After around 6 months of that I finally had the pleasure of putting a face to the name, and over an extremely entertaining lunch that included topics such as popular music taste, family birthday celebrations, and even a story of a certain relative's short term romance with Leonard Cohen- which had accompanying photos. Right away I decided she was one of the coolest people in the dept. (even though I think Serge is pretty awesome too) and started calling her a Rockstar whenever we conversed. When you work in an organization spread over a huge area such as ours, (the distance between the furthest northern point serviced by our board and the main office in MTL is around 1900 km, and over 800 km from the most westerly community to the most easterly) it is really nice to make face to face connections with your colleagues.
In subsequent meetings, I discovered she would be attending Osheaga this summer, eager as I was to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers, so we were able to become real, outside the office friends too. She attended two days of the weekend and despite the immense crowds, we managed to find her and her friends/relatives both days. I like Linda a lot, she is a great balance of sensibility and raw fun; quietness and witty comebacks; she can be a nerd with numbers by day and a total rockstar that dances and sings along to a live band in the middle of a group of generation Xers. Who knew random colleagues like her, located so far from my daily reality, could become good friends!! Song of the Moment: Creep by Radiohead
(The linked video was filmed not too far in front of where we were all standing that night.)
Here's a bonus song for free: We also rocked out to this on Friday night: Scar Tissue by RHCP
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