Friday, Mar. 13, 2009 - 22:42

I do like the fact that a knock-on from the fact that today we all in our office had come in to work wearing red tops (for Red Nose Day) has been that this afternoon we agreed we'd all come in wearing black on Monday, and we'd wear green on Tuesday. Reason why? I quote, "to freak people out". Such funny little perversities (the pact coming as a result of noting the surprised reaction of people coming into the office and seeing all six of us dressed similarly) amuse me greatly :-)

Not a bad week at work - the fact that last week was a stinker, and I finally got time this week to catch up on some of my 'normal' work meant that I was somewhat less stressed from Wednesday onwards. I've had a few peeps from the lab having a go at me regarding the likelihood they'll get their bonus, and various other dissatisfactions they have (I think I am a natural ear for such stuff because I am an ex-lab employee so know what's going on, have a small degree of influence w.r.t. making some changes to procedure if I can justify recommending them, but I am not the 'big' boss, so am not seen as a threat or as someone with no time for issues), but in all it's not been a bad second half of the week.

LISTENING TO:- Someone at work asked me to copy the new Prodigy CD for them, and as a result, I have a copy resting temporarily (Father Ted style) in my laptop memory. It's good anyhow, a lot of nice meaty stuff so far on initial impressions from listenings this week.

Yesterday afternoon at work, since it was quiet and a couple of my colleagues weren't in, two of my (very nice, attractive married mummies) female co-workers started grilling me about my love life and trying to set me up with another of the women in the office (who wasn't in). It was mostly in jest and done for amusement, but it was a bit odd - I struggled to politely say "er.. no.. I just don't find her attractive!" without coming over as being a bastard. I perhaps should have just been blunter, but in truth today there was nowt much said about it, so I figure the whole conversation was mostly just teasing type stuff.

That said, I almost made a GIGANTIC fuck-up, in nearly responding to a question I had misinterpreted. The two married co-worker ladies had been asking me about this other colleague and whether I'd be set up with her etc. and they said "No come on, between the two of us, would you?". Unfortunately I sorta misinterpreted it in my head (not concentrating.. I was trying to work you see!) as being them asking me to choose between them two married mothers!! Thankfully, I clarified and stalled several times, asking "What do you mean?" till I worked out that they were asking me to confide with just them two about whether I liked t'other co-worker. Phew.. close to making a BIG boo-boo!

This evening I watched a bit of Comic Relief, but figured it'd take the usual route of being unfunny till the watershed, then crude and unfunny after the watershed, so I turned it off and spent a couple of hours looking for second hand CDs to buy online.