The Diary of Girl Friday

Girl Friday and Lucky 10-Key go way back to the day of single digit birthdays and accessorizing with reckless abandon. Lucky 10-Key didn’t always have her mighty City Style. At one time she wore coordinating sweat suits and Keds (way before Mischa Barton said it was okay). Girl Friday also admits to committing crimes against fashion as a youngster too, she had Bongo jeans in all shades of the rainbow (also long before Rachel Bilson was the spokesmodel). Nevertheless, Lucky 10-Key can wear Ann Taylor so well that paparazzi mistake it for Intermix! The Superheroine of City Style can turn a $100 dress into a $400 claim to fame. Now there’s some math I’d like to see!

Lucky 10-Key’s fellow accounting coworkers are so jealous of her City Style that they employ unsavory tactics to unnerve her! They ask why she wears cute polka dotted skirts and luxurious sweaters. Lucky 10-Key replies, “Because I can!” With the accuracy of her trusty adding machine, Lucky 10-Key can balance figures and mix and match an outfit like you wouldn’t believe. No sale rounder will go unturned and no number will go uncrunched when Lucky 10-Key is on the job.

Watch out for the Superheroine of City Style! If you want to dress to impress, follow Lucky 10-Key’s principle:
Time spent on personal grooming and style multiplied by the number of days in a week equals fashionably fierce!

The Agency hounded Girl Friday relentlessly all week by because she is their prized Superheroine of Small Offices Everywhere! They told her in detailed messages that one hopeless worker couldn’t (and I quote), GET THE PHONES. Girl Friday wonders if perhaps her hands were trapped inside cement blocks, or if by “get” they meant she didn’t understand the concept of answering a ringing phone. Well, we can’t all be Superheroines! Still, Girl Friday hardly feels compelled to do The Agency any favors after the way they harassed her earlier in the week when she told them she was (gasp!) busy. In addition, The Agency snubbed Latte Lady, and that my friends, is unacceptable. Latte Lady ran the gamut this week and escaped mostly unscathed. Believe it or not the high point of her week was when she was mistakenly held at gunpoint by local police officers, and the low point was when she rescinded her two weeks notice…brutal. With two such renegade Superheroines on the lamb, no mild mannered HR Manager is safe.

Girl Friday is currently on hiatus from Small Offices Everywhere. Normally she works from home, although today she has staked out a table at a downtown coffee shop. Amidst the blenders blending, the milk steamer steaming, and the students studying, Girl Friday is musing about her current state of being and working on that damned novel. She finds her work feeds the soul but not always the stomach. She prefers her makeshift offices to those of the lunes she has more than once frequented. Just the other day she visited her former coworkers and witnessed the grotesque mismanagement that more than a few places of business are under. She did, however, score some sweet candy. Got to love Halloween!

Girl Friday finds herself missing interaction with people. Gasp! Girl Friday isn’t quite the misanthrope you may think. Her dialogue is mainly one-sided now as she yells at her favorite TV characters. Does anyone else besides Girl Friday question Rory’s length of bangs or wonder if Stephen is ever going to admit his undying love for LC? With few people to share her pop culture concerns, Girl Friday has ferociously read and hypothesized about the threads on E Online’s message boards.

While Girl Friday’s current office situation lacks coworkers, it does provide a free gym membership (a treadmill and a nice selection of Pilates DVDs), convenient parking, casual dress code (pajamas before noon are quite acceptable), and flexible hours (work starts when she feels like it and ends when her carpal tunnel pains flare up). With the compensation and benefits package to be determined, it is clear that Girl Friday is either bold and daring or dumb and foolish. The jury is still out on that one.

Another random amenity that Girl Friday misses is water delivery service. The Brita filter runs a distant second to spring water at the proverbial water cooler. Though the list sounds lengthy, don’t think for a second that Girl Friday will enthusiastically return to the (paid) workforce. Being a Superheroine is tough work, especially in Small Offices Everywhere. Girl Friday is desperately hoping for a promotion to Superheroine of All Things New and Exciting!!!!!!!