Year: 2001

bookmark_borderWeekender

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Wooossshhhhh. So that was the weekend. Saturday, in-laws, haircut, curry at friends. Sunday, my parents, shopping and two Indiana Jones movies (they just don’t make them like that anymore…). Back to Monday already…

Funny atmosphere of people getting on with their day-to-day work without really being too sure of where it will lead. Maybe it’s just me…

Personally still knackered, sleeping way too much, but helping someone smile on Friday helped lift me, and I’m not being too pessimistic about any warning signs. One advantage I have now, is that I can recognise those signs easily, and deal with them much earlier on.

bookmark_borderNail meet hammer

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speechtherapy In my current professional climate, six hits the nail on the head, ok so my ‘disorder’ (hey shouldn’t you Yanks have come up with a PC, positive outlook word for that?) is slightly different, but it’s staying where it should, some I’m a happy chappy…

bookmark_borderSplat

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Crazy hectic times ahead. I would presume I am on hiatus. The company news we got has thrown everything up in the air, and it feels very like it did when I first joined here, kinda exciting, infuriating and scary at the same time. Admittedly there are slightly scary undertones, but I’ve been there before, and at least this time I won’t get made redundant, no way am I starting off down that spiral again.

Also managed to, unadvertantly, play some office politics. Now I hate these, stupid games, people making sure they are in first with their version/take on things, etc etc, but I did manage to pull an Ace from my sleeve when I thought it was the Joker. That’s the problem with office politics, if you are honest and upfront ALL THE TIME, then there’s no real way you can be undone. Simple really.

Also glad to see that some of the major gossip from Dublin hasn’t yet made it out for general consumption, although I’m sure people have their suspicions.

bookmark_borderDublin

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What a top weekend. So much to say that I can’t, so much I saw that I shouldn’t have, so much I did that… ahem anyway…

Dublin was a really nice city, very relaxed laidback kinda attitude, like they’re not trying to be cool or anything, it’s just the way they are, and if you don’t like it, well you know where the road out of town is (but make sure you have a pleasant journey). Add in the fact that the company paid to fly me and the rest of the company over and put us up in a hotel (or should that be put up with us in a hotel), and in return only asked for a shortish day listening to presentations… well who would say no!

Still no egg sandwiches for me…

bookmark_borderChanges afoot

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“No I can’t say”
“Pleeaaassseee”
“No – wish I could but I really can’t”
I hate that, almost as much as I hate it when you eventually find out what that person wouldn’t tell you and realise that when they said that you probably didn’t want to know, they were right.

Edinburgh was good, and well timed (even if I didn’t realise it at the time). Met up with a good friend, so good to be able to pick up where we left off, chatting like it hasn’t really been 6 months since we last saw each other.

Flying to Dublin tomorrow and staying until Sunday. So I’ll see you then, and yes I’ll give you all the gossip – even if I already have a good idea what the main topic of conversation will be…

bookmark_borderI'm off

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Dublin on Thursday. Edinburgh tomorrow (should be v.interesting if it works out). That’s about it for the moment. See you later.