Day One of tube strike survived. Roll on Day Two.

Apparently, it's been suspended according to Yahoo! but I don't believe them.

Oh and thank you to Tube Lines for not following Metronet thanks to which the Northern Line's running. Love you guys!

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

I'm at my parents. It's work harder than the one at Bloomberg:)))

Today this was the most read and most sent (meaning people forwarded it to others) news story on the Bloomberg terminal:

London Erects Mobile Hospital as Bankers Celebrate (Update1)Our clients are investment bankers. It seems that that story seemed more interesting to them than e.g. "U.S. Stocks Fall on Slumping Factory Demand ( Read more... )

a spooky thing happened to me. i bought the Prophet by Kahlil Gibran. a lot of people recommended it to me but i never really got to buying it until today.

this is a sentence from the Introduction:

No doubt Gibran wanted the book published in September, because, as we read on the first page, it is in the month of Ielool, or September, that the ( Read more... )

i'm a footie psychic. i predicted our guys win, England's loss and now Italy's win!! so weird ( Read more... )

come on, England! i'm hungry and need to go shopping so this match has to finish soon!

wooooo! our guys won the Control Risks footie tournament. they kicked Head Office's arses big time. we're all very excited about it! they were absolutely the best and all HO departments are jealous. in fact they all buggered off to a pub without even telling us.

blimey, it was much better than the WorldCup!


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today Wayne, the quietest person in the whole company, came up to me and asked: "Anna, what's going on? you've been quiet recently". now that surprised me because i think i spent a lot of time today chatting to people about randon things because a lot of people want to chat to me. the Editorial Desk is always so quiet so no point in going there ( Read more... )

the cute guy got the job. he must have been jobless because he started today. well, actually he's just got back from Germany so that's probably why. he is indeed good-looking but he graduated like a year or so ago so i'm not interested. still good to have a cute guy under one roof, who, i think, thinks i'm cute. today when Patrick was introducing ( Read more... )