I'm not long back from a very nice, slightly classier jaunt to Italy than I'd usually partake in. My friend Cheryl's much-lauded wedding to her intended Mike closed a 2-year engagement with a rather lavish, lovely 2 day affair with 61 guests holed up in a 15th-century castle hidden on a hill about 30 minutes drive from Siena, in the Tuscan countryside - all paid up too, by the happy couple. I went with my bessie mates Sonia and Rosie and we booked ourselves an overnight stay in Siena after the wedding. First of all, I was struck by how picture [View Full Entry]

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Today is the first time I've had in weeks and weeks to think about anyhting else except work. We went to press our our June issue yesterday so today is the post-press chill. My editor asked me to try and write an entry on our website's blog. I'm half obedient: I'm writing a blog, just not the magazine's. Actually, having the time doesn't mean I've got the headspace free. It's rare that I have days like this at work - days where time drags because once I've checked my horoscopes, my hotmail, the ft and bbc websites, done a bit of [View Full Entry]

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OK, I am not in Berlin right now truth be told - I'm in London at work. I had my first chance to travel since last year when Alexis and I took four days to visit Berlin and Hamburg three weeks ago (and me with a rubbish cold and sore ears). It was just good to get back on the road in some way, just for four days, to get on a plane and go somewhere they don't speak English as a first language, see new stuff, do new things. We travelled uber-light having learned our lesson in South America - [View Full Entry]

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This is the first chance I've had to update my blog (well, technically I created the chance - I'm at work at 6.30pm on Monday, press week) since christmas, when life was very different. Back in those golden days, I had almost two straight weeks of pure loafery to get through - compounded by a sheer rock face of food to eat my way through, coming at me from my boyfriend's parents and my own, being as it was, the christmas period of traditional gannetry. When I wasn't shovelling food into my mouth, I was usually sleeping off the effects. It [View Full Entry]

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I haven't had any time to write my blog for the last two weeks but now that I have five minutes, I actually have some news. I'm going back into honest guv employment in 08. I should be starting the year as Deputy Editor of a financial magazine based in Soho, the name and company of which I'll keep to myself until I have signed on the dotted line in my own blood. But I've been offered this job and have accepted verbally, and I'm excited to have this opportunity for a firm with a good reputation, big ambitions, good managers, [View Full Entry]

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I don't have too much to report on my blog this week, but I've committed to writing it every week, so here it is. Christ, next week is December, its christmas. Not only has two months since I got home from my trip passed at a pace of like Mach 2, but the anniversary of my departure, November 9, also came around quick. On that day last year, at 10am, I was packing my mochila (backpack in spanish) at my parents house and wondering about what i was going to see and do in my trip. This year, on the same [View Full Entry]

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I almost forgot to to this week's entry in OneHorseTown-Loaferville which must be a sign of something, since that's never happened, but I dunno what. It's been a pretty rough week since I've been sick, it got very cold suddenly and everything became harder. Boo fucking hoo eh. I had to take Friday off work because I was too ill. I didn't like doing that - now I'll have to work a Monday to make the day up. Anyway, now I'm sat in front of a computer on a Sunday evening with my foot in bandages and a deadline to meet [View Full Entry]

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Having spent four years languishing in a tin pot arse-banditry joke of a company where the sole life aims of the management appeared to be nothing short of driving its staff to suicide or cocaine addiction - while forcing them to take the bullet for very poorly published items - I have to express my surprise, relief and delight in temping for a firm which is the polar opposite. It has just turned 5.30pm on a Thursday evening and our director, the owner of the firm, has switched on some Mariachi music for us all to enjoy. Now its kinda funny [View Full Entry]

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I'm writing this week's blog from the comforts of Becki and Paul's living room, plonked upon a warm leather couch, laptop perched on lap, glass of white to my left, mobile phone next to it, telly to my right. My belly is happy having been fed a thai noodle creation that Bex cooked, and I will retire after this to a very comfy double bed in my own room. In the morning I will get up and have a hot shower, chuck on my Zara suit and H&M shoes, plug myself into my iPod, get on the tube with my Oyster [View Full Entry]

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What an uncomsumate professional. I am writing this from the comfort of one of those specially designed-for-professional-comfort chairs in the office of a wealth management consultancy (I'd say 'Boutique' - its a small firm with big contracts), at ten past four on a Wednesday when I should be finishing this survey I'm writing. But I'm taking a breakout meeting of one to update my blog and chart this boat's shipping lane back into the sea of work. Or something. I am currently in the employment (contract and temp, mind) of no less than three companies. Three is my lucky number you [View Full Entry]

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