It was our work Christmas party on Friday night. I’m not a big one for parties, especially work parties, and so I would say that I survived it rather than enjoyed it. We had our departmental Christmas lunch during the day time which was relatively civilised, and I did have a few glasses of wine but stopped as soon as I started feeling them take effect, because I don’t really like drinking when I’m not around Babel. I didn’t stay for long at the actual evening party because it was in a rather dodgy part of town, and the friend I was with wasn’t staying long either. I’m glad, because it sounds like it was total carnage. There are some amusing photos on Facebook this morning of a mutual friend of mine and Babel’s without his shirt on, but the biggest story currently doing the gossip rounds is that one of the guys I am working with onsite this week, pulled an 18 year old PA from the Transaction Support department (more…)