i got out of my car this morning and there were several pairs of geese waddling around the parking lot of my building. likewise, there was goose crap everywhere. so yes, spring is here, despite the fact that it briefly snowed yesterday and it's cold out. last year there were a couple of geese who made a nest right in the middle of our parking lot. i guess they thought it was a good spot at the time because the lot was mostly empty and the building was under construction. it all worked out because there weren't many cars at the time. so they had some little goslings and they left the parking lot and headed for the nearby pond. ...but i wonder if the same pair will come back to try to nest there again this year. that would be dangerous, there are cars zipping around like crazy these days. i'm lucky if i make it from my car to the door without getting run over. today i move to a new building, so i guess i'll have to wait and see, once i'm coming back here for meetings or something.

so i went to the post office after lunch. i parked next door at the bank, and i cut through over an old toppled-over wood fence around the back of the post office. as i walked along the paking lot and i noticed many rubber bands on the ground. they were most concentrated by a run-down-looking loading dock on the back corner of the building. i had a passing thought about stopping to bend down and pick up some rubber bands, but i just kept walking. once inside, while placing my letters in the 'out of town' slot, i though to myself: i need rubber bands, i don't have any at my desk, and i need some at home too. i should pick some up. on my way out i noticed that the handicapped/wheelchair lift next to the stairs was surrounded by, and also filled, with many empty boxes and other random things like a crumpled up blue shirt. i thought that was odd. i came outside and back around the building, and as i walked i looked down again at the many rubber bands. i decided not to pick up any rubber bands. it just felt like weird thing to do, picking up rubber bands off the ground behind the post office. so i continued on and stepped over the toppled fence and on into my car, and drove back to the office.

i have to start packing up my office soon. i have to move out of this cubicle and into an office a few town's away. the good news is i will have an office with a door as opposed to an open-air cube. the bad news is i will have an old crappy desk and no windows. strangely enough, i will be moving back to this very same building again in a few months. that's the way things work around here.