Late to work

Oh no. With my care factor fairly close to zero, I'm not too worried about it.

Actually, I had my exam at Unitec for my Digital Communication Applications course that I've been doing at summer school.

So the exam went well and I went to catch a bus to work. The bus driver of the 043 that came told me that I should get on the next bus because that route would only be 2 stages and his route would charge me 3. So with 1 minute to spare, I ran to catch the 10:59am train. If you can do math, you will already realise that it was 10:58am when I left the bus stop.

But the train did not come at 10:59am. Instead at 11:07am there was an announcement come over the loudspeaker that trains were delayed by between 7 and 12 minutes. So I had a maximum of 4 more minutes to wait:

10:59am + 12 minutes maximum wait = 11:11am
11:11am - 11:07am current time = 4 minutes!

So what's the point of all this maths? There isn't one. I was late to work, that's the point.

Anyway to make me even later, I saw Genevieve at Britomart and talked to her about Kiwiburn and how she'd overheard Bex (1) and Red talking about Bex (2) at Roasted Addiction.

Then I went into Starbucks and saw Bex (1) and talked to her about how the flat was going, I didn't mention her conversation with Red that had now found its way through the Auckland gossip circle. I wonder if I should have?

I got an Iced Tall Americano and walked to work. The receptionist today is hotter than the one that I unsuccessfully hit on last year. With only 1 week to go before I leave Datacom, I'm wondering if I should hit on the new one?

Anyway, I'm at work now, feeling a touch guilty for being late. Then a thought occurs to me, maybe I had the excellent organisational skills and foresight to have arranged to have the day off to do my exam? I go through my emails and find the following:

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From: Nathan Champion
Sent: Tuesday, 9 October 2007 4:02 p.m.
To: Joe Nacagilevu
Subject: RE: Xmas Leave

Hi Joe,

I need the following leave. Happy to go on call over the Christmas period.

y Media challenge – Oct 29th - Nov 9th (2 weeks)
Jury summons – Nov 19th - Nov 23rd (up to 1 week)
Unitec summer school – Dec 17th - Dec 20th (4 days)
Unitec summer school – Jan 15th - Jan 18th (4 days)
Unitec exam – Jan 25th

Regards,
Nathan
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So what am I doing at work then? Oh yeah blogging, I forgot. Opps!