So I just started a new job a month ago. It's going pretty well so far, I mean, as much as an office job can go well. The one bad(?) thing about it is that I have an actual office now, not just a cubicle and that means I needed more decorations to fancy it up a bit.

And now I have a butterfly in a jar. It flaps around every so awesome and is totally often. Or maybe flip that last sentence and reverse it. Anyway, the three main reasons I like this thing (which came with Thinkgeek.com catalog (i.e. my son's favorite book)) are as follows:

1) It reminds me of Reading Rainbow and Lavar Burton.

2) It reminds me of being outside enjoying nature in all it's fragile glory.

3) It symbolizes the soul-crushing entrapment of an office job that you can never escape, just continually butting up against glass walls holding you in, struggling and struggling against the oppression until that moment when your batteries finally die and you give up the ghost with one last gasp and thrash against this cursed jar and the void, this horrifying black void that awaits us all, perched there on the edge of consciousness and every day it creeps closer and closer and closer until suddenly, you're falling and there's nothing that can stop you from being absorbed into the void of that all human consciousness eventually falls into. This is what awaits us all.

So, thanks for the cool decoration and crippling existential angst!