Office Politics March 20, 2009

I have been working on the departments intranet. Its been a long slog, weeks of fiddling about with margins only to have a numpty mess it up and have to re-do it all. Its a fairly simple site that should be easy to maintain but I’m proud of it. Its nice having done something of value (and tangible). To entertain myself whilst doing this and not banging my head against the wall because I’m stuck listening to an American country music radio station, I made up a few quotes to go in the header. Ok so its unprofessional and I really should have learnt my lesson from chair-gate but bloody hell,  some people here are right pencil pushers.  Let me explain.

 

My dept is split between two different sites. Theres the main one which I’m at, and theres the other one which has about 5 people in it. I’ve only met them twice (theres one person I haven’t met) and they’re a bit weird. I decided to do up the intranet and got the go-ahead. I created a page and in order for it to exist I had to publish it. So I chose the page on our site which I thought was the least popular and put up a link for test page. This linked to the new home page which the rest of the new site linked to.  I thought it would be cool to have a quote related to our dept as a little sub-title (there’s  a quote on the old intranet) but didn’t like the old one so just made something up to fill the gap. This evolved to dafter and dafter quotes on other pages from the likes of Obama, Stalin, Genghis Khan, John McCain and others. The quotes tended to be related to the page they were on and were so cutting and fantastically satirical the writing crew from Have I Got News For You would have had kittens. Most people saw the quotes. They laughed. Many didn’t get them. Then, 4 weeks of nothing. I had done all I could and was now waiting on somebody else. Death. Stillness. An empty a void. My world was blank. Until today. Somebody from the other site went on the intranet, onto the page no one goes on and clicked test page. They saw the site and everything on it. And what did they do? Did they  think:

 

Oh cool, new site? The one that our team did in 2003 (I’m being serious) looks like it was made on Paint (I’m still being serious  – it was) compared to this one. Wow cool. Oh look daft quotes, lets email the other team and let them know.

 

If you know me (and if you’ve read this far then you probably do) you’ll have figured out this is a little game I tend to play in my rants. Ask a question, answer it how I would like it be answered and then have the truth laid out full throttle on the following lines. Here it comes:

 

No. They did not think this. Instead they rang (so archaic) our site, bitched and complained that we’re lucky it was them who saw it and brought it up rather than someone senior and then who knows what forms and paperwork would have to be filled out. And in order to complete those forms they’d probably have to carry out a risk assessment on how likely it is that someone will use the pen as a weapon in a Jason Bourne stylee and how poisonous the ink is. Nevermind that those quotes have been sat up there for 4 weeks without anybody noticing (and yes I am going to choose this moment to applaud myself on choosing a dull enough page to publish on). Its not that I hate she complained, I’m glad I took the new site down (minus rib tickling quotes) because the longer it was up there the more likely it was someone with something up their arse saw it. To be honest I should have removed the quotes when I stopped working on it but it didn’t enter my mind. Its the way she complained I hate. It wasn’t ‘I dont think the quotes are appropriate. ‘ Or even better, an e-mail. Its how self righteous she was about it and how long she went on for. I don’t think the news has reached the head yet, and it won’t reach the deputy until mon because he’s off so I don’t know how they’ll react (especially after chair-gate…) but I’m hoping they’ll be on my side.

 

The worst part is we have an away day next month, I wonder how the other site will treat me then…

Super Duper Quick Update February 18, 2009

What I’ve been up to:

• Being ill

• Spreading my illness unto others (and a *cough* upon you sir)

• Started an arabic class where everything is going over my head. It’s too hard. I will persevere IA.

• Tried building up the courage to ask mum about a holiday and chickening out every time

• Become a caffeine addict

• Bought some books and not read any of them. Can’t wait to do it though.

• Ignoring calls/texts/e-mails

• Finally finished Halo 3 again (heyy this is for my xbox, doing it on my bros doesn’t count)

• Started Tomb Raider

• Finally started my re-jig of the intranet at work. I’m only halfway through but everyone seems to be loving it. All I’ve done is find a template (that was already in the software) and edited the terrible content that was on the old one. Even the webmaster (what a cool title) was impressed. I’ve tried fessing up but…it feels so good

• Tried to stay out of overdraft but its not working. One hour at the Trafford Centre spoilt it. I now need to return a scarf I got from Fat Face and my attempt at regaining 18quid was thwarted today because the one in town doesn’t exist anymore. Bloomin ridiculous. Now I have to make a trip to TC just to get a refund. Prob cost me 20 to do that!

