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Still around. Never went away.
Just a couple of weeks of intensive work towards a deadline - which in the public sector, I just found out, means "You decide to go live with the redesigned websites whenever you are ready. Tuesday? In three weeks time? Might be a bit too early, are you sure you can make it? Let's just say Tuesday 2007, to be on the safe side". Must remember to shed my private-sector influenced commitment to wanting things done by yesterday.
And an office move (across the road in Whitehall), from the coveted corner position in a tiny three-people unit to a twenty-plus open plan where everybody sees my monitor. I do not think that reading and writing blogs would help me materialise the dream I had last night, where big boss was asking me to stay on for another twelve months. As a contractor, if you please (a position that currently allows me to take home more money than my line manager - he's got the better deal pension-wise though).
See? Boring.
(And then, as the clock strikes midnight, sensible office worker turns into creature of the night and magically turns "a couple of drinks to check out Two 2 Much" into "a couple of clubs to wait for the first tube home". All work and no play…)