Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 195: Happy Bastille Day all!

Bastille Day at work with Jane so we nicked around to a patisserie to get yummy French baked goods.

Then off to meet Fahmi at Wynyard station to take bus up to Palace Cinemas Chauvel for a preview screening I'd won tickets to via bookshop Better Read Than Dead. Reaching For the Moon was fabulous and we even got a goodies bag of skincare products that put us in the running for a premium pack of products from Appelles if we Instagramed out the pic. So we did.

Screening was delayed by an hour when they couldn't find the password for the film, which put the Q& A between Miranda Otto and Giles Hardy back an hour so we ended up trying to find something to eat at 10pm on Oxford Street in Paddington. Settled on Indian kebabs which are naan breads, chicken tikka, butter chicken sauce and an aloo chops (potato balls). Yummy and we ate them on walk back to Museum Station (I had to wait till I'd talked to my gorgeous guy who was tired from the drive to Bathurst - he comes before anything!)

We saw Magda Szubanski wo ended up sitting just 2 rows in front

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 195 - Friday 13th ... and early Bastille Day

I am not even remotely suspicious, happily walking under ladders carrying a jet black cat as I open an umbrella indoors.

Yep I am that kind of guy.

But still I had to wonder what was going on today when all the Cityrail trains from Bankstown were stopped by a broken down train, and so everyone at St Peters had to pile onto the Bondi Junction trains from The Shire, which were already full.

A fun game of sardines ensured. What fun!

Fortunately my first ever author interview for work - with Rebecca Huntley who wrote The Italian Girl - went very well so clearly the entire day was not doomed to failure.

Then we celebrated Bastille Day one day early since none of us are in the office on a Saturday (well unless there's a class one but that's only briefly and isn't all of us anyway). We had Part 1 at lunch with baguettes, ham, cheese, rocket and avocado and cheeses (including a delicious French garlic one) and Part 2 about 4pm when we had ginormous almond croissants and dark chocolate French biscuits. Maydah from the cafe joined us for arvo tea.

Si c'est bon!

I started early about 11.30 with a croissant and this dark chocolate/white chocolate mousse from St Honore bakery. YUM!

I played a couple of minutes of the French national anthem to get us in the mood

With my lovely colleagues Danielle and Tracy (Rose was on holidays and Valerie, my boss, was home sick).

Grabbed these at St Honore bakery in North Sydney