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Short and sweet part 2

December 14th, 2007

Well, Christmas party completed.  And no, I didn’t really manage to talk to any new people…so now having an away day to do the job seems the only way to fix it. (There are around 20 of them, and I have got to know around 8 of them, so I don’t feel too bad.)

Being rather shy at parties, I was rescued by a more convivial colleague who soon roped me in to assisting her with selling raffle tickets.  It does mean you can keep your head down, write names on the back of tickets, and not worry about the appropriate thing to say next…

Despite the party not doing the ‘new colleague’ bit for me, what it did allow for was some catch up time with people I do know.  Nice to sit with some who’ve been around for a year or more, and who I have some background with.  Because being in the same office as someone, even when there’s only 60 of you, is no guarantee of talking to them, let alone keeping up with the ones you consider as good friends.

I also attempted to master a pashmina…Yes, even more out of date than my mobile phone blog recently.  But thankfully there are more glamorous colleagues who are prepared to lend you a pretty scarf for an evening, and even tell you how to wear it.  And with wall to wall little black dresses, I even felt appropriately dressed when it became too warm to keep the pashmina on.

Best of all, we raised over £300 for Maggie’s Centre in Edinburgh, and the atmosphere of the raffle kept everyone going, and in a good mood.  I even discovered a new second career as a maker of impromptu raffle tickets when both books of proper tickets were used up…

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