Wednesday, January 19, 2005
She's a Star
8.10 On Time
As I am no longer allowed to read blogs during my lunch hour I am at something of a loose end. I have made half-hearted online enquires about holiday availability, read the Guardian, voted in an unrepresentative BBC poll and I've still got 10 minutes left.
So, stupified on salad, I'm gazing around the office.
Leanne is on lunch and out somewhere on mysterious errands, but, if she wasn't she would be pretending to be plugged into her ZenMicro as ThesaurusBoy has been thumping the desk and tearing his hair out over somebody's Internet Rogue Dialing problem for the last 30 minutes. Charlie is using her authoritative but reassuring voice with someone else, who has exactly the same problem, and will have them off the line inside 5 minutes. LovelyTeamMember is leafing through a low-end lifestyle magazine with an expression which fluctuates between disgust and quiet despair. PerfectTeamMember is suffering silent anguish over how to break the news that his interview on Monday went really, really well and he will soon be leaving us.
WalkingMedicalEncyclopedia Colleague has returned from sick leave and, in an act of pleasing symmetry, SmellyColleague texted in sick this morning.
Ah, time's up.
Back on the phones.
Cherrywood Eyes - Lorien
Eden - 10,000 Maniacs
Get Up - REM
Up With People - Lambchop
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away - Grandaddy
Your Time Starts Now - Cinerama
Beaten To The Punch - Elvis Costello
Do You Remember The First Time - Pulp
Police & Thieves - Junior Murvin
As I am no longer allowed to read blogs during my lunch hour I am at something of a loose end. I have made half-hearted online enquires about holiday availability, read the Guardian, voted in an unrepresentative BBC poll and I've still got 10 minutes left.
So, stupified on salad, I'm gazing around the office.
Leanne is on lunch and out somewhere on mysterious errands, but, if she wasn't she would be pretending to be plugged into her ZenMicro as ThesaurusBoy has been thumping the desk and tearing his hair out over somebody's Internet Rogue Dialing problem for the last 30 minutes. Charlie is using her authoritative but reassuring voice with someone else, who has exactly the same problem, and will have them off the line inside 5 minutes. LovelyTeamMember is leafing through a low-end lifestyle magazine with an expression which fluctuates between disgust and quiet despair. PerfectTeamMember is suffering silent anguish over how to break the news that his interview on Monday went really, really well and he will soon be leaving us.
WalkingMedicalEncyclopedia Colleague has returned from sick leave and, in an act of pleasing symmetry, SmellyColleague texted in sick this morning.
Ah, time's up.
Back on the phones.
Cherrywood Eyes - Lorien
Eden - 10,000 Maniacs
Get Up - REM
Up With People - Lambchop
Everything Beautiful Is Far Away - Grandaddy
Your Time Starts Now - Cinerama
Beaten To The Punch - Elvis Costello
Do You Remember The First Time - Pulp
Police & Thieves - Junior Murvin
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