Tuesday, October 12, 2010

Bob Dylan?! OMFG!!

Not sure all that tumbleweed hanging around my blog of late is doing my quest for more followers any good!  Alas, i have plenty of news!  Since i last updated i have been to Paris and Amsterdam, held a chav-tastic party in which many an alcoholic beverage was consumed, won a Googlely award, met Bob Geldof (kinda) and got a new flatmate!  So yuh, i guess i should elaborate!

Firstly, Paris. It was great - we did all the touristy stuff minus that cliche hop on/hop off montrosity on wheels that carts the tourists aroound.  Sure enough, we still looked like tourists as we clutched our 3 day metro pass on the way to the Effiel Tower or somesuch, but boy it was fun.  Joey was in his element and immediately took charge of the metro map...tracing his finger along the various coloured lines that eluded me, and stood upright declaring "Right, perfect!" and pulled me in whatever direction we needed to go. This was fine with me, I was not required to do any thinking whatsoever. Another thing about the metro, its full of interesting people!  Theres the dude who sings John Lennon in each carriage, theres the girl with questionable (bt admittedly awesome) fashion sense, theres the friendly old lady who loves deafies, theres the fighting couple and theres the people who give us much amusement with the jerking of the head thing they do as they fall asleep and their head lolls about looking for a pillow (bless!)

The Parisians love their deafies they do - we got free fastrack passes to Disneyland (nothing like looking smug as you bypass the 100 minute queue on the other side!), free drinks (befriending barmen with deaf relatives = win) and generally being really helpful and unpatrionising when we needed something but the thick french accent was getting in the way.  J'adore Parisians!

Amsterdam was lovely too - the sun was always shining, the food was good and the wine even better, and i even tried space cake!  Alas, it had no effect on me. for those who aren't in the know, its cake (brownie, muffin, anything with a 'cakey' consistency really) with a healthy dose of marijuana.  Of course, the damn thing had no effect on me (much like the smoke i tried in Feb this year) whilst the other two were positively hopping from the effects.  FFS.

Aside from marijuana fails, i held a chav party at the start of October which saw all my party people grab their trackie bottoms, fake tan, hoop earrings and helmets (FYI, the latter mention was for my baby bump effect).  The craic was mighty and i met a few new faces - bonding in the name of chav innit.

The last two weeks have seen a new arrival in the form of Stef, a Romanian Googler who has moved in.  She's like a Romanian version of me - has her finger in a lot of pies, loves charity work (she practically swooned at my 'toilet twinning' certificate, bless!) and is into keeping shipshape.  Result!  Will be interesting to see how it all turns out over the next few weeks, but so far so good!

Last week saw the arrival of the second sales conference for Google.  The whole thing was quite tame compared to last year's jaunt in Kilarney but it was good all the same, for two reasons.  One: i could finally follow what was going on "we have lots of money! money money money!!" thanks to the interpretor i'd booked for the the conference (hurrah to Lisa!) and secondly, i won the 'Big G' all Star Award! Its basically for being Googley and making google a fun place to work (their words not mine!).  I'm pretty chuffed, who wouldn't want a big shiny star for being fun?! Although i have to say, when my Moma pic (googley speak for your 'employee' pic or ID) flashed up, a lil part of me died inside.  Y'see my moma pic is of that dark preiod when i walked the corridors looking much like a mushroom as I didnt pay attention to edwoard scissorhands in Peter Marks, choosing to concentrate on the latest goings on in Cheryle Cole's lovelife as depicted by OK! magazine.  Added to that, the angle makes me look like overdid the crunchies.  Ah well, i won an award, no time for vanity!  Oh and Bob Geldof turned up at one point, told his life story and gave a rousing speech of sorts about greed and doing your bit for the world.  This would be cool except i kept confusing him with Bob Dylan in my texts to non-googlers, prompting much confusion.

Thems the happs!  Thank you for reading, if you made it to the end consider yourself a BBBBBFFFFFF, the highest honour i award to readers.

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