Sadly this is soley driven by a calamitious decline in LSNS presence and quality, with the unscheduled departures of the more flirty of them for other climes and the like, and a general overall decline in internal scenery.

While I confess that the competence factor has increased moderately, I do find it moderately disappointing and indeed ruins my entire coffee seeking experience. Why, it has been months since some chica wearing entirely inappropriate clothes for an office (such as, and this remains my favorite, the sheer bustier with shawl and super tight pink pants - and people think every woman in MENA wears the chador) has asked me about my "social situation" - by which of course they are fishing to see if I am married.

Boring, these competent and unsporting office staff. Boring. Boring. Boring.

I am so bored that if I could ever be bothered to learn how to download my photos from my phone, I would entertain with pictures of past receptionists, merely to illustrate the point. Well, all one need do is to search on Alissa or one of those other Leb Pop Tarts and you get the picture (although one remains puzzled by the concept that anyone would think dressing like a Vid Clip singer in the office is in any way appropriate).