...and the rest
Well, first of all I felt kind of guilty about this - or sleazy at any rate, but a few weeks back when Indy was out of the office I nobbled her computer so that I could access her e-mail inbox from my PC. Today I finally got round to taking advantage of this in an organised way, and I discovered that she's been flirting with yet another member of the technical team, in this case Padraig, starting I think back in early 2004.
Some banter about massages - she tried that same tack with me early on but I felt it best not to offer my services in an e-mail - lunch invitations and then in Sept this year a suggestion of a Bollywood movie or a picnic on Hampstead Heath "before the weather turns". Hmmmm.
I think this has actually rekindled something in me, a definite warm feeling where just this morning I was feeling cold and dead. I suppose the worst case scenario was that she was having an exclusive affair with Bob, and now I have to rethink that. It's not entirely clear what's been going on - there's nothing graphic, so it may well be just the same sort of mildly flirtatious friendship that I have with her. Not sure.
Also an e-mail from Bob himself, some time before his departure, asking "how soon is "soon"?", eliciting the reply "before very long" and finishing with him suggesting lunch "in the meantime". And something post-departure from Esther, one of the repairs caller centre people, saying that a mutual friend had been in touch and sent his best wishes. Esther seemed to be on rather good terms with her, actually.
In any event, she clearly has an even busier social life than I might have envisaged, even if I don't know quite what's involved in it. Perhaps she just likes attention? Perhaps once we're not working together a door will open. Who knows? Who cares?
Anyway, I sent her an e-mail welcoming her back to work and suggesting lunch some time soon, which she said would be "wonderful", so that all seems to be going OK. Her home life seems a little fraught though, still, one daughter still has this foot episode underway and another is ill. With four kids one of them's always going to have a problem at any given moment I guess.
Some banter about massages - she tried that same tack with me early on but I felt it best not to offer my services in an e-mail - lunch invitations and then in Sept this year a suggestion of a Bollywood movie or a picnic on Hampstead Heath "before the weather turns". Hmmmm.
I think this has actually rekindled something in me, a definite warm feeling where just this morning I was feeling cold and dead. I suppose the worst case scenario was that she was having an exclusive affair with Bob, and now I have to rethink that. It's not entirely clear what's been going on - there's nothing graphic, so it may well be just the same sort of mildly flirtatious friendship that I have with her. Not sure.
Also an e-mail from Bob himself, some time before his departure, asking "how soon is "soon"?", eliciting the reply "before very long" and finishing with him suggesting lunch "in the meantime". And something post-departure from Esther, one of the repairs caller centre people, saying that a mutual friend had been in touch and sent his best wishes. Esther seemed to be on rather good terms with her, actually.
In any event, she clearly has an even busier social life than I might have envisaged, even if I don't know quite what's involved in it. Perhaps she just likes attention? Perhaps once we're not working together a door will open. Who knows? Who cares?
Anyway, I sent her an e-mail welcoming her back to work and suggesting lunch some time soon, which she said would be "wonderful", so that all seems to be going OK. Her home life seems a little fraught though, still, one daughter still has this foot episode underway and another is ill. With four kids one of them's always going to have a problem at any given moment I guess.
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