david over at swish cottage

david over at swish cottage participated in Another eMode personality test. I naturally felt duty bound to go and complete it myself. Allegedly [and I think this may be a big career change for me] I should be a Cruise Director! other likely careers:
Talk show host, HR director, news anchor, teacher, spiritual leader, socialite

Probably just as well I’m a trainer then
Motivation

Face it, you’re a Slacker. Work is a necessary evil, so you’re often counting the minutes between coffee breaks. As for advancing up the company ladder, you’d prefer to take the escalator. You don’t let your personality get caught up in your career success. Maybe you get the job done, but you don’t go out of your way to prove your merit.
Conflict

You’re a Negotiator. You can look a conflict square in the eyes without getting overly dramatic. [who says I’m a drama queen then] You strike a nice balance between keeping the peace and making sure that problems are dealt with. Your ability to see all sides to a problem means that you can be really helpful in easing political scuffles. You don’t make a point of always being right, but you stand up for what you believe.
Leadership

You’re a Catalyst. You strike a balance between innovation and cautious skepticism. You know that perception is reality in the workplace, so new ideas are only successful if embraced by people who are trusted and liked. While open to change and trying new ideas in the workplace, you don’t blindly go forward without careful consideration of the consequences.
So it looks like David and I are similar in Leadership and Motivation styles – either that or the test is flawed and I was actually meant to be a millionaires husband…

I’ve never really looked at

I’ve never really looked at discodamaged.com before but their guide to pulling a sickie is pure genius.

jacs recently wrote about gay

jacs recently wrote about gay men and women trying to
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if (navigatorstring.indexOf(“AOL”) > 0)
{
document.write(“” + “build the perfect body“);
} else {
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}
and it made me realise just how body conscious gay men and women tend to be. I think I may look for a gay running club – I think I’m doing pretty well on my own but unless you train with other people you have no idea. Besides I may meet some new friends too.

Well it looks like blogger

Well it looks like blogger is up and running again. Poor Ev has had more on his mind than fixing what is usually a very good service and I cannot believe the number of people who were bitching about it being down. Blogger is a free service and is invaluable to thousands of people but a lot of them seem to take it for granted.

you know I feel really

you know I feel really bad about this but ben browder may have been replaced – by scott bairstow from party of five :o) he’s a nice boy

okay well those of you

okay well those of you that read notsosoft will be aware of the local sandwich shop saga. I’d just like to add that it seems to determine who serves you at the till as to how much your lunch will cost you – Yesterday ?5 today ?3.90 – I think I prefer todays prices

Yesterday was another spent out

Yesterday was another spent out in the sun so no internet and no blog. Today however it looks like summer is over [I’m hoping not].
I have an appraisal next week at work – and I am appraising my assistant this week. This whole writing down your job goals and focus is taking it’s toll on me today and my head is beginning to hurt.
Oh and blogger is having problems so this will probably not publish :o(

lovely sunny day in London

lovely sunny day in London today and so got on the roof and caught some rays. It’s really nice on the roof and not overlooked so did a bit of work on the all over tan :o)
joined spence at sports and shorts at the stag. I went around to his earlier in the day to pick an outfit [not owning any footy gear of my own]. It was a really nice night actually. A little wierd but probably because I felt very out of place wearing football colours. I mean I was not out of place at all there were at least a hundred guys there all in football colours or sportswear I just felt out of place.
Met a nice bunch of people and also Andrew who was very nice [a nurse and doing a degree in computing which seemed an unlikely combination]. He certainly made an impression when he tried to get me to take my tracky bottoms off at the start of the evening. By the time 11.30 came around I had decided to make a move as I was still feeling a little nervy [first time at an event like that really] so started to make a move and lo an behold but so does Andrew [make a move that is] and what a move it was too. Nice snog but way too late in my game. I was all for the extra time but had to run to catch the last train home. So maybe next time eh? I’ll head on over to sas and see if there are any pics of said man and share 😉
Also during the evening was a very scary mud wrestling event which ended in one poor contestant having no shorts left as they had been ripped in half.
Reminded me of the good old days working at the bridge in putney actually, when we had stupid events and an amateur strip night too. I say good old days but you just know I am using rose tinted glasses! Met a couple of the guys from there as well tonight which brought some memories flooding back! So off to bed to dream of what might have happened if I hadn’t bottled it and decided to stay for the extra time.

America Online To Sponsor The

America Online To Sponsor The ‘Madonna Drowned World Tour 2001’
Madonna Is Coming To Town And The First Place To Get Advance Tickets Is Through AOL – well if you live in the US that is shame they never did this in the UK it would have made my ticket quest much easier!

Oh and Dom at work

Oh and Dom at work has just told me this little gem via IM:
I see that Robert De Niro is being lined up to play that Doctor Harold Shipman in a new film!
Apparently it’s called “The Old Dear Hunter”