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Work, pigs and Brodie

Thursday, January 31 2008 01:51 UTC

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Sometimes, in the middle of a conversation with a bunch of co-workers, I'll suddenly become aware that the group of people I'm talking to all have a different accent to me. It's happening less frequently now, but when it does occur it feels like being forcibly detached from the situation and looking in from the outside. In many ways it's quite pleasant because it feels like a little achievement that we're in this position. The other time that it occurs is on entering the office in the morning. Hearing even one voice say "morning Martin!" or "hey Martin!" in an American accent is still an odd, but flattering feeling; how do these people know my name ?
Apart from that, work is bollocks. Not my work especially, just work in general. Being forced to sit in a hot, fluorescent-lit cube for 40 hours a week is a pretty depressing waste of a life. It's been getting me down quite a lot recently but I have to keep reminding myself that it's only temporary. So, while I'm feeling good, here is a list of reasons I should stop bloody moaning:

Barak Obama is doing quite well, and the Republican candidates are all obviously so mental that it's unlikely we'll end up with another George W Gump in the Whitehouse. Hmm, the triumph of optimism over experience perhaps...
Last week the banking arm of my company came in, armed with bagels and doughnuts, and tried to persuade us to open bank accounts with them. OK, that sounds pretty bollocks, and for course it is. But they also had a raffle in which I won an iPod shuffle, much to my colleagues annoyance. They also gave me two small, plastic, fat, pig MegaBank keyrings. These are as cheap and crappy as they are appropriate; banks using fat pigs as mascots ?
There are some exceptionally cool people at work.
We may now own a house.
Good food and drink - in large portions.
No sirens driving past every two minutes of the day and night.

Those of you that know Brodie will be horrified to know he's currently in Intensive Care after a serious assault. However, his prognosis is good. Please contact me if you need to contact him or his family.
Current sounds: Tom Petty
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