High Up

I'm in my new office (!) looking out the window.  We're way up high here, on the 10th floor.  In this city, there aren't a lot of buildings with more than 10 stories.  This one has a few more floors above us.  Unfortunately there's a tall building right across the street that's blocking a good part of the sky.  To the right of that building is Monument Square, a central gathering place right in the middle of town.  I can look out over the square, down a brick promenade and across the top of buildings to the harbor.  There's a ferry going slowly across the grey water toward Peak's Island, and a barge heading inward from House Island.  Two seagulls are swooping at about eye level over the square.  There are four more sitting along the top rim of One City Center, a building across the way from me.  Wherever you are in Portland, you can look around for a moment or two and see seagulls. 

I can look across the way into the offices of people in the building across the street.  I can't tell from their offices what they do.  A lot of them have blinds down.  I can see a diploma hanging on the wall of one office.  Is it a law school diploma?  I wonder if anyone's looking out from behind their blinds across the way at me, sitting here at the conference room table, looking out the window and dreaming....?

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Congratulations!
From,
Faithful reader.

[cmc]

Congratulations!

As someone who is about to move happily to my state's version of BIGLAW, I nonetheless envy you the control you have, as a self-employed attorney, over your own destiny.

[Zook]

I hope someone buys you a pair of binoculars for your birthday so you can make out the diploma across the way. The view you describe seems so peaceful.

I am curious what type of office arrangement you have. Did you lease just a single office in a building where you share a conference room?