Muppet News Flash: There is no news tonight
When the most interesting thing to happen in two weeks is a seventy-three hour three-day weekend, that's a sign that things are quiet, I suppose. The calendar lined up just about right, apparently, so that the end of daylight savings time in Greece (and the attendant extra hour) coincided with October 28, "Okhi Day" or "No Day", the anniversary of General Metaxas, dictator of Greece, telling the Italian ambassador where he could stick his half-million-soldier invasion force (the historical records say the literal quote was "Alors, c'est la guerre", but diplo-speak isn't quite as effective for rallying the crowds).
I did manage to arrange my own travel plans for Christmas and New Year's - the higher-ups at the office signed off on eight days off around New Year's, and I was able to find a flight heading for New York on Christmas Day itself. The bad news is that it leaves at half-past six on the morning of the 25th, which means I've got to be up at half-past stupid to get to the airport and clear through security. Then I'm in New York and surroundings until January 6th, and take an extra day of vacation on the back end for jet-lag recovery; it's always worse eastbound, for me, and I've filed returning to work the day after arriving from across the Atlantic under "never again".
What else, what else, what else?
Hm.
The office door seems to work. Sadly, I do have to use it from time to time, especially since one of the people across from me has: a) an open-door policy that is taken a bit too literally; b) a rather short temper; c) a tendency to shout out her door when looking for other people; and d) a speakerphone turned up to eleven. At the last monthly meeting, she stated that if anyone had questions on various topics, her door was always open. I was halfway to responding with the Greek equivalent of "uh, yeah, about that...", but she's one of the Senior Partners, so there was pretty much no way that would have ended up working out well for me.
Weather-wise? Summer's decided to give an encore performance after autumn only got through the beginning of its playlist.
All in all, things are quiet.
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I did manage to arrange my own travel plans for Christmas and New Year's - the higher-ups at the office signed off on eight days off around New Year's, and I was able to find a flight heading for New York on Christmas Day itself. The bad news is that it leaves at half-past six on the morning of the 25th, which means I've got to be up at half-past stupid to get to the airport and clear through security. Then I'm in New York and surroundings until January 6th, and take an extra day of vacation on the back end for jet-lag recovery; it's always worse eastbound, for me, and I've filed returning to work the day after arriving from across the Atlantic under "never again".
What else, what else, what else?
Hm.
The office door seems to work. Sadly, I do have to use it from time to time, especially since one of the people across from me has: a) an open-door policy that is taken a bit too literally; b) a rather short temper; c) a tendency to shout out her door when looking for other people; and d) a speakerphone turned up to eleven. At the last monthly meeting, she stated that if anyone had questions on various topics, her door was always open. I was halfway to responding with the Greek equivalent of "uh, yeah, about that...", but she's one of the Senior Partners, so there was pretty much no way that would have ended up working out well for me.
Weather-wise? Summer's decided to give an encore performance after autumn only got through the beginning of its playlist.
All in all, things are quiet.
This entry is cross-posted from http://bktheirregular.dreamwidth.org/581971.html. Feel free to comment here, or on Dreamwidth using OpenID (
comments).