• Unintentionally pulled some amazing pranks at work

• Read other peoples blogs, its nice but makes you feel guilty

End Gaza Massacre Demo 10.01.09 January 12, 2009

Up and out by 6:15am, home and in PJ’s at 11:30pm.  Now that’s what i call a day.

Our coach was organised by a group called Mancs Against Tanks which is a fantastic name and it left only 5mins after it was supposed to. We were all shocked and very pleasantly surprised.  I was with my bro and 2 of his friends. It was fine but they didn’t really talk to me, I made an effort but if they wanted to be like that thats their problem. The organisers on the coach went around and chatted to everyone, the amount of time and energy they devoted to  the causes they believed in was incredibly admirable. Some were even going to counter rally the pro-Israel demo in Manc the following morning, I knew I’d be in bed! Everyone talked about a meeting on Thursday in Rochdale (My brother went but I didn’t, I wish I had) which involved several different Palestinian groups and was also attended by Paul Rowen and Simon Danczuk (Labour representative for Rochdale), apparently it turned into a bit of a farce because the politicans turned it into a debate which it shouldn’t have been but it was supposed to have been vey entertaining (and enlightening).We arrived around 12 or so and stepped out into a bitterly cold Hyde Park. Stalls from all sorts of groups were set up, TV crews had cameras and people just milled, you could feel a sense of expectation and suspense in the air.

As you can see Blair made an appearance. Nice.

After a quick half of keema paratha we decided it was time to be on our way to wherever the rally started i.e. head off into the general direction that other people were heading into. The man below was stood in the middle of the huge crowd, holding his sign, immovable. It was quite powerful. It reminded me of Waltz with Bashir. Can’t remember if i blogged about that but its a film told from the viewpoint of an Israeli soldier. In it he describes feeling like a Nazi as Palestinain refugees who were supposed to have been protected by Israelis were murdered.

Pretty soon we were surrounded by people as far as you could see, it got little uncomfortable being pressed up against people but it was ok. Various people spoke (including our very own Paul Rowen!), chants were chanted and journalists climbed up trees to take pics. We were treated to a rap by some guy called LowKey who rapped about Palestine (chanting long live gaza felt very uniting…and deafening). It snowed v lightly and it was absolutley freezing but it was finally time to move. We were told the march was going to start, not to congregate at the Israeli Embassy which we were going to pass and end up at the end of Kensington High Street for further talks.

Of course people congregated at the Embassy which you kind of expect. A few people had climbed up the gates and were stood there like monkeys achieving nothing whatsoever. Some people threw shoes over which was quite funny until I realised there was police in the compound. I saw an American flag briefly then smelt burning afterwards, not sure if it was the flag they burnt or placards but it was daft either way. We milled a little but moved on as there was no point staying. The street became a normal high street with shops on, the pavements were barricaded but we saw a Starbucks with a smashed window (it got trashed later on in the day). There was also staff inside it which was quite sad. Most of the side streets were blocked off to prevent people trying to sneak back to the embassy. After walking for a while we came to a standstill. Someone had a drum was drumming insanely with people jumping and chanting which was cool but it turned a bit nasty. We were crammed v tightly and not moving at all. I’m not sure what happened but there was a line of policemen and vans blocking a large side street with people shouting ’shame on you’ at them (I asked what this was about, its not always directed at the police themselves, but rather the government which makes sense, I thought it was a bit shady shouting at coppers for the sake of it). Someone was on top of a telephone box and there was police on top of a building nearby taking pictures. The stupid stupid thing was people just stood there congregating and shouting. I heard a firework go off and people booing. We tried to move but it was a very slow process. Some organizers were running around shouting ‘MOVE KEEP MOVING!’ but it was futile. When we eventually got past them all it was empty and we weren’t far off the second rally point. Muppets. We heard a few more speakers including a Palestinian who told us all we were Hamas and that they had weapons and were gonna fight back which was funny and a little uncomfortable. He also told us they’d managed to bring back 11 students by boat without any Israelis knowing and then told us when their next mission was which was a bit daft! We could see George Galloway on the screen but unfortunately it was time for us to get back to the coach. We tried farting about for as long as we could but we missed him. Although we got back to the coach on time we were kept waiting for another hour as people hadn’t turned up. Apparently it got hairy at the Embassy and the riot police had to come out and control things. It meant people at the back couldn’t get past and had to get the Tube. It was annoying because we were all dying for a wee and it was bloomin freezing (-3 according to a billboard). Ended up setting off around 5:45. Seemed to take forever to get back, the most annoying bit was in Manc city centre. A Chris Brown concert had just finished and it took us ages to get through all the traffic, bloody teenybopper scallies.

