theLaconic

bummed

errrr how to put this....

I am not going to be flying back to the UK until Tuesday - fuck arse bollocks weasels.

Flight time unknown.

I have been involved with quite a high profile campaign for a new global client, and I thought I was going to be okay as the big meeting was scheduled for Friday the 29th.

I now know it has been changed to Tuesday. And as a result I am required to work (okay I said in a utter emergency I can put off my flight until Tuesday). 

The good side if there is any, is I'll get to fly business, I get 4 holiday comp days and I'll still have plenty of time to see you everyone, but right now I am pretty bummed about it really.

This might all change and I'll be returning to my original plan but I'll know more when I get into work tomorrow.

Boring

I'm doing nothing to save money for the trip back home so I have nothing to really report.

See everyone in a few days time... well on the weekend for the folks in London.

It's hot in here

Okay it's warm, but I can cope with that, what I am having trouble with is the damn humidity. Now it was humid last summer but never at these levels, the weather report says it is at 97% humidity.

On Sunday night I left my local bar and there was condensation on the outside of the windows and as I walked down the block I noticed that effect was repeated on every apartment window that had it's air conditioner working. Thank god for air conditioning.

Where do we go from here?

Where do we go from here?
Originally uploaded by hinius.

I felt I had to post something today but wasn't sure what I would say until I saw this photo on flickr (you can click thru to see more).

In some way this photo somehow illustrates what I have felt like today, an anxious observer trying to figure out what to do, if anything.

As I sat at work reading the BBC website writing emails and chatting on instant messenger to anyone who was in London, I remebered the feeling I used to get as I walked into London Bridge tube station every morning just after 9.11. Wondering if anything was going to happen and what would it be like if it did.

Well the something has happened, and as I run of things to say I am just very gratefull that everyone I know in London is okay. And in some weird way I am very glad that I am coming home to visit London in three weeks time.

I'll be back

Yet again another day when I would love to have been back in London. I listened to the result live this morning and I was as shocked as anybody as I was sure it was going to Paris.

I am normally quite a patriotic person but today I was absolutely bursting with pride, walking through the offices in New York being congratulated by my fellow workers.

Some people will say it will cost a lot in taxes and inconvenience but that will be soon forgotten come the opening ceremony. And Today I have already felt some of positive effects of winning the Olympics, the pride in winning and more importantly being a British winner.

That means a lot especially to people like me, who live in foreign countries.

So many more Americans are proud of their country in ways that would make a British person squirm but today I think I know what that feels like.

And for that I am one happy and proud Brit abroad.

Now where's that Union Jack? The office needs some colour.

Fireworks

A lot of fireworks over the east river in New York.

It's kind of weird to celebrate one of worst military defeats of you home land in the victors country but I got a day and a half of work this weekend so it didn't hurt my patriotic pride that much.

I posted 5 other photos to my flickr page and you can see them by clicking here.

So half of the year has passed and I still haven't returned home since last May but fear not for I am returning in less than 5 weeks. My younger sister is getting married on the 6th of August back in Rutland.

I have two weeks booked off work and intend to spend some quality time with the family for one week and then spend the rest of the time in London. I am sending some emails out tonight asking for a place to lay my head and also trying to arrange a few nights out on the town.