lying alone with my head on the phone

[extemporanea]

Aargh. Technically I love structure, I'm a genre theorist and administer degree rules for a living. But this new boss exemplifies the particular kind of adherence to structure which is all about systems for their own sake, and which manages to divorce itself entirely from the human realities they're supposed to shape. She works in a weird

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[pinkthulhu]

I don't know if you saw the news about digestive biscuits.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/weird-news/chocolate-digestives-revelation-could-change-the-face-of-biscuit-eating-forever-9219218.html

but only on its buttered side

[extemporanea]

That is a truly marvellous article, thank you! I love the tone of straight-faced ridiculous, and the fact that it's predicated on a perfectly serious assumption that the British take their biscuits really seriously.

I have never eaten a Hobnob, although I must confess to a certain positive curiously because (a) oats and chocolate, and (b) Sherlock fanfic, which posits the Holmes/Watson duo as Hobnob addicts with amazing frequency. Fanfic makes me try new food, music, poetry and movies distressingly often, which I suppose is a logical side effect of people writing about things they really love.

Congratulations

[bronchitikat]

You seem to have imported a New-Style Professional Manager - ie: one who knows a lot about the Theory of Management as such, but little about how it should be applied to specific contexts, if at all! Such have been plaguing British, and I suspect American, industry for years. Unfortunately, apart from the sack, there is little you can do about this.

As for the orientation of chocolate biscuits, a few moments careful thought will show that they are indeed enrobed with chocolate on the underside. I suspect the paper, or even Christopher Hooton, was trying madly to fill an allotted number of column inches to an ever nearing deadline. But I suspect that's journalism anyhow!

Re: Congratulations

[extemporanea]

I fear I read "the sack" in the Carrollian sense of suppression - i.e. perpetrator headfirst into the sack, which is then upended and sat upon by the officers of the court. I'm possibly tempted.

My chocolate digestives are actually chocolate-filled, as I tend to sandwich two together as a strategy to keep my fingers unstreaked with chocolate which is less than solid state under our African sun. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it...

Re: Congratulations

[bronchitikat]

"Sack" - there now, what a thing to do. Perhaps followed by a quick trip to the beach/a clifftop? Or shouldn't I tempt you further?

Of course you have to eat your chocolate digestives chocolate side together in the kind of temperatures you get. I mean, how otherwise can you eat them at work? Chocolate and crumb covered keyboards, paperwork etc, anyone?

Ultimate Biscuit challenge...

[veratiny]

Hob nobs are far too sweet…and have a nasty habit of breaking into soggy chunks more swiftly causing me to have to thrust my fingers into the tea in a most undignified fashion to retrieve them--for me there is only one chocolate digestive: McVities dark chocolate. Alas when it comes to my ultimate favourite morning tea snack, McVities do not supply Jaffa Cakes to the Australian market…or at least not in the reliable way my addiction requires. No other jaffa cake achieves the ultimate crispy yet soft cakes that McVities do--effortlessly.

Also the sleeping dilemma…I feel it (10-stich gash on left shoulder)…your description it uncanny…I'm an inward facing left-side sleeper. We had to switch sides of the bed to accommodate wound…so not only do my organs feel displaced, but I've had the worst nightmares all week--left-side of the bed dreams. Creatures of habit…indeed!