Late.

Ok so I'm pretty late - AGAIN - with my blog updates.

Lessee..

Last weekend was crap.

The morning started out nicely, chatted and laughed with a few of my colleagues, spoke about our salary with another and then we all disappeared to our booths with our clients.

So during lunch hour, I was in my booth, thinking of taking a nap, when I heard singing.

Happy birthday singing.

I was pretty amazad because well, I didn't remember anyone telling us about her birthday and we never sing for our clients, we're not a restaurant...

So curious, I emerge from my booth, only to find cakes and a gift placed in another booth and the girls congratulating our boss.

I was like, what's all this.

Oh; Laura ! Cue awkward silence.

The girls had prepared a surprise celebration for our boss and they forgot all about me. They forgot to tell me about their plan and they forgot to come find me.

I was hurt, very much so.

I couldn't stay eat cake with them, my emotions got the best of me.

I just returned to my booth to try to nap, with wild thoughts raxing through my brain.

Did they do it on purpose? I don't think so.

But they did forget me. But it's true that we seldom see each other once work starts.

But why didn't any of the girls I spoke to earlier mention this? Because they don't care?

No, I mustn't think like this. But they did completely forget you.

And by then; Aud had come to see me, explaining that it was not voluntary, it was an honest mistake, it could've happened to any of us. They had to work quick to keep it a surprise from our boss and since I had been off on Friday they hadn't thought of sending a text msg to everyone..

So an honest mistake.

Knowing that if they were all embarassed, just AL quickly gave her apologies and Aud just felt sorry.

Otherwise no one came to see me and everyone ignored me for the rest of the evening, which made me feel even crappier.

Then FaceBook happened.

It made things so much worse. God I hate communicating when there is no voice.

So I pretty much spent my weekend crying.

Well most of it.

Sunday I was called by AK and then by AL. I told them about my past, about my fears and how being forgotten really hit deep into a sensitive nerve.

I guess they understood.

After that Olivier forced me to go out to see AK and CL. I really didn't want to do it, but it really did me tons of good.

We ate at an "American diner" Happy Days near Chatelet. It wasn't very good.

Oh well. At least the company was :)

Then we went to see La vérite si je mens 3 which I knew I wouldn't like. But I did it for the girls. Yesh...

I decided to try to keep track of the books I read, so yeah, here you go:

I finished Volume twelve of The Wheel of Time - The Gathering Storm. I was pretty skeptical at first, because it's partly written by Brandon Sanderson, and the start was pretty different than what I was used to, the writing differed. But after a few chapters, I was hooked. When I finally put it down, I was craving for more. I need to order the thirteenth volume !! :D

And I also read a few of the books a client of mine Chanty had borrowed me.

Mostly detective stories, and only in English.

I started reading The Constant Gardener by Le Carré but I just couldn't finish it.. it was boooriiiing and not well written. Apparently the film is no better... Bleh.

I wish it were written better because the story seems very interesting.

Now I'm reading Leopard by Bo Nesbø. Now this is the way a detective book should be written! It made me think of Stieg Larsson's Millenium series, but they're not comparable. Millenium was .. there are no words to describe the awesomeness of the trilogy that unfortunately never got the chance to be continued.

I saw the American remake of the first installment of Millenium. Iiiitt....was ok. But no. Read the book dudes.