It was a really cool day, you feel inspired and positive about life when you see so many people (the general consensus seems to be between 50 and 100,000) present at an event for the same reason. In all honesty the march won’t achieve an end to what’s happening but the fact we’re expressing our right to free speech is important and we have to do something.

George Galloway is coming to Rochdale on the 25th and is at Saffron’s on the 26th. I’m going on the 25th so come on people I’ll even give you a lift (unless you’re JTM, you have a car).

Mishy’s Menagerie January 11, 2009

I received my shipment of plasticine just in time for the new year. I have many colours but also a huge chunk of black plasticine. that I thought would be good for eyes and animals like zebras/cows.sheep. Unfortunately I forgot to order extra white, doh. Its just like the plasticine at school, v easy to mould. The only negative is using it with other colours as they can merge and become one without being able to separate them after. I don’t have any brown left now, boo. Anyways my menagerie is looking good. Let me introduce you to it’s new members:

We have Magnus (MK III because his head kept falling off and ended up getting really big and out of proportion with his body) standing with the help of an Xmas tree, Next to him is the cheeky Terence who isn’t only sticking his tongue out at you, he’s looking into your eyes too, Raoul (a gift),  Fenton who we all know and love and last but not least Cassius the depts unofficial mascot who has own comic strip and dispenses useful hints & tips…along with threats of casual violence (“Register your aduits or I’ll snip your bloody legs off!”).

I also have a personal vendetta against the cacti on our windowsill however someone pointed out it was as though they were sticking two fingers up to nature. They make me chuckle now and I don’t mind them so much anymore.

Film-a-thon January 6, 2009

Warning: some of the trailers are a bit spoiler-ific.

Australia

Took my sisters to see this – first (and probably) last time I’ve done this, bloomin expensive!  we went to Chiquitos too, we should def go there, there’s loads of veggie options and it was really yummy too.  At over 2.5hours Australia was a bit of a bum-acher so prepare yourself for that i.e. have a wee before. There’s a point about halfway in where you think its ended, everythings been wrapped up, the battle is won, the guy gets the girl and there’s a party. But before you can so much as lift yourself from your seat it continues. Into a completely different film. That moment where it shifts is a little awkward and could have been handled better. Another negative point is the amount of green screen used, I thought it looked really obvious, one minute you had gorgeous scenery, the next there was the same shot with the sane actor but it looked incredibly fake. Bit disappointing. The chemistry between Nicole Kidman and Hugh Jackman was fantastic, they made a good couple but what happened in the second half was predictable and a little rubbish actually. You still end up cheering for them though and you’re left with a big smile on your face. Great old fashioned epic that has to be watched at the cinema to be fully appreciated.

The Notebook

On IMDB there’s a section at the bottom that has films which it thinks you’d be interested in (it doesn’t just read your mind, it’s based on the film you’re currently on the site for). The Notebook has appeared on this list many many times and I’ve heard good (screechy teen girls on messageboards) things about it. You may recall I was in the mood for a tearjerker so settled down for this. And I have to say…meh. Maybe it’s coz I was out of tearjerker mode by the time I sat down for it. Maybe its because I couldn’t help but think Atonement, which is the English and far superior version of The Notebook managed to achieve the same thing but in a more convincing way. Don’t get me wrong, The Notebook is ok if you’re in the mood for a romantic film but I don’t think it’s anything special. The modern day narration/story is what annoyed me and got my cynical head back on. Parts of it just didn’t work and were unbelievable. Bar a few scenes I don’t think it was necessary. The end was nauseating, seriously, the writer must have been in GCSE English mode for it, absolutely terrible. If you’re after something that’ll make you weep buckets then Atonement would better serve your needs. If you want a lighter version that’ll make you all gooey inside without feeling the need to slit your wrists there’s The Notebook (but where’s the fun in that?).

