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Today, I witnessed the office pancake race - for Shrove Tuesday. There was meant to be a picture here, but I first of all tried to copy it to my work computer; I got it onto my PC okay, but then realised I'd accidentally taken it off the memory card; I then intended to e-mail it to myself and remembered only as I was walking out of the building ( Read more... )

I could not believe the awful journey I had into work this morning; it was fine until the place where I usually change trains, then I saw the platform was packed out. I couldn't even get onto the first train, although lots of people attempted to do it even though there was no space ( Read more... )

I really don't understand some peoples' lack of manners, and I saw tonight an unpleasant, rude woman who I've not seen in a while. Basically, she seems to think she has the right over everyone else to get on the trains first, and likes to position herself right in front of others who are waiting on the platform and other things. She's about 50, and ( Read more... )

Someone I didn't know in another department called me this morning to ask for some information. When I was in the middle of explaining stuff she started saying something else into the phone, so I asked, "pardon?", because I didn't understand what this had to do with our conversation, and suddenly I realised she was talking to someone on her end - ( Read more... )

The big news for this week so far is that I have a job interview now - on Monday 30 January, giving me just over a week to prepare; I’m excited - this could be a really good promotion for me ( Read more... )

I hate crowded situations, and it makes me really nervous - especially if everyone is moving really slowly, it only takes one person crash into me or appear to nudge me, and it makes me really annoyed because I just want to get out of there and feel that I'm getting in the way ( Read more... )