When I left my practice nearly a year ago – and holy crap! where did the time go? – another architect offered me a home in the office he was sharing with friends.
Now here I am getting ready to head to a new office with a new group of people. And I’m realizing that the people who were his friends have now become my friends, and that I’m going to miss many things.
Miss watching the two accountants running around during tax season, trying to get everything filed and telling some pretty catty stories in the process. Miss being able to pop my head into the therapist’s office for the occasional mental health check.
And miss having the accountants’ assistant make me laugh by asking me to feel her leg. I guarantee you I’m not getting that at the new office. And if I do, the leg is bound to be a lot hairier.
However, there’s something I think I’ll miss even more:
Working in the land of hot engineers.
You heard that correctly.
Hot. Engineers. Two words I’d never in my life think of putting together.
When I think of engineers, I don’t picture hot. I picture ill-fitting pants. Glasses. Pocket protectors. I picture the structural engineer I met one year with enough hair in his ears to make me wonder if he was part werewolf.
Yet within the large engineering firm that shares our floor, I keep bumping into unexpected treats that no one ever told me about.
Did I miss something in college? The engineering building was right next door to the architecture school. Were these guys wandering around and I just never noticed? Is this what I missed by spending late nights hunched over a drafting table? And why have I never been asked to feel one of their legs?
So as I get settled into the new digs, perhaps I’ll find an excuse to pop over once in a while. Say hi to everyone. Get caught up on the latest gossip. Feel a leg.
And if luck is with me, catch a fleeting glimpse of a hot engineer.
I happen to work in the recreation department of one of the nation’s top engineering schools which I shall leave unnamed. The swimming pool to be specific. I am no longer surprised at how hot engineers can be—young ones, old ones, in-between ones. Of course there are also some real horrors, but it all balances out.
To be totally honest I’m kind of desensitized to it at this point. Meh, there goes another one. . .
Good luck in the new office. May it be filled with lovely legs.