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Oct. 2nd, 2006 09:56 pmChichester beat Staines 1-0. The die is cast - I'm going to Chichester on Sunday.
We had a nice long 'Open Briefing' in the Map Room this morning, taking us off the phones for an hour and a half. First Lin said good morning to us all (we all chorused 'good morning' back like primary school assembly) and introduced all the people who'd be addressing us. Next up was Bruce, a new member of the development team, who just said a piece to introduce himself. Then in turn Ed, Alan and Helen all gave us talks with overhead projector presentations about some changes that'll be made to the existing survey next year, and a new survey that'll be starting next summer. We weren't expected to make any notes or memorise things - it was purely to give us a good advance warning of the changes. A most agreeable way to pass a goodly chunk of the shift.
A sheet was passed round asking people to tick their names if they were interested in coming to this year's Christmas party. At first I ticked my name, but then when I took the sheet over to Sarah #1 and she put a cross by her name (she's already going to the Christmas do of another unit she works on) I looked again. There were an awful lot of crosses on the sheet, and even with the people who hadn't marked it yet, there probably wasn't going to be more than half a dozen going. Since I wouldn't be missing much, and I do have red figures to try and turn black, I decided to save my money and turned my tick into a cross.
Evening class was a breeze. As I sit facing the wall, and nearly all the other students are behind me to one side, I didn't notice them all going on coffee break and merrily worked all the way through it. Not once did I have any idea that anyone had come or gone. Some 20 minutes later, I asked Joan "What's happening with coffee break?" and she told me everyone else had already taken it! She said she wouldn't be announcing coffee breaks, we can all just go at 8 pm every week. Then she allowed me to pop down to the canteen and have a solo coffee break.
We had a nice long 'Open Briefing' in the Map Room this morning, taking us off the phones for an hour and a half. First Lin said good morning to us all (we all chorused 'good morning' back like primary school assembly) and introduced all the people who'd be addressing us. Next up was Bruce, a new member of the development team, who just said a piece to introduce himself. Then in turn Ed, Alan and Helen all gave us talks with overhead projector presentations about some changes that'll be made to the existing survey next year, and a new survey that'll be starting next summer. We weren't expected to make any notes or memorise things - it was purely to give us a good advance warning of the changes. A most agreeable way to pass a goodly chunk of the shift.
A sheet was passed round asking people to tick their names if they were interested in coming to this year's Christmas party. At first I ticked my name, but then when I took the sheet over to Sarah #1 and she put a cross by her name (she's already going to the Christmas do of another unit she works on) I looked again. There were an awful lot of crosses on the sheet, and even with the people who hadn't marked it yet, there probably wasn't going to be more than half a dozen going. Since I wouldn't be missing much, and I do have red figures to try and turn black, I decided to save my money and turned my tick into a cross.
Evening class was a breeze. As I sit facing the wall, and nearly all the other students are behind me to one side, I didn't notice them all going on coffee break and merrily worked all the way through it. Not once did I have any idea that anyone had come or gone. Some 20 minutes later, I asked Joan "What's happening with coffee break?" and she told me everyone else had already taken it! She said she wouldn't be announcing coffee breaks, we can all just go at 8 pm every week. Then she allowed me to pop down to the canteen and have a solo coffee break.