Bye Bye Breakfast

 Beat the traffic, got in early and immediately got snowpiled by urgent requests. Couriers, people on vehicle insurance, Producers amending the wording on the wrap gifts - every time I got up from my desk I physically bumped into someone else that needed my help. It's nice to feel needed, but I was so swampped with early work I missed the breakfast service hour. Hungrily I got on with my day, a late Friday working is always a bit naff because you keep hearing about everyone else's great weekend plans. I'm going to go sit in a car park tomorrow next to a generator and crack on with another days work... And hopefully get some breakfast this time!

Scrub the Copy

Part of our wrap gifts have a space for some flowery language, I spent most of my downtime over the past few days filling the space with fun, story related jokes and easter eggs. Once I sent it off to the higher ups I got the "we like it, but..." email. They want me to scrub off the fun copy and instead just shoehorn in all the names of the heads of departments, all while keeping it 'funny'. As much as I like a challenge, it's a little bit crushing in the moment. Guess that's my tomorrow now.

PCN

Hope everyone else had a grand day. Opened my inbox to learn I've been issued a PCN while driving around London - that's half my day rate for a very honest and harmless mistake. 

That put me in the grumps and the rest of the day didn't do much to brighten my mood. Instead a swirling vortex manifested inside my heart where I begun to doubt all the goodness in the world. Things felt stressy and uncomfortable, the weather took a turn and the day just went on and on. On the plus side we start much later tomorrow so I get a long night sleep - almost like the clocks are going back. I just want to wake up tomorrow with a rejuvenated sense of goodness.

Wrap Gift Budget

Back to the grindstone with a funny old day. My big boss was off sick today so we were flying a little blind. I continually got saddled with increasingly weird and wonderful jobs from the powers upstairs and I knuckled down on the wrap gifts. I've been given a budget, a brief and they said 'go' - I've got a good little thing planned so I hope it'll all come to fruition in good time. Wrap gifts always get the shaft until the penultimate day it feels like so I'm trying to keep my head above water.

'Monday Sunday'

My 'Monday Sunday' was a wellbeing superday. Are porridge with Rebecca and played games for most of the morning while still in my PJ's. Rebecca was working all the while, even while I was cursing at the TV screen when the games gave me grief (I was careful not to be too loud when she was in clinet calls). Then I did perhaps my favourite thing to do in idle afternoons: watch films. Swing Time with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers was a dreamy delight and the samurai ridden Harakiri was a cerebral slow burn. Purging out my watchlist is ever gratifying. Better yet, both films are featured with Roger 's great film books, an elegant essay about each awaits me when I get the chance to head back home to Bristol.

Rebecca's back there now, leaving me home alone for a spell. Got work to keep me and my mind busy though - onwards and upwards towards another week on the road.

Croydon Pad

Been just over two years since Dan moved into his Croydon flat - only now did I get the chance to go visit him properly. It was a classic hangout day, complete with Nandos and a go on his VR headset which never gets old. Since the pandemic ended I'm trying to reach out more and more to old chums and see them in person and laugh with them in the real world rather than the virtual one.

Hunting for Haribo

Working Saturdays is always a bit low-stakes in my department. No vendors to call or be called by, instead I used today as a chance to play around on Photoshop a bit more to design the branding for our wrap gifts. Otherwise the day went slowly, so slowly in fact I went out hunting for Haribo as snacks for the truck. Very much looking forward to some time off now though, tomorrow and Monday will be true rest days so I can catch up on some sleep, these early starts rack up eventually.