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Integral Interns and office gossip…
The office has been really busy today. We share an office with some other companies, so there are always people coming and going, but today we're practically full to the brim with interesting people. Firstly there's our new interns, Alex and David (and Terence who's in tomorrow). They're helping us set up the Debatewise Census and are making themselves very useful by researching things like the best way to make a polling group representative, and collating contact details of people we're going to ask to spread the word.And, for the gossip lovers amongst you, we have also discovered we have celebrities in our midst. Steve, who shares the open plan office with us, has been keeping it secret that he once was a chart topping artist across the Mediterranean, and one of the smaller rooms adjacent to ours has just been rented out today by an Eastenders star! Whilst I know this is not really news, I am inexplicably excited by this, and i'm not the only one. People have been talking of office social events and I suspect this is not merely because they feel like a curry.
The thing is, though, I know I should not be particularly star struck by this state of affairs. I mean loads of people need offices and celebrities really are just people. I don't even watch Eastenders, and didn't know him from Adam until someone said something and I looked him up on Wikipedia. Which I think he noticed me doing :s Is celebrity culture to blame for all this silliness? Is there anyone I could be justifiably excited about sharing an office with? Or are we fundamentally all just individuals with jobs to do?
Hmm. Rickaaaay?!
*cue Eastenders credits music*