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January 30, 2007
O'Neill the Fish
Our building is still under construction, and the lobby is the epitome of chaos in New York. Beautiful dark wood semi-circle desk, beautiful semi-circle wall (behind which our mailboxes are hidden), offset by a plywood lean-to as an entrance, plywood floor covering the beautiful mosaic tile floor, and white drywall dust everywhere. It is stark, cold and uninviting. Bridgette, our concierge, tried to spruce things up a bit by buying a fish, and named it O'Neill. She put it in with the flowers that the superintendent bought for the lobby. Shortly after the flowers died, O'Neill found his way into a plastic tub. The vase was gone. The cranky super asked her to get rid of O'Neill because "the water will attract roaches". Never mind the garbage piling up in the trash room on our floor, which he should be removing. I snapped this photo of Bridgette with O'Neill shortly before she took him home. Farewell, O'Neill, and thank you Bridgette for bringing a little colour into our dreary lobby.
Posted by dave at January 30, 2007 04:55 PM