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I'm sure no one will notice, because I am truly awful at posting with anything approaching regularity, but I'm going to be away for 10 days (my posting won't suffer, but I do tend to catch up with my friends list every day, and I'm a little daunted by the skip 2000 I'm going to come home to).
So, I'm off to England tomorrow for the bi-annual family visit. Everyone keeps telling me how excited I must be, except that I'm not. I suppose I might become more excited tomorrow, although by now this is pretty routine. I'm more focused on what I have to do before I can go, and then on just how *long* and *boring* the flight is, to be excited about anything after the flight. With any luck I'll be able to sleep through the flight (it leaves at 11:55 at night, so hopefully), and then I can start to get excited once I'm in Heathrow and Mum and Dad have picked me up.
It's the first time in a long time that the entire family will be over at once. Mum and Dad are there already, staying with my Aunt on my Mum's side at the moment, having stayed with my Aunt and Uncle on my Dad's side already (lucky ducks - one set took them to France, and the current set has taken them to Spain). My brother, sister-in-law, and tiny, screaming little Nephew, are coming over mid-next week. And we're all going to go to the town my Dad grew up in for their annual fall carnival. Apparently it's where all of that side of the family congregates yearly, so it's a good opportunity for my Brother to show the little mite off.
Work will hopefully not fall completely apart in my absence - my supervisor is away all next week too, as well as one of the senior techs, so..... it might be an experience for the rest of them. But we specifically timed all of these things to fall in between the two major projects for the fall, so it was the best time we could go. I'm just wondering if our Assistant Manager has realized just how many of us are off.
So, I'm off to England tomorrow for the bi-annual family visit. Everyone keeps telling me how excited I must be, except that I'm not. I suppose I might become more excited tomorrow, although by now this is pretty routine. I'm more focused on what I have to do before I can go, and then on just how *long* and *boring* the flight is, to be excited about anything after the flight. With any luck I'll be able to sleep through the flight (it leaves at 11:55 at night, so hopefully), and then I can start to get excited once I'm in Heathrow and Mum and Dad have picked me up.
It's the first time in a long time that the entire family will be over at once. Mum and Dad are there already, staying with my Aunt on my Mum's side at the moment, having stayed with my Aunt and Uncle on my Dad's side already (lucky ducks - one set took them to France, and the current set has taken them to Spain). My brother, sister-in-law, and tiny, screaming little Nephew, are coming over mid-next week. And we're all going to go to the town my Dad grew up in for their annual fall carnival. Apparently it's where all of that side of the family congregates yearly, so it's a good opportunity for my Brother to show the little mite off.
Work will hopefully not fall completely apart in my absence - my supervisor is away all next week too, as well as one of the senior techs, so..... it might be an experience for the rest of them. But we specifically timed all of these things to fall in between the two major projects for the fall, so it was the best time we could go. I'm just wondering if our Assistant Manager has realized just how many of us are off.