Work totty.

I have a rule about not dating someone from work. It's not just dating either... it's the odd snog or a one night stand too that I've also ruled out. It's probably a silly rule, but I value my privacy and it was people poking into me and FBS that caused me to put the "rule" in place. I'm not going to say that it's a deal-breaker. I would guess that, were I to meet someone special, that rule would mean little, but the last person who ticked those boxes was QC3.

Over the years, there have been plenty of people that I've been attracted to at work but never pursued because of my rule. You just have to look at the girls I talk about and see how many of them are ex-work colleagues: QC2, QC3, E, FBS, Pretty Blonde and Lickable Girl. Some of them I know well and some are just girls I'd bump into in the corridor.  

This was a conversation I had with a few mates when out in the pub last night. We were talking about work totty. I've been "lucky" enough to have worked alongside some really attractive and sexy girls. I've had about five different teams with my current employer and each of them has had at least one very attractive girl. 

Obviously my friends wanted to know why, if I work with attractive women, do I not date any of them. The only one I've mentioned on here so far is SSCW, but I'm not attracted to any of them enough I would break my rule for. There is a girl in work that I am interested in, a friend of M's girlfriend, and she's separated from her husband. I'd have to get more information though before doing anything.

Just my luck

There's a lot to talk about, but I really don't have the time or mental capacity right now to cover it all in detail, so I'm going to stick with a small part of the weekend.

While out in a pub on other business, FP got talking to a girl and her friend. He looked in need of rescue, so I made myself available and was introduced. These were two girls from New Zealand who were in the city on a weekend trip. I called across a mate of mine who's also from New Zealand and we all got talking. FP managed to slip away, and I ended up talking to the friend.

She was gorgeous – blonde, about 5' 4" and, probably the most important factor as far as I'm concerned, she was extremely easy to talk to. I've never been verbose and I'm absolutely useless at (amongst other things) making small talk. However, it was really easy with this girl and it became apparent very early on that this was more than just idle pub chat. There was a spark of something more there.

Usually when I realise that, I fall apart, especially in front of an audience, and there was an audience of about fifteen blokes that knew me in some shape or form. I've rarely pulled in those situations mainly down to "stage fright" and the fact this obsession with my own privacy means I don't want people to know what I'm up to.

Anyway, this time, I didn't bottle it and we chatted until kicking out time. As we were drinking in the busiest area of the city for taxis, FP and I suggested that it would be quicker for the girls to walk to their hotel and we'd accompany them if they wanted. They did, so we started walking. The other guys went elsewhere while we walked the girls back to their hotel. On the way we continued our chat while FP kept the other girl a discrete distance away.

Back at the girls' hotel, we chatted for a few more minutes before they left. I got a great, lingering hug (she seemed very reluctant to let go) that might have gone further had her friend not pulled her away to retire for the evening. FP and I sat on for a few more minutes then grabbed a taxi home each.

I had really enjoyed her company and found her interesting. Although she lives in London, I really wanted to get contact details from her, just to see if we could keep in contact, but it was something I never thought about until after she had gone. I had considered leaving my number behind reception for her, but as I only knew her first name, I really couldn't do it.

I'm really disappointed that we couldn't take things further or that I didn't get contact details because she's the most promising girl I've met in a long time (even more so than PB or Lickable Girl).

Yin and yang.

So after the day with E, the subsequent relaxing recovery day, today was back to work.

It was quite good, actually. Sarah Silverman co-worker came over for a chat, interrogating me about my absence. Like plenty of women, when she heard I was out and about with E, her gossip radar picked up and when she asked if we were an item (or had any history of being an item or any intentions of being an item) I, of course, answered in the negative.

Either way, it's nice to actually sit down and chat to SSCW (as she will be known from now on) and I wish it was something we could do more often. I think she likes me, as opposed to being someone she works with, because the people she sits around aren't the type for conversations, instead burying themselves in their work. With me, she gets a bit of banter and I think she enjoys that.

