When she got there...

[j4]

The tuck shop has been replaced by a stationery cupboard. The change is so complete, so unprovisional, that I suddenly wonder if I have in fact been hallucinating the tuck shop for the past year or so: munching my way through chocolate-bar-sized highlighter pens, chugging back bottles of Tipp-ex, occasionally giving in to the temptation of a Tunnock's caramel printer cartridge.

How's your lunchbreak?

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[nja.livejournal.com]

Long since over (I eat lunch at about 12 left to my own devices). A quick sandwich. A while ago I made a decision to take an hour at lunchtimes and do something different - read a book, go for a walk, achieve enlightenment by meditating on the cosmic wheel of karma, or something like that. I seem to have slipped back into stuffing my face with grub for 10 minutes while thinking about disk formatting and de-virusing a colleague's laptop.

[j4.livejournal.com]

That sounds familiar, modulo a slightly different variant on the head/brick interface.

My Use Lunchbreak Wisely resolutions have taken various forms: sitting in the common room and reading for an hour, going for a walk around the site, even doing different computer-based stuff (I started working through an hour of "Javascript in 24 hours" each lunchtime, but that only lasted for about three days).

Tomorrow lunchtime I'm doing a psychology experiment: exercise (bike into town and back), social usefulness (helping somebody else do their research), and CASH (about 6 quid).

I should bring more books into work to encourage me to read over lunch. Reading thick technical tomes over lunch seems liable to give me indigestion.

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

I was expecting a rather odd lunchbreak, having been invited to a working lunch with the title of "What turns engineers on?"

(Un?)fortunately it turned out to be to do with a new recruitment campaign; our parent company has hired some marketing consultants to find out how best to appeal to the type of people they want to attract. The result was three engineers in a room with a marketing consultant and a large plate of sandwiches and chocolate biscuits.

Could have been worse. At least the marketing consultant was quite human.

[vinaigrettegirl.livejournal.com]

I expected this to end: at least the marketing consultant was quite tasty.

But apparently not.

[geekette8.livejournal.com]

Ha ha! Actually, he wasn't bad, now you come to mention it... :-)

[oinomel71.livejournal.com]

The result was three engineers in a room with a marketing consultant and a large plate of sandwiches and chocolate biscuits.

Just to be absolutely clear, was that the result of the invitation or the result of the discussion?

[taimatsu]

Lunchbreak? Hmm, perhaps I should have breakfast.

[mouse262.livejournal.com]

Annoyingly the UL was still closed today. So I ate on site instead. Comfy chair - soup, yogurt and bana, and read "A Fourth Form Friendship". I like to take a full hour at lunch.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

I'll let you know in a few hours.

[missjudas.livejournal.com]

I had a similar feeling once when they removed a door at work, and replaced it with identical panelling to the walls either side of where it had once stood. Strangely, the effect was so good that I had a hard time convincing my colleagues - who had worked there much longer than I - that there did, indeed, used to be a door there.

[(Anonymous)]

Neatly demonstrating its difference from a stationary cupboard.

[barnacle.livejournal.com]

Dom Joly moved my cheese straws.

[mair_in_grenderich]

Gosh, look!