27 Dresses

Jane is always the bridesmaid and never the bride. 27 times in fact. She’s in love with her boss but can’t do anything about it and then her little sis turns up and steals his heart. Meanwhile journalist Kevin is after her affections but isn’t getting anywhere. Melodrama ensues and there’s tears of heartache-which-turn-to-joy-at-the-end. Its the usual fluffy guff but it’s done well. Really funny in parts and he’ll hate that I’ve done this but my bro enjoyed it more than me and the sis in law did I think. Katherine Heigl is really likeable in this and infuriatingly looks good even in the most hideous of bridesmaid dresses she’s had to endure over the years. You can see the end from a mile away but entertaining nevertheless.

Forgetting Sarah Marshall

Guy gets dumped by his girlfriend. Goes to Hawaii to get over the fact he’s just come out of a 5 year relationship and bumps into his ex who’s not only holidaying there but staying in the same hotel. With her new fella. It’s a bit crude and contains quite a bit of nudity so it’s not one of them to watch with your family but its actually very funny and you feel for the characters involved. I love it when they take the mick out of Russell Brand’s (ahh git!) accent. The puppet show at the end is genius.

Pineapple Express

I needed a silly film to watch and downloaded this because it’s on the front page of Play. Absolutely hilarious. It’s daft as anything but if its laughs you want then this film provides by the bucketful. It starts off a bit rubbish but once it gets going, fantastic. Red’s the best: You just got killed by a Daewoo Lanos Motherfudger!!!

P.S. I Love You

Not amazing, nice girly film that’s quite slow paced but a heart warmer. Kinda film you need a cold night (plenty of em now!), a blanket & hot choc/coffee for.

Yes Man

Based on Danny Wallace’s book. I actually had very very low hopes for the film as the trailer looked crap, the only similar thing between the book & the film is the premise – say yes to everything. EVERYTHING. I thought it would be a daft Jim Carrey flick, I don’t know why but the thought of one sickened me, maybe its because I thought the book deserved more. I was however very pleasantly surprised. Jim Carrey’s toned it down and plays it more straight. I love love love the lead actress in it, she’s v quirky and has a fabulous wardrobe (I can’t find that coat or hoodie anywhere jtm!) and the 2 make a sweet couple. There’s an absolutely ridiculous ’setback’ which our hero must overcome. I know this has to happen in films but they could have thought of a better one surely? Just plain daft. Anyway as I say, much better than expected but you could wait for this on DVD.

Dan In Real Life

Ahh Steve Carell, this man is a genius. Dan In Real Life is a lot more subtle to the usual Carell-fare we’re used to, think more along on the lines of Little Miss Sunshine. He stars as a widower with three daughters and the film takes place at a family reunion. He falls for a woman for the first time since his wife died however she turns out to be far from what he expected.  Dan’s parents house is gorgeous, it’s one of those rustic places in the middle of nowhere and the activities the family enjoy would seem really cheesy and off in another film but here it works perfectly and you wish you had that life. It actually feels really realistic however I found the ending a bit disappointing, maybe the cynic in me is starting to emerge again. On the whole it’s a very sweet film, something to watch with a cup of tea on a Sunday night methinks (But then aren’t all good films like that?).

2008 December 30, 2008

Its that time of year. Make your lists and sum the year up people!

Best Film: Dark Knight

Worst film: Wanted. What a load of cock.

Fave Album: Scotch Mist – Radiohead . It was released New Years eve 2007 but I didn’t listen to it until 2008 and its a live recording of their album that was released in 2007. Still counts as 08 though. So there. No? Ok Daft Punk – Alive then ( I know I know, its not 2008 but I can’t think of one)

Fave New Band: The Ting Tings.

TV: One Tree Hill. Yeah baby.

Best book: Thousand Splendid Suns. I remember having to stop reading it on the train because I was crying and looked like a weirdo.

Worst book: Corporate  Finance – Brealey/Myers/Allen

Best Game: Gears of War but Mario Party 8 comes a close second as its a fun game with friends.

Worst game: Raving Rabbids 2. So disappointing.

Best buy: Those silver sandals for 35, down fom 75. Woohoo. I accidentally just bought an Xbox as well. That’s quite cool.

Worst buy: USB lids. They didn’t fit my USB! Plus I found the original lid in the end. It was under the TV.

Favourite moment: Graduation. It was an all round brilliant day. Our London trip was quite fun too, kung fu-ing near Buckingham Palace. Hi-ya!