While out and about at lunchtime, I spotted Pretty Blonde. It's been months since I realised she'd left our employer, but possibly longer since she had actually left. It was the same old story, mind you. Eye contact, something that might have been a spark of interest ( it could just as easily been recognition), though I was with a co-worker, so no chance of striking up a conversation. My stance remains... if I see her in a bar when I'm out with mates rather than co-workers, I'll talk to her. Actually, I guess the same would apply to Lickable Girl, too.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

So, whilst trawling around our company intranet today, I happened to notice that Pretty Blonde was no longer mentioned in the email list. On one hand, that should be disappointing, right? A pretty girl that I'm attracted to leaves work (shades of Lickable Girl here, too), which is pretty much the only place I get to see her. The logical assumption is that I should be gutted, right?

Strangely, I'm not. At least, not a lot. The only time I really managed to see PB was at our monthly work's bashes and I've repeatedly mentioned that I would never approach anyone at a work's do, unless circumstances were really favourable (i.e. loads and loads of privacy away from prying eyes and ears). Why should PB leaving the company be any different? none, actually. My stance hasn't changed: if I see PB out and about in the town, I'll make an effort. I'd even go so far as to say that seeing as we no longer work for the same company that I might even be a little more forward than I would have been ordinarily. Maybe the same could be said for her (which would make things a lot easier!)

The same would probably apply to LG too, but she doesn't live in the city so chances of seeing her are remote. I don't actually know if PB lives in the city, but I have at least seen her out socialising - nearly a year ago exactly, strangely.

A typical woman.

After posting about the picture of Lickable Girl that I had found (and subsequently passed on to USHW), USHW asked a lot of questions about the various people mentioned on my blog (mostly the females) and various histories etc.

I hope my answers satisfied her. It reminded me again that I am quite useless at talking about myself unless prompted. USHW's questions provided me with what I needed to talk about myself. I doubt I would have done so otherwise.

Stop the press! (Who is that?)

Oooooh, I've just stumbled across a picture of Lickable Girl!

Man, I haven't thought about her in months since she left for another firm/career/who knows!

I must point USHW towards this.

It's a pity though cos the picture really doesn't do her any justice at all.

Another work's night out.

So here we are at some ungodly time of the morning. I woke up about half an hour ago and can't get back to sleep. I'll post this and see if I can't grab some kip.

Last night was a bit weird. Yet another work's do. On the plus side, Lickable Girl was there, despite the fact she's left our company and looking (in my opinion, though it seems to be a minority) mighty fine. Sadly, I didn't get a chance to talk to her – she spent all night (well, the few hours she was there) talking to her ex-colleagues. It was still nice to see her, though.

Pretty Blonde. Remember her from last month? Well, she was spotted too, but showing absolutely no interest at all in me, so I probably imagined whatever it was I saw at last month's thing. Shame… she is kinda cute and has a nice ass.

So our team went out for a few beers, but despite a few of us turning up early, we got fragmented again. It happens with our team all the time. It didn't really bother me until last night, but one of the guys was concerned and wanted to know why. It appears that half the team takes itself off because of a perception that I don't like one of the newer team members. I'm not entirely sure that it's an accurate perception, but it would be right to say that this new team member is, well, frustrating.

I'm sure he's a decent enough chap, but I find myself not wanting to talk to him because he has a habit of interrupting. If someone in the team asks me for advice or help, he interrupts when I'm about to speak. If I'm having a conversation with someone across the desk, he interrupts from twenty feet away. If he asks me to explain something to him, he interrupts me to repeat what I said in the previous sentence. I find this incredibly rude and off-putting when trying to talk to someone and so I try to limit the conversations I have with him. I'm sure he does this with other people, but I'm probably the only person who has distanced himself from the guy because of it.

I don't think it's enough to make half the team piss off and do their own thing on a night out, is it?

*sob*

Reports filtering through to me today have indicated that Lickable Girl has left work for another firm! Noooooo! There goes my perving opportunities at work dos!

Things to do...

Well, after that weird weekend, it's time to sit down and consider what's going on.

I have several potential irons in the fire, so to speak, so what am I going to do?

Well, first things first, I'm going to see if E's about this weekend. I haven't seen her since her birthday and it'd be ghreat to catch up. I drop her an email or send a text to see when she's available.

I think, next week, I'll see where the PD thing is going (if anywhere). I'm off work this week, but after I catch up on my return, I'll push for meeting up for a drink ASAP and if I'm not getting anywhere fast, then I'll simply stop contact again and leave the ball firmly in her court.

