crazy in a good way

so i've officially transferred over to the milwaukee office. generally, i like it better. sure, i don't get to hang out with my madison friends much anymore, but hey, they put up cubicle walls between us so we couldn't talk anymore anyways. and my desk here, get this, has a motor that raises and lowers the part my computer on so that i don't have to hunch over because they made the desk for short people. i think someday i'll even be able to move my chair up so that i'm not sitting on the floor!
the people here are....different. first off, we have a business casual dress code. i would say 30% of people are wearing jeans every day. and 10% are wearing gym pants. not exactly business casual.
in the past 4 days, i have been privy to 2 loud conversations that have no place in the workplace. the first was a woman (i have no idea who she is) who was VERY upset with her boyfriend/husband because he did not finish tilling the backyard. she was yelling. phrases such as "i don't want to hear it", "i'm sick of this s%*t", and various other strongly worded phrases came out of her mouth and clearly traveled the distance from her cubicle to mine, nearly 4 cubes away. after her final yelling match, she walked to the next aisle over to ask if anyone would be willing to house her boyfriend/husband. as if we did not already know what was going on. i know nothing about this woman, other than her boyfriend/husband is named Rocky and she feels strongly about her backyard being tilled.
yesterday, one of the secretarys (we still call them that here) was on the phone. she is on the phone at least 6 hours a day. never to anyone at work, always to friends and family. one of the remaining hours is lunch. i suspect she works for maybe 1 hour a day. she was having a loud conversation with someone. she asked this person where they found the money to purchase "smack" (i am not up on the linguistics of this, maybe EK can hook me up?) and she inquired how this person could afford "smack" and not afford to pay her back. she was very concerned about getting her money from this person. she has attended 1 funeral, 1 wedding shower that all the guests had to contribute money to, and one graduation in the last week. i could not pick her out of a crowded room, but i do know all this.
so these are the people i work with here in milwaukee. just keeping things interesting. it's almost like having a TV on all day long....