Everything's Better With Cake

Mood: Better
Song: West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Units of Caffeine: 4

About five minutes after I wrote my last post, my boss came into my office. Now, being a grad student, you can imagine that my job isn't all that glamorous, nor does it pay very much. However, the people I work with more than make up for that. Throughout my time working for the University, Boss and co-workers have been extremely supportive of me, my goals and my education. When the shit went down with my project, Boss immediately wrote me an e-mail to tell me how sorry she was to hear that things had taken a turn for the worse and offered to work with me in every way possible to help me graduate by December. She told me, "the last thing you need to worry about right now is work."

Well, as I said, she came into my office with a cake from one of the best bakeries I have ever been to and admitted that, before my project fell through, she and the staff had planned a little "pick-me-up" party that was to be held yesterday afternoon. In light of what had happened, they had cancelled it (also because I took most of the day yesterday to meet with folks and try to regroup about this thing). But, Boss told me they still had the cake. So, she gave me the cake, "because everything gets better with cake," and promised some major party once everything is said and done and the semester is over.

Although I'm excited about Seattle, it's going to be hard to leave this office next year.