Start the week

Yayyhayy it's monday ...

It's been a bit of a mixed bag today :

I spent the morning out visiting a client next to Pont de l'alma doing a needs analysis for a group of people. I'll have to go back again tomorrow : it's all a bit rushed as their training course starts on wednesday and has to be finished by the end of the year (for dodgy french accounting reasons).

I got back to the office and was about to have a coffee and a breather when one of my trainers appeared, looking very agitated.

I've nicknamed him 'The Flappper' - he's another one of these people whose stuff is arranged 'just so'. He's got one pen of every colour (and strictly no more) in his pen holder. He goes apeshit bonkers bananas if there's no flipchart paper. Woe betide if sharpened pencils are unavailable for his immediate use ... If things don't quite go according to his plans he gets itsy and antsy

It's all just a bit too anal, if you get my drift.

So, i get back to the office, have just made a nice cup of coffee and am starting to break out my chocolate biscuits, when The Flapper appears.

In a flap.

Looking flustered.

He'd been lumbered with my nympho trainee who frightens the beejebers out of him ... pffft

I've written about her before - she's a tease and just plays up at being vampy to get attention.

You can see her coming *ahem* from a mile off ... once you've got her sussed, she turns out to be a lovely person - i get on well with her and when i tell to ease up, she does so...

... but The Flapper has got it really bad, he's jabbering away, eyes bulging and is sweating profusely "I just can't work with her .. she's just tooo much .."

I tell him to take a break and i'll go and say hello to her ......

...

Instead of drinking my by now cold coffee, i thought i'd go grap a sandwitch and catch-up on my missed stuff from the morning - if you're ever in Paris and need a quick bite to eat, look out for a chaine-store type boulangerie called 'Paul': they have the best sandwiches and cakes and bread you can find...

Anyhoo, as i was traipsing down a gusty and drizzly Champs Elysées i bumped into one of my contacts i'd not seen for awhile - now working for a radio sation - and he invited me for a bite to eat.

Afterwhich, my afternoon .. just kinda .. seemed .. y'know ... to drift aimlessly by ;@)