Office holiday party
Dec. 16th, 2008 08:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wendyzski....because what could be more fun than listening to drunk old men argue?
To be fair, my evening also started out with a bit of Oban 14, continued with rather a lot of nice bits of yummy dead animals on sticks, and ended with key lime pie. (Dinner was at Fogo De Chao, a Brazilian Steakhouse)
But I also got to listen to COMB pontificating about cycles in the real estate business and the idiot lawyer who shares our office space must have told me (drunkenly) at least 6 times that he'd like me to be HIS secretary. This was after I explained for the 3rd or 4th time that the little paper disk they give you to show when you want another serving of meat was not, in fact, a coaster. Eventually I settled for taking it out from under his wine glass and flipping it appropriatiely when I saw a server. I think the accounting manager and the marketing director ended up doing the same for COMB. (I sure as hell wasn't going to sit next to him - I have to take his crap all DAY!) So instead I got drunk lawyer on my left and amusingly snarky regional manager on my right.
So at least that was one last holiday stressor to get through. That and getting the last of my prezzies shipped out this morning means that now I can relax and try to find some Holiday spirit somewhere. If this snow stops soon I'm considering a trip after work to see the Zoo Lights at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Free admission, pretty lights, and fluffy animals sound about right now...
To be fair, my evening also started out with a bit of Oban 14, continued with rather a lot of nice bits of yummy dead animals on sticks, and ended with key lime pie. (Dinner was at Fogo De Chao, a Brazilian Steakhouse)
But I also got to listen to COMB pontificating about cycles in the real estate business and the idiot lawyer who shares our office space must have told me (drunkenly) at least 6 times that he'd like me to be HIS secretary. This was after I explained for the 3rd or 4th time that the little paper disk they give you to show when you want another serving of meat was not, in fact, a coaster. Eventually I settled for taking it out from under his wine glass and flipping it appropriatiely when I saw a server. I think the accounting manager and the marketing director ended up doing the same for COMB. (I sure as hell wasn't going to sit next to him - I have to take his crap all DAY!) So instead I got drunk lawyer on my left and amusingly snarky regional manager on my right.
So at least that was one last holiday stressor to get through. That and getting the last of my prezzies shipped out this morning means that now I can relax and try to find some Holiday spirit somewhere. If this snow stops soon I'm considering a trip after work to see the Zoo Lights at the Lincoln Park Zoo. Free admission, pretty lights, and fluffy animals sound about right now...
