Look, English isn’t my first language. And besides, the English language isn’t static; English is an evolutionary beast, it changes with each generation. And if a member of this generation (points finger at self) wants to introduce a word like ‘workery’ than actually it’s cool and ok and hip and happening and everything and… just… so there! I mean, I could have said something really ancient like “Riding Along on a Crest of a Wave” but how many people would have got that? Don’t answer. I hate being wrong. Besides, I’m in much too good a mood to be wrong about anything. Because today I’m in such a good mood I’m on the verge of taking over the world… and allowing everyone else to continue living on the planet. Rather than on a small corner of the moon. Don’t look at me like that. I know the moon doesn’t have corners and one more glance like that my friend and you’ll be out! Anyway. Where was I? Oh yes…
Top workery!
People are funny creatures, capable of much funniness. And fun-ness.
Yesterday, despite having lunch on the hoof and a trip to Maplin (note to self: must call the place ‘Maplin’ not ‘Maplins’, the former being the electronic gadgetry emporium I visited, the latter being the name of the fictional holiday camp in Hi De Hi!) I had a better than good day.
Many people put in significant effort to make my away fixture to scientific folk a massive success.
It’s always a little touch and go – as anyone might be able to appreciate – to ‘go out in to the field’ (though no fields were actually visited on this occasion) and meet a bunch of interested people.
But not only were these people interested when I got there… They were very interesting too!
A win-win!
Yay!
It was, without doubt, a long day but by then end of it I’d met three Professors, a couple of Fellows, a bunch of very nice Doctors, a couple of Post-Docs and a brace of PhD-students.
And the conversations were brisk, professional, pointed and purposeful (sorry, couldn’t think of a ‘p’ word for brisk).
It was a wonder that I slept last night – I was that fired up.
Today too (not, I hasten to add, that I was trying to sleep at work – oh no!).
In fact despite less than my usual amount of caffeine and (sits back and counts) yep, five meetings and a software demo, despite all that… I’m still flying from yesterday.
And two good meetings with senior bods this afternoon helped clarify a couple of minor niggles – brush them aside really – and set me on a more direct route to my objective.
I wish, right now, there were more hours in the day.
I could comfortably fill an extra three working hours, five days a week.
Yes I know. And I agree! I do like to sleep sometimes, you’re right.
But suddenly I have so much to do. Four projects simultaneously, all to be delivered in the same time-frame.
But I love a challenge.
Liverpool next Monday.
I’d offer to bring you back a stick of rock but I have some kind of peculiar quality about me that makes the stuff evaporate.
Weird!
B.