01.22.07

Caitlin is doing a snow dance

Posted in Career, London at 10.45 pm by niltiac

After months of unseasonally warm weather, it’s finally getting cold. Apparently it could even snow this week, although the official forecast is only for sleet.

I hope it snows – sleet is nasty and cold and wet whereas snow is beautiful and romantic and cold and wet. So I’m doing my best snow dance right now. The daffodils on my window sill are a bit confused and have already started budding so I have brought them in in anticipation.

I really felt the cold today as my stockings were quite sheer and I left my gloves and hat at home. I didn’t expect to be outside for long but then there was a bomb scare in the building I work in! I am acting news editor at Media Week until the end of February. It’s only three days a week, which is quite nice and still gives me time to do other things.

I got to work at 9.30am (the official starting time) and the building was already in the process of being evacuated. We had to go stand in the park for half an hour, which was mighty cold! Then a few of us escaped to a colleague’s place for much needed hot tea and Christmas cake.

We were finally allowed back in two hours later and it was a mad sprint to put the magazine out since today was press day. We lost two hours from our working day on the busiest day of the week, we didn’t drop any pages and our print slot only moved half an hour! And the deputy editor was ill. Hey ho! We made it and I don’t think the results were too shabby.

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