The Last Week

So I realise that I have committed a cardinal sin of blogging in not posting anything for a week or so, and thereby depriving my myriad of fans amusement and entertainment.

Well this last week has been busy and interesting. Work is continuing to chug along, and yet as the team is minus a Head of three of us are carrying the Head of workload - this is great in terms of visability and new experiences, but at the moment it is also constant full on without any down time to think. I realised how tired I was this morning when I left my cell phone at home - haven't done that in years. On one hand it was strangely liberating to be sans phone, but at the same time I felt naked with out it. Having said that, being called at gone 9pm to do with work kind of sucked but more on that briefly.

We are hosting some visitors from the Ukraine, and they arrive tomorrow morning. Unfortunately the people I was liasing with over there had forgotten to pass on the full details of the programme to the delegates so at 9pm this evening as they were on their way in to central London from LHR I got called by the FCO liaison officer who had met them to find out what / where / when was happening tomorrow morning. Hurumph!

So that is work - but it is still brilliant over all, and I have the full support of the people I work for in my application for the accelerated graduate development programme that is aka the Faststream. So will have to see how I do on that.

Now on to how things are going with S. Yesterday was date four, and we already have plans for next weekend. So I think one can say that things are going well on that front. We are both happy and are taking it gently and seeing how things go. We had hoped to go to the blockbuster show at the V&A, but got there too late. So instead we went and swapped coffee for the rest of the afternoon. No that is not a risque description of anything else - honest - but is what we did. S has her own coffee shop, and we were trying out new coffee combinations.

So apart from work and seeing S I haven't got that much done recently. I get to the gym as often as possible - spinning and pilates are great ways to distress - and try and see friends as often as possible. The one thing I really need to put some time in to is my charitable commitment, and the work I should be doing for World Jewish Relief and organising their trek to Nepal this fall.

Unfortunately the guy I am working for on this has been tardy in getting back to me on my proposals, and I think in part that is because I told him his $300 budget for organising and advertising was far too low given that he wanted to raise $30,000. He sent me a long e-mail last week, but given that at work I averaging 50 - 60 e-mails a day, I haven't got round to actioning it yet.

BBC Radio 4 has been a great comfort blanket, in particular the comedy Revolting People. Where would one be without Radio 4!

So I realise this is someone what disjointed and without a theme, so I will try and do better in my next post. I guess this one can be treated as akin to a traditional diary entry, rather than a stand alone chapter in a novel.

Over and out.