Volume 1, Issue 28 | Season’s Farewells

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                December 22, 2024

            Volume 1, Issue 28 | Season’s Farewells

            If you’re heading anywhere for the holidays, have a great time! If you’re sticking around, so are we! We’ve got a few unofficial and official events planned, so reach out if you’d like some company. (That’s what we’re about.)
—Ivan
Happenings
This week:
Nothing
(At least not officially.)
Future Weeks:
Moonlight Showcase #1261, Monday, Dec 30
Moonlight members only (for now). This is where Moonlighters show off work from the last lunation and commit to projects for the next lunation. Interested in joining a social club for side projects based around the cycle of the moon? Reply to this email.
Old Year’s Resolution Party, Tuesday, Dec 31
What happened to you this past year? How did it resolve? Before whatever wild midnight celebration you’re going to, come to The Company and make a small artifact of 2024.
We’ll provide prompts for guided reflection and also have a chance to hear from each other.
No, old acquaintance should not be forgot. Why do you keep asking us that? →
Nostalgia
Do you remember Yoga with Dan? How he told stories of love? That afterward, while I worked on Paperwork, the two of you played Splendor?
How that Monday, Justin finally sat down for a mid morning break? How we talked about the creative event, and worked on finding a better name for it? How a little while later we had the longest lunch?
Do you remember the book club at Chriskindlmarket? How there were so many of us fumbling around in the cold, buying hot drinks and crepes and mittens? Do you remember how we fell and danced and tottered about the stage? Or that we talked about our favorite parts of the story? Or that we walked into the big tree and were so happy to look up?
That Tuesday with so many of us? How you went to Odie B’s to pick up lunch, and got Christmas-themed signs? How the Christmas tree appeared while we ate, and you set it up, and how, as the light faded, the glow of the Christmas lights illuminated that corner?
The walks? Lucy’s tour of the space? How we finally had another Management meeting, and it was so long?
How Lizzie brought in a dime for The Company? And we immediately started trying to put things on it?
The walk to get ice cream? How we discovered that right next to the ice cream was a whole store of Christmas trees?
How that was the day that Allyson shared that one of her saddest emotions is not being able to hold her friends as tiny children, and it made all of us so sad?
The work night? How you could finally work on whatever you wanted to in the moment? How Elijah’s goal with the sewing machine was so long and specific that we made an acronym for it, and spent much of the rest of the night trying to remember what it meant? The easy star?
How Emily came by? How you helped her make coffee? How the last few desks were claimed, and Ashley shared Michelle’s desk with her? How Halie surprise showed up? And how some of us said our goodbyes for the break, wished each other well, and clocked out?
How Michelle and Dan hugged around a pole?
How we left early to prep for dinner at home, but that was the day that a pipe had burst at our building, so we came back and hosted dinner from here, our second home?
Bureaucratic Minutiae
We have a Christmas tree! Thanks for Jim for bringing it in and providing us with a precious set of ornaments for it.
We are now out of hot desks! We are working on getting more, but for now all the desks have been claimed.
We’ve acquired a Company Dime by donation of Lizzie. We have put all sorts of things on it already. If you would like to put anything on The Company Dime, just bring it in and we’ll help you out.
At Worknight: Jacob finished a fractal noise algorithm, Will added auto-save, Ivan drew five letters, Lizzie crocheted some amount of a book cover, Elijah almost DIACOFPATTWSHDP, Norton resolved website grid issues, LIvvy wrote her name in 5 cipher variants, and Ben considered structure.
Notes from PowerPoint Party No. 21 have been updated.
Finally, a reminder that The Company is a membership-supported mixed-use creative space, and if you know any of us, you’re welcome to pop in any time for free (outside of events). If you know that one of us is here and you’d like to come by, reach out and we can let you in.
Do you know anyone in the Denver area who might be looking for creative community? Feel free to forward this email along to them. Everyone loves Paperwork.
😘
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This issue of Paperwork was made possible by the support of our members, Halie, Drew, Justin, Mason, Lexi, José, Mary Ann, Trevr, Aubrey, Allyson, Madison, Melissa, Elijah, Dan, Michelle, Jim, Jacob, Mark, Ben, Sabrina, Beth, and our newest members, Dani, Chris, and Brynn.

Yoga with Dan.
Splendor with Dan.
This was a special moment in which, after weeks and months and years of Too Much Work, Justin finally had time to sit down and just take a quick break with us. He made a big deal about it and made sure to help me realize this was Paperwork-worthy. I don’t remember why, but Michelle thought this was very funny.
For lunch we went on a quick stroll to Tony P’s to buy a loaf of bread to supplement some soup we brought in, but Tony P’s was very closed.
Mary Ann’s Book Club met at Chriskindlmarket, and after wandering around buying treats we pulled two tables together to talk.
And then we went and stood inside the slightly-tree-shaped cone of lights and marveled at how satisfying it was to look up.
And then got one of the better group pictures we’ve ever taken together. Photo by José.
Not everyone likes to be merry about Christmas-themed things. Photo by Justin.
Lunches lately have been well-attended. It’s a nice overlap of the late-morning arrivers and early-afternoon departers.
It’s also a great time for Christmas tree deliveries.
All included (though not all pictured) there was a brief moment with eight of us hanging around admiring this tree.
Lizzie made this ornament to hang up on the tree.
We’ve had an air conditioner hiding in this room for a little bit that definitely wasn’t needed and so we finally took it out.
Worknight.
Elijah trying to solve HDP.
Emily, a friend from our Boston days in town for the holidays, getting taught by Justin how to make a pour-over.
If you’re someone who hasn’t yet had a chance to pop by, it should be noted that not everyone here is a hugger (though most of us are), nor does everyone who is a hugger hug everyone back every time. These two are semi-hugging, but it’s because they’ve been friends for a long time.
And these two are in some kind of romantic embrace, but it’s because they have been starring in a rom-con spinoff. This is a rare crossover episode.
River came by to pick up some stuff before a trip he’s taking back east with Drew.
If you have been looking for a billboard to climb, we heartily recommend the billboard next to Little Owl Coffee Roasters. Very low to the ground, with lots of stuff to hang onto.

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