Work.

I decided that if I couldn't think of anything exciting to write about I would just write about work, mainly because work really isn't that exciting. Not that I have done much recently.

Last week I returned to what I did for a whole year, temping. I'm not going to blow my own trumpet or anything but I am pretty nifty on a switchboard, pass me a switchboard and eventually I will forward your call, most likely to the wrong person or after quite a long time of you being on hold because I cant find the right number or person to put you through to. You get there eventually.

Anyway when I am at work I have a phone voice. Does everyone have a phone voice? I don't have it when I am using the phone normally I don't think, just when I am at work. The phone voice changes as well depending on who I am talking to and where I am working. Once I had to speak French on the phone to someone....well in France....who had called my office by accident, I had a really confused phone voice for that occasion. I even take the phone voice home with me sometimes and find myself answering my home phone with the intention of going "good afternoon, (insert company name), Natasha speaking, how can I help you?" which absolutely is not the way to answer the phone to your grandmother.

Sometimes when I am at work I get to listen to music. The job I currently have which has nothing to do with offices plays music all the time, sometimes this a curse as much as a musical blessing. Last week at work I had music on but the music played was essentially local radio aimed at middle aged women music and so I thought "hey that would make a brilliant playlist", obviously because it fits in with the rest of the music I have put on here previously. Now as a gift to you, I give you the opportunity to pretend you are at work with me so stick on your Britney Spears style headset, fetch a magazine, switchboard and cup of tea and stick on my "Desk Soundtrack".

1. Haven't Met You Yet - Michael Buble
2. You're Still the One - Shania Twain
3. Respect - Aretha Franklin
4. Patience - Take That
5. Truly Madly Deeply - Savage Garden
6. Breakfast at Tiffanys - Deep Blue Something
7. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
8. When You Say Nothing at All - Ronan Keating

(tis 8, I failed at more.)

Good Afternoons and Telephones,
t xx