Further tragedy

Of course, with tragic inevitability I missed out on watching Victoria Sponge and Cupcake - since I'm still at work.

Well past my bedtime

Much excitement tonight, as I am going to see the beautiful Victoria Sponge and her Cupcake perform in a heat of Drag Idol. However, the heat starts at 11pm. On a schoolnight. These caberet ladies obviously have robust constitutions....

Desk germs

Is it a boy thing? I've just moved into a desk previously occupied by a bloke and it's all coffee stains and sticky fingerprints. Hasn't he heard of DESK GERMS??? There's an urban myth going round that it is healthier to eat your lunch off the toilet seat than your desk. Not my desk, of course - thanks to those ponky sterilising desk wipes.

And don't get me started on EAR GERMS. When are they going to invent a mobile phone that doesn't get greasy ear germs when someone's been using it? Of course, my desk phone got the ponky wipe treatment too.

(not that I plan on eating lunch off the phone, you understand)

Another quandry

It's annual appraisal time of year here at Beancount Towers (cue lots of buzzword bingo - being "proactive" and "dynamic" - honestly, if you read my form you'd think I was running the whole show).

This has given me a quandry:
Someone I work for wants to get promoted, but is facing a difficult time. He's asked me to email him some feedback which he can use as evidence as to why he should get promoted. To be honest, I don't enjoy working for him but he's a nice enough person outside of work. What to write?

Secret pleasures

My friend Karina has a very normal looking black leather handbag, which has a peacock-green satin lining that nobody ever sees. Don't things like that give you a little thrill of pleasure? Like wearing matching underwear.

(Unless you're the kind of person who always wears matching underwear and thinks this is normal)

The green jacket quandry

I'm very proud of my most excellent lime green jacket. I think: "Ah, Jane! Dancing with style and skill along the knife-edge of daring! Teamed with black trousers and a black and white striped (regatta-style, if you please) top, you are the very pinnacle of business (and non-iron) chic"

Everyone else says:
"Jane, you're looking very green this morning"