2008

So, on balance, 2007 was an OK year. Would have been great if it weren't for most of what happened in the office during December. It felt as though enormous progress had been made up until then.

But now here we are in 2008. It got off to a pretty good start with a shopping trip uptown (actually on the last day of 2007, but who's counting?) that would have included a visit to the Hyde Park funfair and other delights after that, but the shopping part was kind of tiring. Still there's a chance for a second attempt later this week, so who knows?

The first day back at work was weird. Got through it mostly unscathed but my copy controller was off sick (the old 'food poisoning' excuse), so that side of things was in disarray from the get go. While the magazine made good progress today, it didn't do quite as well as I'd hoped, considering my first deadline this year is Friday, and the second is Monday. Doesn't give me much wriggle-room.

The MD did not, in fact, move into the old Publishing Director's office (not surprising), and people did seem to be getting on with their work (what little there was) rather than doing the usual 'first day back' piss-taking. Of course, we were somewhat hampered by an office-wide telephone breakdown which took till mid-afternoon for BT to fix, but that didn't seem to hamper us too much.

There is also the underlying sense of things changed in the office. Its hard to put one's finger on it... but in the few moments when I wasn't concentrating on work, I could feel it.

Definitely looking to move on this year.