This morning, I was working away quietly at my desk in our new office when I was suddenly engulfed by a cloud of sawdust. Perhaps "cloud" is the wrong word - it was a gentle sprinkling of wood shavings from the ceiling, but it was enough to cause a slight shock (and cause my hair and shirt to develop a rare case of xylodandruff). Looking at what could have caused such doom from on high, we couldn't see any obvious problems - I sit more or less underneath a skylight and a storm drain pipe, which would be far worse.

When it happened again, though, it appeared that it was the skylight causing the shower - that's only guess that I have. There's a wooden border surrounding it at the top and they're doing something to the conduits and possibly the roof today, but there's nothing that's obviously making it vibrate or otherwise perturbing it. Nevertheless, taking a suggestion from over instant messages that was meant to be a joke but that I thought was a work of perverted genius, we now have a temporary solution in place until the building people can come down to look for themselves.