The tricky one is this potential interest from the Pretty Blonde from Friday and Saturday night. Like Lickable Girl, the trouble here is getting her into a social situation to be able to ascertain what's going on and one that's preferably away from any other work colleagues. That's something I have to work on (but given my complete lack of advancement with Lickable Girl, the Pretty Blonde might be a no-goer, too).

A weird feeling.

I was at a work function last night (or maybe I should say "Friday". What time is it?) It involved a lot of us going to a local pub and getting trolleyed. I like these work things... it's a good chance to kick back and have a good perv at the females who (in my own opinion) tend to look better during the 'dress down' days as they do in normal 'business attire' (and there are some cracking looking girls in work, although not to the standard of Lickable Girl).

Yesterday was a bit weird though. I caught one group of girls paying particular attention to the small group of colleagues I was circulating with. One girl, in particular, was a very pretty blonde with a great smile. She's totally not my "type" (as previously identified, quite accurately, by F and E separately), but there is something intriguing about her, nonetheless.

Tonight, I was out with my friends AM, C, MA2 and QC1 and who walks in the door of the bar I'm drinking in but the cute blonde. Over the course of the night, I do catch her sneaking the odd look, confirming what I had thought last night that I was the one being picked out. Sadly though, tonight was an "occasion", so I couldn't really leave the party and pursue this any further and then she disappeared to who knows where. I'll have to wait until I go back to work and see what's going on here.

Just like a bus...

After saying yesterday that I hadn't seen Lickable Girl in ages, I bump into her twice today. She was wearing a rather fetching red summery dress, but I still think she looks best in a plain jeans and t-shirt.

Confusion.

I got a letter from USHW today. Hurrah! She promised ages ago to send one and here it is!

So, this post's kind of dedicated to USHW, with a few questions for her thrown in, too.

Brief Status Report:
Lickable girl: not seen LG in a while now. Bumped into her at a work bash a few weeks ago, but in my semi-pissed state completely lost the power of speech and after a chirpy "Hi, LG!", couldn't speak a word.

PD: I stopped emailing months ago after I decided I was doing all the running and getting absolutely nowhere, despite making several requests to meet up. (Yes, I was incredibly pro-active). I sent a mail a few days ago as she's graduating soon, so I just dropped her a line to congratulate her. She asked me to stay in touch and included a "we'll really have to head out for that drink soon". Yeah, right. I'll give her a couple of weeks, then it's dumpsville (again), PD.

E: It's E's birthday this week and I've been invited down her direction to celebrate. That'll mean that, for the first time ever, I get to meet her brothers and sister. The taxi home will be a pain in the arse, and because of that, I'm kind of considering inventing an excuse at the last minute for not going (I know, slapped wrists). I'll make a decision at the weekend when I see what the weather's like...

OK, that's enough of an update. I'll be more verbose when I write back. I haven't decided if that's an email or letter yet, but something's going to come your way.

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Well, where to start? On Vally's Day, I got TWO e-cards. One was a platonic one from USHW, which was very much appreciated plus another one from an unknown source that erm... wasn't. I hate not knowing stuff like that, so I sent an email to the Gmail account asking for their identity, but I doubt I'll ever get a reply.

I did chicken out of sending cards to any of the females who are currently taking my fancy - that'd be about three, I think. I blame the lack of contact details, but really, I have email addresses so I could have sent e-cards quite easily. Maybe I should just blame the fact that I'm chicken, especially when it comes to women. Meh.

As you might have guessed, things haven't moved on at all on any front. PD's still the most difficult woman in the world to get hold of and I haven't seen Lickable Girl from work in months. In fact, thinking back on it, I don't think I've seen her since before Xmas. That's most definitely my loss.

I have caught up with QC2, who was telling me all about her trip to NYC (thankfully, she returned a few days before the HUGE snowstorm hit), and it sounds like a fantastic place to visit. I haven't seen E since she came home from her skiing trip, so I will make a point of contacting her this week to see if we can't meet up or something.

