Day: March 18, 2003

I quit my job today.

It was a rather strange and oddly liberating experience actually. Suddenly everything I have stressed about for the last two and a 1/4 years at work is of absolutely no consequence (well, of course it was always inconsequential, but now I don’t have to worry about it anymore; it is well and truly somebody else’s problem). Rather bizarrely, I am still pretending that I haven’t resigned, as my boss is (ahem) “working from home” today and tomorrow and wants to tell the rest of the department first himself.

Anyway, I have spent the afternoon listening to the Commons Iraq debate on Radio 4, just to darken my otherwise sunny disposition.

This is a very interesting article about media coverage of Gulf War I. Funny thing happened to me on the way to work this morning. I was reading that Metro rag on the train (yes, I know, but the letters page is unintentionally hilarious and I try not to make a habit of it). Anyway, they described the response to Robin Cook’s resignation speech as consisting of “warm applause”. That’s funny, I was under the impression he got a highly un-Parliamentary standing ovation.

Well, I said there would be other contributors, and now there are. Disappearing text and initial teething problems aside, rob’s page is now up and running. Home to Paste Magazine’s very own “Bridget Jones” (Days since my last cigarette? c’mon….)