{"id":412,"date":"2008-02-26T22:26:35","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T22:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=412"},"modified":"2008-02-26T22:26:35","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T22:26:35","slug":"top-workery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=412","title":{"rendered":"Top workery"},"content":{"rendered":"

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…<\/em><\/p>\n

Top workery!<\/p>\n

People are funny creatures, capable of much funniness. And fun-ness.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Many people put in significant effort to make my away fixture to scientific folk a massive success.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

But not only were these people interested when I got there… They were very interesting<\/em> too!<\/p>\n

A win-win!<\/p>\n

Yay!<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And the conversations were brisk, professional, pointed and purposeful (sorry, couldn’t think of a ‘p’ word for brisk).<\/p>\n

It was a wonder that I slept last night – I was that fired up.<\/p>\n

Today too (not, I hasten to add, that I was trying to sleep at work – oh no!).<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

I wish, right now, there were more hours in the day.<\/p>\n

I could comfortably fill an extra three working hours, five days a week.<\/p>\n

Yes I know. And I agree! I do like to sleep sometimes, you’re right.<\/p>\n

But suddenly I have so much to do. Four projects simultaneously, all to be delivered in the same time-frame.<\/p>\n

But I love a challenge.<\/p>\n

Liverpool next Monday.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Weird!<\/p>\n

B<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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