I must say it was a very tiring trip home - over 40 hours and in the end, you know to get home Ihad to catch a car, then a plane, then a mini bus, then another minibus, then a plane, then a train, then a plane and then another bus andall of that on my own with 54kgs of luggage! So little wonder I all butcollapsed when I got there. And then no sooner than I was home, about 4days, I had to pack and drive to Canberra - another 6 hours in a car -where I dropped off all my stuff and flew to Sydney - now I have justlanded back in Canberra where I will be living. Phew - it is exhaustingjust writing it...
Also I find that travelling in this direction it takes a while to getover the jet lag. My mum said that at about 4.30 each day I would literally and instantly fall unconscious into a deep, deep sleep and start snoring very loudly...he he.. I am such an elegant woman :) That was sort of because of the sleepless nights - on the first night home I got up at 2 am, woke my poor mum up (accidentally) and then, because shewas awake, I thought it was a really good idea to try on all the newclothes I had bought in London and do a fashion parade for her mmm - I am sure she loved it - then because all that made me hungry she got upand cooked me scambled eggs! I think she was rather glad when I left :)
I must say I am very happy to be home. I feel much more grounded and settled and looking forward to my new life as a corporate lawyer. Having said that my last few days in London in particular were very nice- on the Friday night I went out for dinner with Mary, and Zoe and Sandra (a few buddies we had made in London), on Saturday dear Ingrid came and spent my last day in London with me and on the Sunday morning the lovely Trish and Grahman got out of bed very earlyand drove me to teh airport at Heathrow - such a random act of kindness:)
My excitement at the airport was that I saw James Blunt and Madonna -Madonna was actually on my plane - it was so exciting I was like a starstruck kid. LA was interesting and no Mary - I wont judge all of the US by my visit to LA...AND my hotel was just fine!
I went in yesterday to work and met a few people, I officially startMonday. It will be interesting - never one to enjoy bureacracy or closemonitoring I am now deeply embedded in both. I also met the partner Iwill be mostly working with and he seems fine... He is really happy I am older - his first question was how oldare you (!) and he seemed rather relieved inviting me immediatley to a client dinner on my first offical day Monday - rather funny I suppose :)
I find it a veryexciting time to be here in the centre of government when we have had a radical change of government - yes I am rather odd..
Friday, February 29, 2008
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
On my way home....i.e life in the corporate lawyer lane
Hello all - it seems like forever since I have written anything to anyone.. As some of you know I am with Pfizer and am working with the Viagra team as we speak (see the joke below)!
Well I am on my way home this Sunday and after a lot of deliberation -ie my boss upped my already ridiculously high salary higher to encourage me to stay another 6 months - I am very pleased about it!
A corporate lawyer in Canberra - a new chapter in the never-ending-story and an interesting one I'm sure. I will be back in town next week, ie Melbourne, and will try to catch up with you where I can before I go to Canberra.
England is wonderful and I hope one day to be able to come back but now this meandering, backwards, forwards, sideways journey I have been on over the last 5 years since I embarked on my mid-life change of career crisis is coming to an end.
From Melbourne to Sudan to Melbourne to Sudan to Canberra to England and back to Canberra again...it hasn't always been easy, but really I wouldnt have changed any of it - or maybe I would have stayed in Sudan a bit longer and maybe one less trip back to Aus....And now I can't wait for the next phase :)
OK my lovely friends, acquaintaces and others - see you soon :)++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++This This is very funny!
In Pharmacology, all drugs have twonames, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name ofTylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also calledNaproxen. Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also calledIbuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.
Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available inliquid form, and will be marketed by PepsiCola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now bepossible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously wecan no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to thenames 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned 'stiffdrink'. Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.
There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today thanon Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be alarge elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections andabsolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
Well I am on my way home this Sunday and after a lot of deliberation -ie my boss upped my already ridiculously high salary higher to encourage me to stay another 6 months - I am very pleased about it!
A corporate lawyer in Canberra - a new chapter in the never-ending-story and an interesting one I'm sure. I will be back in town next week, ie Melbourne, and will try to catch up with you where I can before I go to Canberra.
England is wonderful and I hope one day to be able to come back but now this meandering, backwards, forwards, sideways journey I have been on over the last 5 years since I embarked on my mid-life change of career crisis is coming to an end.
From Melbourne to Sudan to Melbourne to Sudan to Canberra to England and back to Canberra again...it hasn't always been easy, but really I wouldnt have changed any of it - or maybe I would have stayed in Sudan a bit longer and maybe one less trip back to Aus....And now I can't wait for the next phase :)
OK my lovely friends, acquaintaces and others - see you soon :)++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++This This is very funny!
In Pharmacology, all drugs have twonames, a trade name and generic name. For example, the trade name ofTylenol also has a generic name of Acetaminophen. Aleve is also calledNaproxen. Amoxil is also called Amoxicillin and Advil is also calledIbuprofen.
The FDA has been looking for a generic name for Viagra. After careful consideration by a team of government experts, it recently announced that it has settled on the generic name of Mycoxafloppin. Also considered were Mycoxafailin, Mydixadrupin, Mydixarizin, Dixafix, and of course, Ibepokin.
Pfizer Corp. announced today that Viagra will soon be available inliquid form, and will be marketed by PepsiCola as a power beverage suitable for use as a mixer. It will now bepossible for a man to literally pour himself a stiff one. Obviously wecan no longer call this a soft drink, and it gives new meaning to thenames 'cocktails', 'highballs' and just a good old-fashioned 'stiffdrink'. Pepsi will market the new concoction by the name of: MOUNT & DO.
There is more money being spent on breast implants and Viagra today thanon Alzheimer's research. This means that by 2040, there should be alarge elderly population with perky boobs and huge erections andabsolutely no recollection of what to do with them.
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