Like a blue-arsed fly
Friday, December 15th, 2006 05:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
caddymanEgads, what a day.
This morning I was up at Barnet General Hospital (yes, the very one![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pax_draconis was extremely rude about in his professional capacity as someone who knows these thingsTM). They were very rude about Finchley Memorial for not taking an X-Ray of my finger and did one for me. They then told me what I already knew (Finchley Memorial Hospital said they would), gave me my x-rays, told me to keep them safe and made me promise to go and say hello to them again on 12th January.
That was the morning gone.
Back home for lunch with My GirlTM (originally I had intended to come straight from Barnet to work, but that was before I found that I would be carrying a very professional portfolio of my exceedingly glamorous finger bones. I may have them framed): a quick coffee and toasty cheese sarnies whilst watching Evil Timbo on Bargain Hunt on telly.
In the office by 2.15, to find total disarray because of out complete reversal of policy on Wednesday night. Surprisingly, we got a decision from You-Know-Who almost immediately and apart from severely jangled nervous systems in the Legal Department, where they have to convert algebra into Legal English, all seems to be well. I have spent the afternoon redrafting papers I thought finished. Now they are. At least until Monday when I will probably have to redraft them again.
The economists have been having fun with the Determination Model (don't ask) by feeding me revised data every few minutes. Despite the differences in grade (the Chief Economist is two grades higher than me), I have pointed out that I have an inventive imagination, a full stationery cupboard and the motivation to apply the contents of same to various bodily orifices. My knowledge of anatomy may not be up to medical professional standards, but I am willing to learn and will apply an unholy enthusiasm to the task. I do believe my arguments to be convincing; the constant updates have abruptly ceased and I have managed to complete today's drafting unhindered.
I intend to go home shortly; whether or not via the West End has yet to be determined.
This morning I was up at Barnet General Hospital (yes, the very one
pax_draconis was extremely rude about in his professional capacity as someone who knows these thingsTM). They were very rude about Finchley Memorial for not taking an X-Ray of my finger and did one for me. They then told me what I already knew (Finchley Memorial Hospital said they would), gave me my x-rays, told me to keep them safe and made me promise to go and say hello to them again on 12th January. That was the morning gone.
Back home for lunch with My GirlTM (originally I had intended to come straight from Barnet to work, but that was before I found that I would be carrying a very professional portfolio of my exceedingly glamorous finger bones. I may have them framed): a quick coffee and toasty cheese sarnies whilst watching Evil Timbo on Bargain Hunt on telly.
In the office by 2.15, to find total disarray because of out complete reversal of policy on Wednesday night. Surprisingly, we got a decision from You-Know-Who almost immediately and apart from severely jangled nervous systems in the Legal Department, where they have to convert algebra into Legal English, all seems to be well. I have spent the afternoon redrafting papers I thought finished. Now they are. At least until Monday when I will probably have to redraft them again.
The economists have been having fun with the Determination Model (don't ask) by feeding me revised data every few minutes. Despite the differences in grade (the Chief Economist is two grades higher than me), I have pointed out that I have an inventive imagination, a full stationery cupboard and the motivation to apply the contents of same to various bodily orifices. My knowledge of anatomy may not be up to medical professional standards, but I am willing to learn and will apply an unholy enthusiasm to the task. I do believe my arguments to be convincing; the constant updates have abruptly ceased and I have managed to complete today's drafting unhindered.
I intend to go home shortly; whether or not via the West End has yet to be determined.
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Date: 2006-12-15 05:55 pm (UTC)Few better ways to spend that particular part of a late morning/early afternoon.