already have a picture of me
with Rick Springfield hanging on my cube wall, though it's kind of small and somewhat hidden behind my monitor. On the other hand, people don't ever guess that it's Rick Springfield per se because, really, just how likely are
you to recognize Rick Springfield at age 52 (or however old he is now)? Except for how
beyond excited I appear in said picture, he looks like he could be a distracted uncle or something.
I guess I could buy a lame-ass plain calendar, one you can get at a stationary store. You know, the kind with the big blank white boxes and no pictures? But then co-workers will walk into my cube and think: "What a lame-ass, plain person. She could at least put up some pictures of puppies or something."
Sigh.
Posted at 3:02 pm by Suburbia
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