'Puters, Jobs and Wine
Thanks for the various recommendations re: Typepad and WordPress. I've had a little play on Typepad and still need to have a trial on Wordpress. But until the new 'puter arrives, I'm not trying to do anything too ambitious as this 'puter is very ill indeed and keeps losing connection, freezing, crashing etc.
Just come back from a lovely 4 mile dander across Ilkley Moor. Weather was gorgeous and we finished up with some nice homemade soup in a cafe. Tonight I am cooking up a storm with Jamie Olivers Monkfish wrapped in Parma Ham and Basil and Dried Tomato pesto, served with baked potatoes and Sophie Grigson's Jerusalem Artichokes with pancetta and breadcrumbs. Can you tell I have an assignment due? Yesterday I cooked up a vat of chicken stock and then went mountain boarding with AIF and soon to be MrAIF. Well, they boarded, I watched. So a great big fat zero on the assignment.
My problem with this particular assignment is that it asks me to examine the relationships within my current company. I spent Friday bitching with my boss about how crap it is, and his view is that we should just get on and do our own thing. This isn't good enough. I want an interdependent firm, where what one office does complements what another does, and we don't have to keep reinventing the wheel. Argghhhh! Luckily I have an interview with G on 9th May (this time the formal one), so I am reading
Mainly so I can start to formulate what it really is that I want out of my next job move. I want to make the leap from do-er to orchestrator (why else would I be doing the MBA) and I don't want to cock it all up with a crap interview.
With this in mind, I need to flatten the stomach and buy a hot new suit. I did well last couple of weeks with weights and the long steady state cardio, but food and especially alcohol has been atrocious. This week I have a day long seminar on Tuesday and an evening buffet on Thursday, then an afternoon gig on Sunday. That pretty much accounts for my 20% - the other 80% I shall endeavour to be good.
Good to remember that 20% is roughly 1.5 days or if you have 3 main meals a day, 4-5 meals a week. If you have 5 meals a day, that ends up being 7. If you look at it another way, if you are sticking to say 1600 calories a day, then that's 2240 calories a week. In wine and cheese (175ml red wine and 25g gouda at 213 calories) that's 10 occasions a week. Which if you follow Food Doctor's principle of no more than 2 glasses of wine a day, and no two days in a row, then actually, you end up with a maximum of 8 glasses of wine a week (950 cals) and about 1000 left over for cheese and chocolate. I can see I am beginning formulating a plan...
Really must do some work on this assignment...
Posted by littlemissgreedy
at 4:23 PM BST