"Hotelling"

With prime real estate prices skyrocketing and office space shrinking, my organization has gone to "hotelling" for our contingent workforce. At any given time, we probably have 2 or 3,000 consultants and temps engaged in various short-term tasks. This is where they'll "live" from now on. I think the carpet pattern was picked to ensure no-one stays for a long time: it's positively epilepsy-inducing...

On the home front, just found out that my youngest daughter, a star volleyball player on her university's team, got injured and will need surgery on tuesday to repair her torn meniscus. She is really bummed out and I feel bad for her. My husband, who just retired (thank god), will be on his way down to Florida to help her through the initial recovery period.