Going away next weekend for a weekend on the booze with the lads, which promises to be excellent - lots of booze and lots of fun. Looking forward to that, already. I think I'm going to arrange a talk with the boss, too. I have concerns regarding work that need addressing if things are going to go well for everyone in my team this year, otherwise it could be a looong year.

Xmas bash

I have been ill over the weekend - nothing serious mind - just a bad combination of stomach bug and the possible onset of the 'flu. I'm starting to feel much better though. I'll probably return to work tomorrow and make it through the day.

The issue is that it's our work's Xmas bash tomorrow night and I really can't see myself being in the mood to go - especially if I'm coming down off this bug/'flu thing. Plus, the Lickable Girl from work's not even going, which is a crying shame as this would really reduce the perving opportunities (plus there is/was a real chance to have an actual conversation with her rather than just say "hello" and then grab a sneaky perv). Damnit.

Another day of perving.

Today I had the immense good fortune to see a lot of gorgeous, Lickable Girl. We bumped into each other at least four or five times to day (which, when you consider that until yesterday, I hadn't seen her in weeks) is quite a lot. She always smiles and says "hi", but I'm not entirely sure that she knows my name or anything (she has no reason to, after all).

An email from USHW has prompted some thought...

I think I need to find out if she's single or what the score is there. There was a story that went around that one of her ex-colleagues tried it on at every opportunity which suggests to me that she was single at the time, so I'll take that as a positive step. The issue is that I am quite a private person, so if I try and find out, I'll also be trying to keep it quiet around work and specifically my work-mates. That's the tricky part. I could easily find out tomorrow if she's single, but the entire world would know that I was hunting down that information. That's the last thing I want.

If I can find out her relationship status and keep it from my colleagues, who knows what I might do next?

I think the next most likely option is that something develops between me and PD, but as I said yesterday, if anything, it's just case of lust on my part and would be unlikely to develop into anything other than a fuck or series of fucks at best (from a non-platonic point of view). I've not met many women where that would be seen as an acceptable option, though. All we can do is see what happens...

USHW suggested a leap of faith with E, but that'll never happen. If something did happen with E, it would be E who made the first move. I'm not prepared to risk that friendship.

FFS!

Man, that sucks. There I was, walking past the printer in my own little world about ten minutes ago, when who should come in to collect some printouts but gorgeous Lickable Girl. I was so in my own little world that when she spoke to me, I barely grunted a reply. Nice move, me. Bloody typical though, as she was absolutely stunning today, and that's no understatement. In fact, looking at the (admittedly, very nice) picture of Nicole De Boer below, gorgeous, Lickable Girl really puts her to shame (in that picture at least).

Following on...

... from my recent post about the gorgeous Lickable Girl from work, I found a picture of her online. I have to stress that this one is not the one I found the other day and there don't seem to be many pictures of her out there. Shame on that, she really is very cute indeed. While the picture below does show Ms. de Boer to be very pretty, the picture doesn't do her or Lickable Girl justice. If I ever find a better pic, I'll post it. You can, though, watch her in The Dead Zone which is usually shown on the Sci-Fi channel here in the U.K. or in some of the later seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

I might try and dig out a few other pictures of girls I've seen on the telly who take my fancy. At the very least, it'll give me an excuse to post something.

Ah...

We had a typically blokish conversation in work today about girls off the telly that you'd like to shag. This conversation was then backed up by many emails of pictures of said babes.

In the middle of hunting out a few pictures, I came across Nicole de Boer. It has to be said that the likeness between Nicole de Boer and gorgeous, Lickable Girl from work is quite astounding. Now all I have to do is nip across to http://uk.imdb.com and see what she's in so I can tune in!

Lickable girls.

Lickable girls are like buses. You don't see one for weeks and then the same one comes along twice on one day!

Not that I'm complaining at the perving opportunities, mind you!

Some work stuff.

Took my camera into work today to take pictures of some colleagues to send across to out partners in America. Sadly, Lickable Girl wasn't one of them, or else I'd have a photograph to perv over. Still, there are some nice looking girls in our section of the building.

Started a new project today and it's already gone to the dogs. We've got two weeks to complete the project and I'm off work for three days next week plus my co-worker has taken a week off. Things are going to get messy!

It's E's birthday today, so 'Happy Birthday, E'. See ya next week :D