I am a reed.Trouble flows through me and away.

News of my impending departure has slowly started to trickle out. I still haven't made an "official" annoucement to my department, mostly because a lot of them aren't here until next week and partly because of the Great Software Freakout of '06 that will undoubtedly ensue when the beans are freed from their proverbial container.

I've already discussed the transition with my supervisor and things (in theory) should flow smoothly; however, I know that some people in my department have a mental block against learning the software because they've talked themselves into thinking it's complex when it really isn't. C'est la vie. There's only so much hand-holding one can do before one is permanently attached.

It will be nice to go somewhere where someone can hold my hand for a while, where I won't be on "review" 18 months into my job, where I don't have to wait 6+ weeks for my work to be critiqued, where I don't have to teach the same person how to scroll over for the 14th time in as many days. It will be nice not to be isolated and ignored, left alone in a small gray casket office.

As our 'cheerful' pal Aqualung says, "Good times gonna come."