it is nice to get home to my celebri-tree at night. you would feel the same if you had diana, barry gibb and barbs, the pope and the royal family avec diana on your celebri-tree.

i've had a hard day, of being a leader and building relationships or whatever strategic approach i'm aiming for at the moment. and then to top it off i have to spend 45 minutes in a restaurant alone with someone who i have nothing in common with while we wait for our very late friends. they got a lot of abusive text messages, and i got far too much information from my companion. i asked: what would diana do? and i thought of how she probably had to sit through lots of uncomfortable dinners with the queen and was probably totally gracious about it. but lets face it she used food as a crutch. so i ordered starters for four. and ate most of them. unlike diana, i fully digested them.


i also thought to myself, this is like a blind date. i can talk my way comfortably through a first date so i can put up with this. then the questions got hard and too personal and i kept pointing out that the colour scheme of the restaurant was lovely, in a bid to avoid questions. it kind of worked. but mostly failed. she thinks i'm sleeping with a coworker. i need to be more absolute in my answers. especially when the answer is hell no. i mean, maybe if barry gibb was a coworker, then i'd consider it.


at about the twenty fifth minute i went to the bathroom for the third time, you know, for something to do. and i turned to prayer. it didn't work either.


i asked her twice what she was doing for christmas. she got angry at answering the same question twice. i asked about children. an easy conversation topic for most older women. she was more interested in her boyf. good on her too. but i'd rather not think about it. i wanted to think of her spending a wholesome christmas with her family. like diana and charles used to do, back in the day....


(note this last picture is a collage i made. of course, the boys weren't actually at the wedding. because they weren't born. because diana was a virgin bride. but i thought it would be nice to have them together for a christmas ski trip. also, is it only in NZ or all over the world where diana is headline news at the moment. i mean to say, what's with that?)