GA Academy

We were having one of our bad TV marathons the other day, and doing some fantasy office decorating (one of our favorite hobbies) at the same time. One of us came up with the brilliant idea that instead of boring coat racks or hooks or shelves, we should have lockers. You know, like we're Team GA or the GA Academy or something.

This led us to a few conclusions:

1. We're huge dorks.

2. We watch way too many shows that are set in high school.

3. We should still totally do this because it's an awesome idea.

Then we started wondering if there are even any places that have lockers for sale to the general office-decorating public, and of course we found a website that does. (Shopping online is a beautiful thing.) After a little bit of browsing, we've decided that we like the stadium style lockers the best. I certainly don't remember my own gym locker with much fondness, but these are much cooler and they come in a bunch of fun colors.



Not only would these look cool and hold all of our stuff, but they'll really help to provide atmosphere for all of our cheesy teen TV and movie watching. (And for sports watching too - we do enjoy watching stuff that's not on the CW sometimes.) These are officially on our fantasy office shopping list.

Fantasy Office Decorating: Tiles

We met someone the other day who was asking us about what we do, and one of the things she asked was where our office is located. (Doesn't she know that all bloggers are legally required to work out of their parents' basements?) So you know what that means...another round of fantasy office decorating!

This time we were talking about cool things that we've seen in the offices that we've all worked in over the years. I used to work in a building that was big on tiles - really pretty subway tiles and a tiled fountain in the lobby, and cool mosaics in all of the elevators. People always commented on it when they visited for the first time. So I had to add tiles to the fantasy list. (It's a long list at this point. Our fantasy office is totally going to be in Architectural Digest.)

Obviously, bathroom tiles are a no brainer. We'd probably go with something like this:


But there's a lot of cool stuff out there (glass, marble, stone, etc.) so we could really go crazy in other rooms if we wanted to. Yes, our fantasy office has "other rooms". (It helps to find a site that's affordable and lets you order lots of samples.)






Knowing us, we'll never be able to choose just one. Guess it's a good thing that tiles are easy to clean.

Label Love

This has been a really busy month for us, between attending conferences and working on some top secret projects. Our to do list is out of control right now. So of course, instead of actually working on the items on the list, we're just working on the list itself. Like, if we just make the list really organized and make it look pretty and have all of the business cards and handouts that we've collected organized, suddenly we'll be so much more motivated to get everything done.

Then we saw these hilarious journalism warning labels, which got us thinking that what we really need is a set of our own custom labels in our lives. Stuff like "Stop Procrastinating", "Clean Out Your Inbox", "FBI: Fix Blog Immediately", and "No, Seriously, STOP Procrastinating". Labels are basically like stickers for adults, right? We're excited just thinking about the amount of time that we could spend picking out exactly the right styles (screen printed? vinyl? domed?) and shapes and colors for our labels that are going to help us stop procrastinating and wasting time.

We also really want to create a custom label collection for when we read magazines. Like "Warning: Cosmo Logic" or "Overpriced Outfit Alert" or "This Article Will Make You Feel Bad About Yourself" or "These Sex Tips Not Tested On Actual Human Beings" or "Do Not Try This Fad Diet Involving Kumquats".

It's a good thing they sell custom labels in big rolls, because we're going to need a lot.

Fantasy Office Decorating: Rugs

We're on a fantasy office decorating kick again. This happens lately every time one of us mentions Pregnancy Pact, one of the most Lifetimey movies that Lifetime has made in years, featuring a character who works for a super cool vlog for teens based out of a "hip" and "trendy" office. It always sets us off on a discussion about the type of office that we want for our empire one day.

We've decided that we need rugs, and not some thin gray crappy generic office carpeting either. We're thinking of going the oriental rugs route, for a few reasons:

a) We're classy and sophisticated like that.
b) We need a nice place to sit when we're organizing our collection of Cosmo clippings
c) We're prioritizing comfort over productivity.
d) Did we mention we're really classy?

This rug + us and our laptops + a stack of Cosmos + pizza and/or Doritos = blogging gold.


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Good Authority Officing

We always love talking about our future plans for our empire. Lately we've been talking a lot about an official Good Authority office - where it would be, how we would decorate, what kind of snacks we'd have. You know, all of the important stuff. We're not as worried about the less critical stuff, like office equipment, phone and internet connections and various other telecommunications products and services, and oh yeah, how to pay for it. Those minor details will work themselves out.

So we were talking about how much fun it would be to have a receptionist to answer our many many important phone calls. And then we thought, why stop there? We should totally have our own call centers to provide support to our many fans and customers. (Instead of a receptionist, we could have a director of call center operations.) They can be scattered across the country and eventually the world, once we achieve global fame. It's a very practical and reasonable idea, we think. There are a lot of people out there who need to have their Good Authority-related needs met at all times.

But then we realized that we just have a romanticized view of the whole call center thing thanks to our recent viewing of the fabulous movie The Other End of the Line, in which the dude from John Tucker Must Die plays a guy who falls in love with the Indian-but-pretending-to-be-American woman who works at the credit card call center and helps him with his fraudulent charge issues. (Happens all the time.) Of course, she falls for him too, so she comes to America to find him and wacky multicultural hijinks ensue.

So, we were forced to face the fact that having our own call centers won't bring us happiness or true love, and further, the reason we'll never need them is because all of our strategic planning meetings devolve into 'hey, let's watch this horrible cheesy movie with that John Tucker guy!' Maybe we should just start with a personal assistant to help keep us organized...and to make the popcorn.