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Uhoh trouble ahead... 12.30pm, and things are not going well. A large european internet portal which i'm responsible for technically went down, for no reason. We hadn't touched the site for days, no changes ... nothing.. and pop - it didn't work.. right just i had to leave the office to go an do an assessed presentation at university.
Ah ha! I hear you shout.. actimel didn't help you out there did it?! well, i'll let you in to a secret. I forgot to take it this morning - AND LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!!!
Running around like a mad man I call the people in Germany who look after the servers, desperate to find a resolution to the situation which was giving me kittens, and all i can think of is those little bottles of yoghurt in the fridge which i'd forgotten to drink this morning. How could i have been so careless? But to no avail, everyone I needed to speak to in the German office was not in front of a computer to be able to do anything.. so i leave work head spinning with fears that the site is severely broken, and wander into my assessment - not having had time for lunch and tummy rumbling louder than an American President throwing his toys out of the pram about alleged weapons of mass destruction.
5pm and i leave the lecture, presentation done, and not feeling sooo bad about stuff. i call the german office to see if the woman who had been helping me out was around to get an update - but when the phone was picked up, someone started talking german at me. to my surprise, i answered in german and asked to speak to her. he replied that she wasn't in the office as she'd gone home for the evening - to which i thanked him and said goodbye.
Upon arrival at the office - i check the server, and it seems to be resolved, without word from anyone. Sat confused, i look around and scratch my beard when Kirsty sms's me to say not to worry, as after hearing i'd missed my actimel, she had drank one for me, at around 4pm.
Okay, so now, i'm terrified. I don't dare not to drink actimel.. if i miss it ever again, what else could go tragically wrong? Although I did not move any closer to happiness today, the lack ingestion of actimel by me did throw my life into total blairwitch like terror, and the subsequent drinking of the product at a later time on my behalf seemed to resolve the situation - to which end i will today give actimal 2 bonus points. (and thank you thank you thank you to kirsty for, well frankly, saving my life).
actimel (and unrepetant fear of impending doom) 5 - cynicism 1
