I am eating oatmeal for lunch alone in my office and I'm pretty okay with it. Well, alone for values of alone that include Seabiscuit.

My basic mode of teamwork with many of my colleagues is surface antagonism. I have a co-worker, same team, similar title, who's therefore not actually on many of my project teams, with whom I have a constant barrage of joking insults go back and forth--it's established that my boss and manager flip between staying out of the middle and keeping us separated. He basically has first dibs on talking trash about me.

There's another guy I sling shit with, a developer who's on, like, half my projects. Yesterday morning I get an email from him and another developer, informing me about some sort of issue that makes *no* sense to me, and it takes me some exchanges to work out it's not actually one of my projects, so freakout forestalled.

The way this developer and I work is that he constantly begs to not have anything to do with me or any of my projects, and always fights back when I ask him to do anything, and my angle is that I'm entirely responsible for any success he's ever had at the company (including before I joined), and that if it weren't for me, he'd never get anything done. To outsiders, it probably looks really weird and antagonistic.

Yesterday, when I asked why I was getting those emails he said "Why aren't you on all my projects? It would make things so much simpler." I've had an intense week so far, but that was one of the most touching things I've had anyone say to me, and I'll absolutely never remind him he said that.

I ordered drunken noodles from the Thai place down the street. They were delicious and I ate them way too fast.

Now I want Chinese food.

I also have to find a new hairdresser. Do not want. But I also want a better haircut.

Great photo, Tom!

I've gone out with a different person for lunch every day so far this week.

I ate lunch at the school with the kids. Cafeteria food.

Tom Scola, social butterfly.

I submitted 2 expense reports ALL BY MYSELF!! And cleared out my bosses charges on his card. I can go home now, right?

I think I'm having yogurt and a banana. With the cats. One of whom is currently on My List.

What sort of lenses do you use?

I have Too Many Lenses! Lately, I've been mostly shooting with prime lenses; I have the 12mm, 17mm, 20mm, 25mm, and 45mm. This photo was shot with the 17mm (the equivalent of a 35mm lens on a 35mm camera), which is the worst lens, but is a convenient focal length for street shooting.

Woe. One of my neighbors complained about the bees and I have to get rid of them. I don't actually know how to do that, but I expect I will figure something out.