Aidan Williams - High Acuity

Over the last week: I’ve seen three films in three different cinemas. Been out every night. Two of my team were ill on the same day so I had to cover their work and as well as my own for the day. We had a company Vision & Values meeting at the Century Club on Shaftsebury Avenue, for senior members of staff, which lasted from 2pm till 12am. Received an extremely kind email from the tech team from one of our biggest clients, praising the work I’d just completed for them. One of the websites for another of our biggest clients, which I did the front-end development for, was voted Website of the Week by our industry magazine New Media Age. I turned 25 on Saturday 20th. I had lunch with my mum in Soho and then my girlfriend threw a surprise party for me that evening at Ping Pong (also in Soho) before we all moved onto the couch bar – thanks to everyone for coming, especially those who travelled far, and to others for their messages and cards.

Smokin’ Aces, Apocalypto and Rocky Balboa are all worth seeing for a laugh.

There have been so many comedy moments of 2006 – many featuring both of the directors of my company … but since I’ve managed to thus far not mention the name of my company or embarrass the directors, I think I’ll keep it that way (this is here to remind me to remember those moments when I read this in the future).

A classic time this year was when Luis was living here in my flat – a digital feature film effects artist who stayed in our attic while he was looking for a job – he also has a passion and incredible talent for comic book styled illustration. When we’d have a group of people round, he would watch all of us and capture us perfectly in a sketch, doing something random. While most of the drawings were naturally unsuitable for public consumption, he took this one away, inked and coloured it for me.

To explain – I used to walk around in my pyjama bottoms, shouting one of the catchphrases of our household’s favourite American sitcom, where one of the lead characters shouts “You defy Chau!?” whenever someone didn’t do what he says.

Other obvious contenders were with David and Chorna; when Chorna came to visit me early on a Saturday morning and caught me sleeping in bed with one of my work mates, David (I am, in fact, straight… for the most part). Or with Nathan in one particularly eventful massage Thursday at work.

January 1st every year is my ‘London Day’ – it’s one of the only days of the year where London is almost completely empty in the morning, while most are recovering from hangovers.

Unfortunately, due to a fantastic New Years night at my flat last night, which I spent with my flatmate John, a few guests, some wine and some champagne, I didn’t manage to wake up before 9.30am, so I only made it into Oxford Circus at 11am this morning, where I met Chorna and Richard.

There was a big parade running from Buckingham Palace, through Trafalgar Square and past Piccadilly Circus, so that area of London wasn’t as empty as we’d hoped it would be. But we had an incredible day out walking through the city and taking pictures.