Feast of Fools

Hooray, I'm a Vice President ^_________^

Vice President of what, you may ask? And who do I have to kill to become President? (Actually, that was what my mother asked)

Sadly it doesn't work like that. American investment bank titles are remarkably weird and show every sign of having been invented by jovial men with enormous moustaches and large cigars some time in the 1800s.

Assuming you're starting somewhere in Operations (the people who actually do all the work in banking) it goes like this:

Non-person
Assistant Manager
Manager
Analyst
Assistant Vice President / Associate
Vice President
Director
Managing Director
God

So now you know. And as a reward for my new elevated status and more senior duties I got to spend ten working hours on a @&*($%ing presentation when I should have been calling clients, and then got to work right through what was supposed to be my afternoon off trying to catch up.

Looking on the bright side, however, I am now much less likely to be fired compared to my colleagues. And at least I'm not French.

Plus, my shiny new living room light arrived! ^_^ And turned out to come in an ENORMOUS box which necessitated a taxi home and considerable swearing to get upstairs. Picture to follow after my long-suffering father has assisted with installation.

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Stripey things: 4 (Paul Smith swirly purse, stripy dishcloths, stripy serviettes ,stripy facecloth)

Books I wanted: 3 (Eddas aplenty, and the Henry IV biography I was gleeing over in Borders)

Shiny things for the flat: 1 (Innermost Fantome clock, comes with its own cotton gloves so it doesn't get all fingerprinty when you set it up)

Divxes of things I love but had no hope of ever getting: 2 (A Very Open Prison and Crossing the Floor, yayz ^_____^)

Edibles: 2

Miscellaneous exciting things: 4 (scarf thingy, shiny earrings, taxi hailer light, Boiley the Microwave Egg Boiler)

Sewing kits: 1 (my mother has a strange sense of humour ^_^;;)

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Photos from safari in September, before the country went to hell a bit :-s Click on the image to see the whole gallery.

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WAKE UP, blog!!!!

New look, hooray ^_^ I know that this is a truckload of Reno with a side order of Advent Children, but in my head this is the Schuldig-from-Weiss-Kreuz layout. Go figure. o.O

Also, I will now attempt to blog again. (By way of explanation/feeble excuse, a colleague with a grade's seniority and 18 years' more experience than me gave 24 hours' notice at the end of May, and they gave me his job, which ate me.)

If this looks weird in anyone's browser, please shout.

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