Legends of the Seas is in port again. It's such a huge cruise ship. It is moored next to the Hilton and dwarfs it. As my Ferry came into port we turned to back in under the cliffs of the cruiser. The tiny ant people power walking around the top deck didn't even notice us. Rachelle's left the country - late yesterday afternoon. Drinks on Friday went well enough. I'm certainly not complaining about sitting with bright witty people drinking beer and watching the cricket, although Ra was seeing as she doesn't like either. She had a good time though and looked fabulous. After Mad Dogs we went along to Lenin in the Viaduct. I've seconded Ure (ra's brother) to be my new drinking buddy and scared the barman at Mad Dogs so much with my "advanced tactical flirting" that I doubt he'll ever come near me again. Ah well, just another Friday night. Phil took me home around 2:30am. The weekend was quiet - the weather was quite warm. A bit of shopping on Sunday for computery bits and pieces and some makeup made for quite a quiet two days even if they did seem very short. Luckily we have Waitangi Day on Wednesday so its another short week. Yay. --------

"So, what's she been up to then?" "I dunno. It's been pretty quiet here so far this year." "When I was rummaging, erm, looking for a pen on her desk - I noticed her 'to do' list was insanely long." "Yeh, I heard she was kinda busy." "Is it true she'll be at Mad Dogs and Gentlemen on Albert Street this Friday?" "Ah, huh. It's Rachelle's going away thing." "Cor, that'll be messy." "Amen." "Hey?" "Yeh?" "She talks a lot, right?" "Hell yeh" "So, if she's not talking here..." "Mmmm.." "Where *is* she talking?" --------

You know Rachelle? I first met her in 1999 at the National College of Multimedia and Technology during my Advanced Multimedia course. She and I were the only two women on the course to actually finish, and she was the only one in the class who enjoyed and developed a talent for, coding LINGO (the programming language of Macromedia Director). She received a special award in programming on completing the course. After I started at Aztech Productions, when we needed to grow our staff there was no hesitation for me at all - she was available and we hired her. Now, two years later Rachelle has just finished working for Aztech and is going to the United Kingdom February 3rd to make her fortune. Here, at the Learning Curve, we needed a contractor well versed in Director. Again, no hesitation, with a recommendation, Rachelle gets to spend her last week in New Zealand working out a contract here with me. How cool is that? Cool. --------