Worst moment: Walking out of International Finance. I knew I was allowed to fail it, and I knew I’d failed. But had I failed by the right amount?? Ended up passing it but still, scary times. I rememeber walking under the bridge thing near Cavendish and just wanting to cry. Moving out was quite sad too, me and ShuShu both wanted to do and say more to each other but we didn’t, we just ignored it and  moved

Weepy time December 30, 2008

I’m in the mood for weepy films. Let me fill you in: I watched Bring back…Fame on Saturday and although Fame’s not a weepy it, for some reason, it reminded me of them. Well actually no it got me to thinking how I’ve never watched Dirty Dancing or Flashdance and so I downloaded them. Whilst doing that for some reason, I forget now what (lots of forgetting and randomness = me), I also downloaded A Walk to Remember. AWTR was the first to complete and so I started watching it, halfway through I got tired and stopped. On Sunday we went to watch Australia (might review it tomorrow) and I accidentally started watching AWTR again when I got back even though I was shattered and should have been film-ed out.

You know what, it was sweet. It’s one of those films that had I been 13 I would have loved to bits. I read a review for it that said “The further you grow from adolescence, the harder it becomes to appreciate the appeal of teen romance movies” and it gave AWTR 2 stars out of 5. This is pretty much spot on (the review which made me a little sad and the rating) but at the same time, its not a bad 2 stars. Its not on the same level as say, Superman Returns (which is shiiittteee. And I watched that on my birthday so it prob got an extra star just for that) but its watchable. Sum it up: Bad boy. Good girl. Bad boy ends up spending time with good girl as punishment. Bad boy likes good girl. Bad boy becomes good boy. Likes good girl. Good girl likes good boy. They fall in love. But wait! They can’t be together! Oh hang on yes they can. Cry cry. Nice. Plus a lot of Switchfoot is played throughout so that’s cool. Anyways I was supposed to watch something tonight, started the day thinking it would be Dirty Dancing, got home and thought no I’ll watch The Notebook then thought Beaches which I’ve wanted to watch for yonkers years, you know its gonna be one of those films you really shouldn’t like but do…like Titanic, come on, you all cried and you liked it. Downloaded a whole host of stuff. By the time I’d eaten and done my other post it was too late to start anything so we’ll see tomorrow (5 day weekend coming up, yeah baby!). Here’s what I have though that fit in with my mood along with vv brief synopses (combination of mental update of films today and stuff I’ve collected for a while and never got round to):

The Notebook - Boy girl fall in love. Families don’t approve.

P.S. I Love You – Woman’s husband dies but he’s left her some post its telling her to get over it

Diving Bell and the Butterfly – Editor of Elle has a stroke and dictates his memoirs by blinking

Dirty Dancing - girl falls in love with dance teacher on holiday

Flashdance - part time welder, part time exotic dancer, she wants to do ballet or something.

Hairspray - fat girl wants to dance. No, not me.

Beaches - follows 2 best friends.

Terms of Endearment - mother & daughter look for love

Sophie’s Choice - Holocaust survivor tells her story.

The Pianist - Jewish pianist struggles to survive during WW2

Passion of Christ- Crucifixion. Not really in the mood for this but downloaded anyway.

Conspiracy - dramatisation of the conference where the Holocaust was devised. Remember seeing a scene back in 2001 and it still chills me today. Whole thing might be a bit intense.

Downfall - Hitlers final days (basically the Eid thing with proper subtitles)

Eden Lake - Couple get attacked lakeside. Horror. Arghh argghh.

The Orphanage - Spanish horror about a haunted, you guessed it, orphanage

King of Kong - documentary about people addicted to old-school arcade games, in particular Donkey Kong

Burn After Reading - Two dopes get their hands on the memoirs of a CIA agent.

Pineapple Express - Stoners on the run

Gomorra - Italian film about the mob

I know, its a bit of a random medley of films but I was going for weepy guilty pleasures which I really should have watched by now which slowly morphed to serious weepies, then suicidal ahh I can’t take life anymore bad so thought I’d cheer myself up with a comedy or 2. Now The Notebook HAS to be watched, I think I know the ending but hey ho. Has anyone seen any of these and can positively recommend them or do they have any other suggestions? Rememeber I’m going for ‘boohoo that’s soooo sad’ stroke ‘aww lifes good’ so if you give me something with no hope you have to also provide an upper. To be honest I’ll watch about 3 of these and then TV’ll start again but suggest anyway!

