Posting on the run...

So, we're doing English placement tests in these offices that were clearly designed by the Borg. They are identical on every floor, the cubicles laid out in exactly the same way, and the eerie thing is that there do not appear to be any managers or secretaries on the floor -- just rank-and-file employees.

At first I wondered if they were one of those anarcho-syndicalist banks, but everyone was too subdued. Even weirder were the kitchens -- they were identical right down to the colour scheme, to the art on the walls, to the amount of soap in the soap dispensers. Only the fridges were different -- on the upper floor, one was pushed back farther a few feet. Someone is going to hang for that, I'm sure.

Then the thought struck me that it's far more likely they share a collective consciousness, and the reason every floor, and every side of each floor, is identical is so that they, like the Borg, can continue to function even when 90% of the collective is destroyed. As the parts are interchangeable, they can take over one another's functions.

Security is insane there. I don't know whether to be more disturbed by the fact that security is so tight that it's taken two days to process the paperwork to get us passes so that we can use the bathroom at some point during our 8.5 hour days -- or that security is so lax that two English teachers were able to sneak in anyway and spend the whole day there without being noticed.

Anyway, here's one of the weirdest (and most fun) memes going:

( The WinAMP randomizer fortunetelling meme )