Well, you haven't lived till you have seen The Sound of Music performed by 11 year olds as the end of term school play. My first thoughts were:
1. Thank goodness that Lisa Ray was not 11 years old when I directed her in The World Unseen, and:
2. I'm cured of my girlhood crush on Leisel Von Trapp forever
Moving right along, Hanan is entreating me to spend more time on creative work, while simultaneously emailing me 1000 spreadsheets an hour to look at. Now that I am seriously trying to get into a writing state of mind, she seems more like a whirlwind than ever. I don't know how she does it. Even while she is out of the office at meetings, she texts, emails and psychically transmits ever-longer To Do lists for me and the small army of interns beavering away (don't take that the wrong way) in the office. But I cannot think about marketing and accounts. I am caught in a hazy no-man's land figuring out TV series plot-lines. Having analysed all these TV shows I am horrified, not to say exhausted, by how much happens in each one. I mean, should Tala lose her company, have an affair and go to jail all in the same episode? Can Leyla ditch Tala, join a convent, and escape Nazis before a commercial break?
Anyway, I digress. The point is, I am not doing well on the spreadsheet front and therefore not going to make Employee of the Month any time soon. No, that title is a toss up this month between Aida Kattan, our sari-wearing, LA-based miracle of productivity, and Esperanza, currently our longest-serving intern to date. I like to give any intern who lasts more than 3 months working for Hanan a medal and a small padded room to decompress in, but Esperanza, from Spain, has proven to be up to the job. And what does the Employee of the Month get, I hear you ask? Why, a free pair of I Can't Think Straight panties of course. We may be cheap, but we ain't tacky...