Pop stars and zoo keepers
Friday at last. Much cheerfulness, and significantly fresher in body and sould today, despite trying to breath life into a crushingly dull brochure about savings accounts all day.
Over lunch, Anita, a nice work colleague, told the story of how she and young Aja had "met" Marilyn Manson on Wednesday. Aja was waiting outside his changing room door, having blagged her way there during a lunchtime television shoot. The door had a code lock on it, and Aja slightly madly suggested they punch in 666. Trying this plan, they found the door was already open, and they pushed through. After gawping, star-struck, at some of belongings, Manson came in behind them with two of his security guys. Fortunately instead of a nasty scene, it turns out he was really pleasant and Aja, who was a big fan and reduced to a blubbering I love you, had her photo taken with him.
And talking of fans, I put my mum's website on my work intranet, and lots of people have looked at it in the agency, and have told me how much they like her work.
Been quite a good week for talking to old friends; my old school pal Mick, and wonderful poet, Rhona McAdam. She has an excellent blog called Iambic Cafe. She is in Italy at the moment, learning all about Italian food. It looks mouthwatering.
After work I hung about in the agency and sat on the terrace outside watching the clouds gather in preparation for the weekend, and gossiped with various colleagues over a beer, and played table football, and then a session of excruciating jokes. Still liking this bee joke Kate sent me the other day a lot...
Friday at last. Much cheerfulness, and significantly fresher in body and sould today, despite trying to breath life into a crushingly dull brochure about savings accounts all day.
Over lunch, Anita, a nice work colleague, told the story of how she and young Aja had "met" Marilyn Manson on Wednesday. Aja was waiting outside his changing room door, having blagged her way there during a lunchtime television shoot. The door had a code lock on it, and Aja slightly madly suggested they punch in 666. Trying this plan, they found the door was already open, and they pushed through. After gawping, star-struck, at some of belongings, Manson came in behind them with two of his security guys. Fortunately instead of a nasty scene, it turns out he was really pleasant and Aja, who was a big fan and reduced to a blubbering I love you, had her photo taken with him.
And talking of fans, I put my mum's website on my work intranet, and lots of people have looked at it in the agency, and have told me how much they like her work.
Been quite a good week for talking to old friends; my old school pal Mick, and wonderful poet, Rhona McAdam. She has an excellent blog called Iambic Cafe. She is in Italy at the moment, learning all about Italian food. It looks mouthwatering.
After work I hung about in the agency and sat on the terrace outside watching the clouds gather in preparation for the weekend, and gossiped with various colleagues over a beer, and played table football, and then a session of excruciating jokes. Still liking this bee joke Kate sent me the other day a lot...
A man starts his new job at the zoo and is given three tasks. First is to clear the exotic fish pool of weeds. As he does this, a huge fish jumps out and bites him. To show the others who's boss, he beats it to death with a spade. Realising his employer won't be best pleased, he disposes of the fish by feeding it to the lions, as lions will eat anything.
Moving on to the second job of clearing out the chimp house, he is attacked by the chimps who pelt him with coconuts. He swipes at two chimps with a spade, killing them both. What can he do? Feed them to the lions, he says to himself, because lions eat anything. He hurls the corpses into the lion enclosure.
He moved on to the last job, which is to collect honey from the South American bees. As soon as he starts, he is attacked by the bees. He grabs the spade and smashes the bees to a pulp. By now he knows what to do and throws them into the lion's cage because lions eat anything.
Later that day a new lion arrives at the zoo. He wanders up to another lion and says "What's the food like here?" The lion says "Absolutely brilliant. Today we had fish and chimps with mushy bees."
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