When I googled tearjerkers I found this clip, its so sad. Nearly got me going. Look at :32, 1:19, 1:54, 2:33 3:10  heartbreaking! Oh I’m off. I like a bit of With Arms Wide Open. Anyone can do that voice, its fun. I’m smiling now, woo! Ah I’m up I’m down I don’t know where I am. I’m tired, my shoulder hurts.

Secret Santa December 29, 2008

Ahh, t’has been a while (some of you lot could say the bloody same). You get treated to two updates, yeahhh, TWO.

I’ve found a way of getting around WordPress’s silly new way of not letting you make pics bigger, just make sure you have ‘link to pic’ selected in edit image.

This is the one where I was moaned at for not keeping my desk tidy, think I mentioned it last time but I didn’t have the pic then:

Wow, I didn’t realise that my self esteem is so low that even in my stick world I’m reduced to grovelling snot pot :s.

It all kicked off, I’m sure I’ve explained it to you by now, if not nevermind. This is how it went down in my mind.

New guards were hired to protect my goodies. Meet Moo-Cow & Whiskers (whose whiskers will be pulled off if I find so much as a dime bar missing, hmm perhaps I should have included this…):

For Secret Santa I was given plasticine. I knew I’d get this! But I thought somebody else was getting it me, I made a fool of myself when I said ‘Thank you X’ to her after and she said, ‘It wasn’t me.’ ‘Oh I know I know *THANKS ANYWAY* *big wink*’. Gah. Anyways they came with these really coool moulds in the lid, there’s an example of my first piece right here.

However…I don’t like these moulds. They restrict your creativity just like paint by numbers. Make what we dictate that you make! Nay! I shall make my own mini-beings!

Had my first attempt today after the Xmas break. I was completely inspired by Wallace & Gromit, I had ideas coming out of my bum. It did not go well. I give you Zombie-Rabbit.

This has been dumped on a colleagues desk who isn’t back until Monday. Who knows the state it’ll be in by then?

She asked for a monkey.

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I really like the idea of plasticine but I think I’m going to have to buy myself some of the good stuff. The one I have is a bit rubbish, its consistency isn’t v good, its too soft in my hands. After a little while it turns hard. After a weekend its solid. Thats fine if what I’ve made is good, it becomes permamant but its rubbish! It won’t stick at all. I need practice, I might go back to blu-tack (although I do have black plasticine on order from the net so that I can make eyes and more realistic cows/sheep etc).

Eid December 13, 2008

Wish I’d gotten this before Eid.

Shtamps!

Arty farty block December 13, 2008

Works been a bit all over the show. Had a 3 day week this week because of Eid so I was all out of sync. Just about back into it now (I think) and it’s the weekend, doh.

Been a bit sparse on the creative side, my juices are running out. I did two really really good stick pics but forgot to take pics and they’re in a different office now. Doubt I’ll be able to capture them, drat.

Someone had a go at me about the state of my desk. I know it was a joke but it got to me (I clear and polish  my desk every Monday morning, its only coz I had 2 days off that it seemed messier than normal! Plus it had a spelling mistake on it). Especially today when I saw the state of his. Arr. I was a bit miffed at it and so drew apic expressing this miffed-ness. Twas good but it was one of the ones I forgot to take a pic of.

This is the state of my desk Friday at half 4, clean and clear I’ll have you know (the flower looks awesome…but I have to keep taking it down because I’m using a new program and don’t know where the buttons in the top left corner are or what they do yet). Shushu made me a stickman out of pipe cleaners which has replaced blu tack stick-mishy. I was tempted to claim I had done it but didn’t.

The blu tack hasn’t been going well. Gravity took hold of my penguin and made it saggy. My butterfly turned into a dragonfly and then just died. I rolled it up before I remembered I should have taken a pic. Apologies.

I have also started a fact of the day on my whiteboard. Thursdays was: green grapes cause more accidents on the London Underground than banana skins and Friday: All the clocks in Pulp Fiction are set to 4:20.

This is last Friday at 5 past 4. Long story, all you need to know is it was painful, time consuming and cost me my blood, literally, I got 2 papercuts right before I was due for a manicure as well which didn’t help.

I need to be super geeky at work. I’m going to tag along to meetings that I’m not supposed to be at, help out with a work related blog which I will declare on Mon and spend the weekend brainstorming ideas on how to streamline processes at work. If anyone has any geeky/teachers pet like ideas that I can try out please let me know. Also if anyone has any experience of filling out forms on the web and has come across things they hate/find useful please drop it here as I’m starting to design web forms for work and it would be handy to know what to do/avoid.