The New Road

My Office

Because I'm working away from the Leverage central office so much I decided it would be best to just rent a little executive suite for myself. There were a lot of options but the one I found most appealing was in a little forested office complex in Fremont.

As it turns out my office is in a section with a suite of five offices. There is a little waiting area and then the set of five doors. When I first toured around the office I didn't really notice what types of other services were being offered. As it turns out, all of the other offices are psychiatrists or psychologists.

That turns out to be interesting for two reasons. First, the walls of the office are specially sound dampened. That's awesome since that means I can turn up the tunes even louder and nobody will notice. It's pretty amazing actually. You have to be right up at the door to hear the treble of my stereo. Though the bass rumble from the sub woofer radiates nicely through the walls as if they were nothing.

The other interesting thing is the reactions that I get when I go out of my office to go to lunch or the bathroom. Most of the time the waiting area is vacant, but sometimes I get people waiting for their own appointments or for those of their loved ones. What's interesting is their expressions, especially with the men. The men really don't want you to know they are there. They don't want to be noticed because it's a shrink's office and that means they have mental problems. It's crazy, amusing and sad all at once. How did mental illness get this stigma in our society?

Maybe I'll put up some pictures of the office sometime. It's not much to look at. But it is comfortable and pleasant.