what if there is no notice board?

In the new job, all very exciting.

I am working in a building that is owned by the Ethical Property Company. There are cute perspex signs next to all the light switches reminding us to "switch off" (if only), and up until recently there was a sauna on the ground floor. Why this is ethical, I don't know. But it's now gone. Maybe because someone asked why it was ethical. Damn fool.

Anyway, everyone in the building has some kind of social touchy feely remit. Last week I had the strange experience of holding the door open for a man I'd heard talking about Burma on Radio 4 that morning.

I'm thinking some of these people might be up for a prayer meeting at some point each week. A reflection which scares me with its righteousness... In all honesty I'm just crap at praying on my own: I wake up, I feel guilty, I start praying again and next thing you know it's morning. Or I've missed my stop.

However, it's all very well being holier than though in thine head, but actually asking around is a whole different kettle of carp. There's no communal noticeboard and I'm on the ground floor so I haven't wandered past any other offices. Also, I don't want my new work colleagues to think I'm a Jesus Freak. DC Talk would be ashamed, but then I never liked that song much anyway.

Emphatic word here being 'Freak'. They know I'm a Christian. (Albeit one who gets thrown out of the Griffin). But suggesting a building-wide prayer meeting on a regular basis - especially by desk to desk petition - might be considered unusual.

Having come from a Christian organisation, which was at one extreme, it is unnerving being at a different extreme; not one with profit emblazoned on employees hearts within a big firm environment, but one where people are kind of earnest, without a religion emblazoned on their logo.

Perhaps I am not giving either the building's strangers or my workplace colleagues the benefit of the doubt. Or perhaps it is too early to talk religion, at least the practical kind.