I wanna sleep before the end. Which is most impolite.

[reddragdiva]

I am at my desk, still asleep. Two strong caffeines and a Sudafed at home and a can of Red Bull on the way in. Five hours' sleep. Two weeks in which I have not been able to rest properly. I so want that fecking agent to call today with the lease and keys and money and stuff.

When there is an office collection for a leaving gift for a co-worker you've never actually met, is it wrong to take the opportunity to offload all the foreign coins that have found their way into your change, if you put a couple of quid in as well?

Dorkbot was not as good as usual last night. Two speakers cancelled and Limehouse Town Hall echoes way too much. The flashing lights 3D display at the end was good, though. Met kineticfactory at long last.

We live in a world of plenty as if we are starving. Greed comes from a fear of loss, which is rooted in emotional betrayal.

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[zoo-music-girl.livejournal.com]

Gosh, two in a row! I'm on a roll now.

is it wrong to take the opportunity to offload all the foreign coins that have found their way into your change, if you put a couple of quid in as well?

Don't you have anywhere you can dump them legitimately? There are collection boxes for foreign currency here.

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[reddragdiva]

I expect I shall change to this source of lyrics; I'm having to really stretch with the Go-Betweens ones. Ideally I'd use the Tuff Monks song as a segue, but I expect that'll be most suitable for once we've moved.

There are probably places, but I haven't spotted any in my daily routine. So someone else can leave them there.

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[redcountess]

They have them at Heathrow airport, but that's a little far. Of course, if they're Australian, they're practically worthless anyway ;-) I'm thinking of sending the euro coins and the ones the landlord left to Bill, he'd love them!

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[inulro.livejournal.com]

I always keep my leftover euro coins, now that they're multi-purpose.

[redcountess]

That last para was deep, what's up? (Email me, if you prefer)

[reddragdiva]

No deep meaning at all! It's a shortened version of something I saw on a mailing list and I put it here for discussion.

[damien-wise.livejournal.com]

Congrats on getting the new place...after the disaster of the last one, you folks deserve a good run. :)

[siani-hedgehog.livejournal.com]

When there is an office collection for a leaving gift for a co-worker you've never actually met, is it wrong to take the opportunity to offload all the foreign coins that have found their way into your change, if you put a couple of quid in as well?

no. i refuse to give anything at all for people i've never met. my workplace has a really nasty culture where they try to force everyone to give money for leaving things. it's like a constant stream of it, too. and they work harder for the big bosses getting golden handshakes.

[inulro.livejournal.com]

My new workplace looks like turning out to be the sort of place where you have to get birthday cards for *everyone*, & sometimes presents. I'm not impressed. At my last workplace we all genuinely liked each other but still barely acknowledged birthdays. Oh right, we were too busy actually working.

at the moment I'm getting out of it by being too new, but that won't last. On the plus side, I'm getting away with not going to the official Christmas party.

[reddragdiva]

I've signed up for the Xmess party on the basis that it's effectively work. It's at a City nightclub with City folk. If I were single I'd go with a friend and see what entertainment we could extract from the evening; I suspect bringing the wife and the girlfriend would explode their heads in such a manner as to negate any reasonable purpose in bothering. At least the pish will be free.