Ever since I left previous job at Lockheed Martin, I never really get into work before 8am anymore. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever come into the Booz office before 8am. But today was different. So every Friday, our office orders Noah’s Bagels in the mornings and they get delivered around 7:30 am. I usually roll in around 7:55 to 8:00 am since I always have a telecon Friday mornings, but I decided to show up at 7 today… that means I had the first shot at selecting bagels this morning. And dude, I was like a kid in a candy shop.

My choices for bagels on Friday mornings at 8am usually consist of: some crappy blueberry bagel, some crappy bagel loaded up with a ton of salt, and some other crappy bagels not even worth mentioning. But because I came in at 7am today, I found out that there was more to the box of bagels than just crappy bagels. I found out that there were, in fact, types of bagels that I didn’t even know existed! For example, I found out that there are chocolate chip bagels, cinnamon sprinkled bagels, and even plain bagels! And the spreads… lets not even get started about the different types of spreads (honey walnut, jalepeno, veggie, etc). Usually, the empty lids of the different spreads just stare back at me, mocking my hunger for delicious foods. But not today! Needless to say, I’m pretty sure I’ll be clocking into the office on Fridays a bit earlier from now on.

As I’m writing this, I can’t help but to be reminded of Stanley Hudson from The Office on pretzel day, and how he basically mows down everyone in order to get his once an year free pretzel. Corporate life can be such a downer…