I’m very very hungover this morning. I got home around 4am from a party in town. We got an email in work yesterday morning saying that if the weather that was forecast did appear, the office would close a couple of hours early to let everyone get home. Of course the weather didn’t at all and the followup email later dryly noted this. Then said seen as everyone had been thinking about having a early start to the weekend we’d split the difference and close early anyway. Much chatting during the day had lead us to think they’d do this anyway. For the simple sake of a little good will. It’s funny how little things like this one add up to all the other little things and inspire some loyalty. It must be very hard to provide this kind of inspiration in p…
I really don’t know where I’m going with this by the way. It’s just we talked about this a lot yesterday and I wanted to see if I could figure something out on it. I’m not sure I can but I’m going to keep typing anyway.
Anyway like I was saying, it must be very hard to provide this kind of inspiration in particular at senior management levels where (unfortunately) more often than not there isn’t a positive view from down below. That in itself is a shame but it opens a gap and I guess makes it easier for someone to put some effort in by sending the emails like above and knowing everyone’s name and what’s going on and all the rest. It’s funny sometimes when our COO can provide me with an update on my project and always seems to know way more about it than the lower level senior management around me.
This is really going off track.
So anyway we got out early and went to the pub. There was a birthday party in town later that evening for one of the girls. I wasn’t planning on going along, it was to be a late night and the club wasn’t to my taste. But some people that I don’t get to see or go out with very often were going along and so I off I went.
And it was an excellent night. I have a whole load of photos from it but I can’t seem to find my camera lead right now so they’ll have to follow early next week when I get the one on my desk. I had a really really good night, suffering for it today of course, fucking happy hour cocktails. I think my wallet is suffering for it too. Two drinks by the end of the night was £15. I was going to balk loudly at this but I was more interested in getting the two drinks.
So anyway booked a couple more tickets yesterday. Kings of Leon in the Hammersmith Apollo in June and JJ72 in somewhere I’ve never heard of in a couple of months time. Also booked to go see Turner, Monet, Whistler on the day I have booked off to recover from the Camden Crawl. In other ticket news I have right now the physical tickets for U2 in Dublin. They arrived yesterday morning and man did that make me happy 🙂
Today I have spent catching up on the latest 24 and Lost. The latter being excellent. Probably this season’s best episode.Yunjin Kim I’m shortly going to go and read some comics and generally hide for a while. Then tonight is the pub (ugh) for my flatmate’s birthday drinks. Not not not having much.
It looks like I’m going to be working in Dublin for 3 days this week. Will tie a weekend into that aswell. Then a day or two in Bristol. Which I’ve wanted to do for a long time. I really don’t like Bristol as a city, it’s probably quite nice but commuting there for so long really killed it off for me. It killed off other things too and I’m never going to get into a situation like that again. It was a killer. I guess I don’t do so much with my time at the weekends but the regular 6 hour round trips on a shitty bus and missing the Friday nights and being so tired and so demoralised about it wasn’t fun. Of course that was all just the travel logistics.
Around the Sun has grown on me so much. I’m going with Electron Blue and Final Straw on repeat over and over. It’s probably just the hangover but I don’t want to hear anything but them. I even have my headphones on and the volume pushed up.
Really not with it today.