so far this week

  1. day off in celebration of civil rights which was nice (monday)
  2. the heating failed, leaving the office in the low 60s (tuesday)
  3. a circuit breaker blew twice, completely shutting off my computer, thankfully both times mid-email (wednesday)
  4. the office was burglarized and i had two packs of gum stolen out of my desk (sometime wednesday night)

what’s next?

ice storm?

Thursday, January 20, 2005 1:19pm
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jackie
1/20/05 1:47pm

Ooh, ooh, can I go?

Monday=holiday
Tuesdau=School learns that senior/son of our main librarian died in his sleep of unknown causes sunday night. Also an early release day, so 4 angst-fraught hours later, everuone goes home.
Wednesday=Half the school is absent for the funeral and then it starts to snow, school is out at 1pm and it takes 90 harrowing minutes to drive home
Thursday=Wake county students stranded at schools overnight finally get to go home. Also a snow day.
Thursday night-Friday=more snow? more snow day? F*** it, people, let’s just give up trying!

justin
1/20/05 2:55pm

you all had enough snow to get stranded at schools overnight. where were the parents?

justin
1/20/05 3:10pm

damn, it sucks not having gum. i mean, hell i just got that gum the other day and wrote a blog post about it!

jackie
1/20/05 5:13pm

The parents, and the schoolbuses, were stuck in traffic for as long as 14 HOURS! I slipped and slid all the way home, dodging stranded cars and accidents.

Katie
1/21/05 6:30am

MY TURN!!!
Monday: boss in holland very sick, so she can’t authorise anything I need to do
Tuesday: Postal strike so I can’t carry on with our guide distribution outside of paris
Wednesday: rail strike, so I can’t carry on with guide distribution INSIDE Paris
Thursday: Teacher’s strike means everyone is off work looking after kids and so I am unable to get in contact with people I need to be in contact with.
Friday: Boss still sick, so I’ve given up and I am spending the day looking for a bike to hire. Going biking in the bois du bougolgne on sunday morning. Very worried about hills.

Katie
1/21/05 6:32am

P.S. Do you know what they were all striking about? the partial privatisation of gas and electricity service. I shit you not. France is so fuckign weird and backwards. People can still go to the state, they just will have the choice of a private supplier. They partly privatised the telecom industry and although you can buy your plan from someone else, you still have to rent the line from france telecom. Fucking weird.