Is it a wayward member of the Hoth-based Rebel Alliance working diligently? No, that isn’t Leia, it’s Lisa Zimmermann, Richardson/Lake Highlands/Far North Dallas editor.

If you couldn’t guess, the climate control situation in the Collin County office leaves a lot to be desired. At least no one has resorted to staying warm inside the belly of a tauntaun … yet.

Speaking of tauntauns, check out this cool tauntaun sleeping bag. Is it on your Christmas list, Oscar?

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Jenice Johnson has started hoarding boxes all the sudden and we don't know why.

I think she's going to make a large fort and not let anyone else in said fort.

I thought hippies didn't like cardboard because it's bad for Mother Earth. Or some hippie excuse like that.

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As Collin noted below... I've brought a lot of stuff from home up to the office.

You see, when I started the job, I had just moved into a new apartment that was a lot smaller than my old apartment. I was also now living with my husband. So stuffed animals, girly art, and other things deemed extraneous had to go.

But I couldn't let go of some of my favorite possessions... so I brought them to the office for everyone to enjoy!

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You know how your parents would "test" you with a small, disposable animal to see if you were ready to take care of a larger animal, such as a dog or cat or llama?

neighborsgo has proven that we can't even take care of a fish.

After Jenice mercy killed the office mascot, Laptop, we decided we can't be trusted with animal - small or large.

While I want an office monkey - you know, to get things off the printer, take proofs to Oscar, fetch me a pop out of the vending maching - it's probably better we stick to something we can't possibly kill: a hardened yellow mass of Play-Dough that resembles a fish.

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This morning, I discovered that an ear bud was missing from my handy set of headphones that go with my dictaphone microcassette transcriber (insert laughter here; I might as well be using a typewriter). I searched everywhere around my cube to no avail, which leads me to the conclusion that there's someone out there who either needed a replacement part, or who is harvesting small pieces of plastic and foam.

So, if you walk by my desk and see me with only one headphone in my ear, I promise I'm not trying to look like I'm practicing my DJing skills. If you see a lonely little earbud out there (or the Peppermint Patty that Oscar gave me that went missing), tell him I'm looking for him.

Ever since Naquanna left, Kendall has been squatting in her desk, thusly abandoning her old cube in the corner.

All her stuff remains, so she basically has two desks.

I'd like two desks. I think I'll start squatting as well. I'll find me an empty office and bunker down in there.

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 A few weeks ago, we looked over and found a bird in our office (West Zone office in Lewisville). Neighborsgo assistant managing editor Robert Tracy was on his game and took a picture of the bird before things blew up in chaos. (The bird eventually exited the building unharmed.)

Our good friends in Metro have begun to shine some rays of hope in the North Pole, er, I mean, North Zone.

The cubicle wall dons newspaper articles that show hope for journalists -- new, effective business models, favorable advertising statistics, pay freezes that are beginning to thaw. 

Too bad it doesn't actually exude warmth, because sometimes typing in this office makes me fear that my fingers might snap off like icicles.

Hmm ... maybe that will be the next thing you see on this blog. My fingers.

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We found this dry erase board with pirates, a lobster and an octopus behind a cabinet one day.

We think Al Dia did it - seeing as everything is in Spanish - when they were sitting over here.

It's pretty disturbing, too. There is a pile of bodies on the "sea floor" and someone just "walked the plank" to their watery death.

Also, the plank says "Republicans." I'm not touching that one with a 10-foot poll.

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I normally only have two computers at my desk - my Mac for designing and my PC from my Lake Highlands editor days. 

Today, I brought in my MacBook to transfer some files from one Mac to another. Needless to say, the desk today is nothing but screens and keyboards.

::snort snort pushes up glasses::

<Insert Star Wars/Star Trek/Lord of the Rings/Nerd joke here>

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