Friday, May 23, 2003

It may only be obvious

It may only be obvious to me, but to me it’s inescapably obvious that the corner of this floor on which I work, down at the opposite end of this side - in other words, I’m south-west, and I’m talking about the north-west corner - so in that corner, it really smells like cat pee.  A lot.  Not dog.  Maybe ferret.  But I digress: my question is this - is there anything other than the obvious to make a part of a high-rise cubefarm smell like little Mr. Friskers did some impromptu Jackson Pollock action on the industrial low-nap?  It’s smelled for days.  I was hoping it was just some skeeze with b.o. but it doesn’t look like I’m that lucky. 

That area is a different department altogether, much larger and less harmonious than mine.  I don’t want to make waves, talking to someone about the secret kitten someone else is keeping in her file cabinet to try to preserve some vestige of warm human feeling in the harsh, drab world of membership “services,” which is a euphemism for billing, which is where the peereek hovers… yes it sounds a bit extreme to me too, but who am I to judge?  This would be the very sort of thing I could so easily ruin for everybody, it’s better that I just walk around to the coffee station the slightly less convenient way and minimize my exposure to the stench (or, “stenchposure.") You know what cat pee carpet smells like in the morning?  Hint: it’s not victory.