Today was denim day at the Fed. I think it's a sad testament to my unhappiness here that the combination of being able to wear jeans and the cafeteria serving nachos made this the best day I've had at work in months.

The denim thing wasn't done very well, however. My department manager sent out an email late yesterday, and a lot of people did not see it. If there had been something bad that we needed to know, they would have called a meeting to make sure we all knew, but they seem to care so little about us that making sure we all knew about something good was not much of a priority. Several people in my department are very unhappy that the one day they can wear jeans after working here for two years, their managers neglected to tell them about it. And I totally understand their anger.

I walked in this morning and the first 20 people or so that I saw in the building were not wearing jeans, leaving me VERY paranoid that I had gotten the wrong day. Later I found out that two of those people I had seen walking in without jeans were actually wearing black jeans.