A day in the life of...

Anyone who follows my blog - yes, both of you.... will have surmised that today's news about Lehman's was likely to have led to - well, to say the least - an 'eventful' day for me. Most of the morning, I sat at my desk during the day, typing 'Lehman' into Google news and hitting refresh, and following the Markets Live dialogue on FT.com. Thanks to the internet, along with several other market nerds ('merds'), I had a virtual ringside seat to the demise of a venerable institution and subsequent pan-market fall-out throughout the morning.... At 11:30, I had pretty solid plans to be 'glued' as the US markets opened at 2:30pm (UK time) when I expected the hole to get even deeper, wider and far more likely to be full of spiders.... but then, out of the blue, reality check.... some clever clogs had offered Lehman's for sale on ebay. By the time I got the news and checked ebay, some 57 bids had been logged, with the figure running at $99,999,999.00. Apparently pictures of the building weren't available as the seller wasn't sure Lehman still owned it.... At one point, Lehman's came complete with a blow up doll of Alan Greenspan. Anyway, this dose of humour (and hunger pangs) winkled me out of my office and into the street... outside, everything was going on as normal. Sure, maybe the financial world looked like it was collapsing, but the chap on the corner was still hawking the local rag, mums were still falling out of Jack Fulton's yelling at little Chardonnay to stop lifting her skirt up (a phrase I am sure mums will be yelling at girls named Chardonnay for at least the next 15 years!!), and the chaps were still there, smoking outside the pub across the road. Life carried on - who da thought it? Wall Street really is just another street in another town - its not the epicentre of life, the universe and everything, afterall.

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