shh shh office

Ok. Been back BACK in this country a month and in an actual real office for the last 2 weeks ... an office where I am expected to turn up and expected not to leave by and before certain prescribed times. Expected to look and sound professional ... presumably until I am well enough liked/tolerated to act/talk a little less than text-book presentation dictates. Lots and lots of air-conditioning. Lots of shhhhhhhh, noise that is not actually noise, humming that lies just under the radar - not sure exactly what it is - leather-backed swivel seats rolling across marbled carpet; computer hard-drives whirring some electronic pah; the slick sleeves of flipping folders and files; ink-jet printers emitting paper emissaries signalling the work due now, due tomorrow, due yesterday.

Haven't been in a proper shh shh office as a worker bee for over 1.5 years.

Am praying the shh shh isn't just inside my head.