"Excuse me. Come this way..."

I got checked at the gate today coming in to work. It was like being at the airport. "Please could you come this way in to this little booth... Take out all the things in your bag and show them to me." The thing is that had my friend not told me that he got checked one day I would probably have freaked out or at least been kind of weird about it. Now, I was just like "Oh, OK. No problem. Here's my lunch, my phones, a book and all these other items that weird people like me carry around..." I had to walk to work because I forgot to take a bike early enough yesterday so the morning was kind of weird already. I don't really know what they were looking for. Maybe a camera. No cameras allowed. They didn't check my papers to see if I was carrying any information that wasn't allowed to leave the premises. My friend has a memory stick (not allowed) and they didn't mind that. Maybe they thought I was a terrorist. I do maybe look the part. I was just thinking this morning how I was doing my "everyone move - and if you don't I'll slam right into you" -walk. People moved out of my way quite nicely. (Oh like when I go inline skating people look really scared like I'm just going to run right into them though I'm trying to look nice and all.) Oh well. Was fun and all.

Oh and yes. I took my own lunch today for the first time. The thing is that I ended up not eating it since I went to lunch with my boss. I even took a book so I could quietly read it while eating. I think it's a sort of weird coincidence not having to eat it. Now I just have to remember to fetch my lunch from the refrigerator so no one will throw it away. I had to put my name and the date on it so I guess they throw the old ones out.

Gotta go home now. It's way late to be at work and I'm tired. I should check the news though. I have no idea what's going on in the world. Found out today that it was a really dry summer in Finland. Forest fires in Russia and such. Maybe some country has attacked their neighbor again. I wouldn't know.