I have been distracted from my distraction

Posted on November 4, 2008 by Cath@VWXYNot?

I’ve just got out of a meeting at which I learned the hourly operating cost of this research building. I’m not gonna tell you what it is, just that my jaw almost hit the floor.
This new knowledge has inspired a burst of extra productivity, to make sure that my little corner of the building is pulling its weight in the return on investment department.
How very inconvenient that this should happen on the day of the US election – I was enjoying the BBC website’s live text updates.
Ah well, back to editing my budget proposal. Whatever you do, don’t comment on this post. Distraction from this distraction from my earlier distraction is A Bad Thing.

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10 Responses to I have been distracted from my distraction

  1. Richard P. Grant says:
    November 4, 2008 at 10:45 pm

    OK. I won’t comme–
    damn

  2. Bob O'Hara says:
    November 5, 2008 at 6:55 am

    Are we allowed to comment from home?

  3. Cath Ennis says:
    November 5, 2008 at 7:02 am

    Do what you like, I’m too happy to care! Wooooooooooo! (yes I had 3 beers at the hockey game, what of it?)

  4. Bob O'Hara says:
    November 5, 2008 at 12:09 pm

    What was the result of the game?

  5. Cath Ennis says:
    November 5, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    4-0 to the good guys

  6. Bob O'Hara says:
    November 5, 2008 at 4:18 pm

    Ah, you were taking notice. I had assumed you had spent most of the match scrambling around for your iPhone.

  7. Cath Ennis says:
    November 5, 2008 at 4:21 pm

    No, the kid in front of me fished it out from under his seat and handed it back pretty quickly. Apparently though, you need to switch an iPhone off and then on again after you accidentally throw it onto the ground in a fit of excitement when your favoured candidate takes Ohio. Otherwise you will not get reception until halfway through the 2nd period.

  8. Maxine Clarke says:
    November 5, 2008 at 6:17 pm

    Just as well I stick to pen and paper, then – no complicated rules to remember 😉

  9. Cath Ennis says:
    November 5, 2008 at 6:20 pm

    Unfortunately I couldn’t seem to get the BBC website to load properly on the piece of paper I’d taken as backup.

  10. Maxine Clarke says:
    November 5, 2008 at 6:50 pm

    Hee hee!

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