While I was working at American Textile Company I mentioned that our department, the Graphics Department, wasn’t all that close. I’m used to co-workers that, while maybe not being real close friends, at least took the time to talk, give opinions of designs, etc…. during working hours or over lunch.

Besides myself and my manager, there were three other artists in our department. Back on April 20th, five months after I had started, two of the artists (the women) actually asked me out to lunch. The third artist, the man who’d been there the longest, would be cordial but never real close (though we would occasionally talk about the Pittsburgh Penguins).

All that being said, that’s why I was very surprised, and after reading it, very appreciative, with this unsolicited e-mail he sent me. It’s not going to change things and in the long run won’t make a bit of difference (and frankly I don’t expect to ever hear back from him again) but it did make me a bit happy today.