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Dec. 12th, 2003 01:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
reddragdivaI would rather work than go to a fucking office Christmas party. I'm not around you people or this place by choice.
Nice pubbing.
The Princess Louise is a Sam Smith pub, so the real beer is sorta crappy but, at
£1.66 a pint, cheap enough
to put up with. Coincidentally bumped into ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
valkyriekaren and wechsler,
who were meeting Karen's brother there before dinner. ali_anarres
showed and I returned her Perl book and we talked about her fantastic nu meeja job. allezbleu finally made it out of Hollywood and we had a lovely
catch-up. And saw wintrmute for a few minutes at the end.
One (1) quick pt. became four, but these things happen.
Our overseas Christmas cards are done and posted, only slightly late.
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Date: 2003-12-12 05:13 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-12-12 05:36 am (UTC)Exactly my sentiments. As if we don't spend ENOUGH time with those people every day. As if you are not dying to get AWAY from them at the end of the day/week. Jeez. And then they look at you funny in the office when you say exactly that and that you want to see your friends or go to a gig instead. Weirdos.
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Date: 2003-12-12 06:40 am (UTC)They have much better beer than the cheap stuff, but the cheap stuff is, ah, cheap.
Office parties
Date: 2003-12-12 06:28 am (UTC)Office Christmas parties are now something for me to look forward to: most of my group avoids the more general ones, and we go off to University House for a fabulous lunch and wine-snob session. Takes the whole day.
That's how I spent my first day there, and that's how I'll be spending next Friday, too.
Re: Office parties
Date: 2003-12-12 06:39 am (UTC)I think it's that I don't default to liking people just because I share a fecking office with them.
I never enjoyed family Christmases either.
Re: Office parties
Date: 2003-12-12 06:48 am (UTC)I usually got stuck with the Prince of Mediocrity, and his soul-brother our boss the PhD.
(Hm, actually, Maks was OK too, but that's about it. I think I was a bit busy being jealous because I thought he was getting somewhere with Sappho.)
Now I like all of my co-workers enough to be happy spending one day a year being sociable.
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Date: 2003-12-12 10:09 am (UTC)The ones I do like are the other ones who don't go because they don't want to blow that much money on a night out with people they can't stand.
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Date: 2003-12-12 06:36 am (UTC)Wheeee! (And I mean it.)
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Date: 2003-12-12 06:41 am (UTC)(I'm actually watching a lot of stuff that's in progress and thumping it occasionally.)