1 guy, several cups (with champagne)

Yesterday, on the first working day of the week, a.k.a. Monday, at our offices at 3 p.m. there was

*drumroll*

Champagne!

Seriously, I am NOT shitting you. We had champagne… like for real… during working hours… out in the open… in plastic cups… on MONDAY

One of our PhD students had his first article published and he had it published in Circulation. Most of you may not realize (nor care) about this but getting your first article (or any article) published in Circulation is a big deal. A huge big deal.

So he went out, got a bottle of champagne, got a batch of plastic cups from my stash at the secretariat and poored, anyone who would have one, a plastic cup with champagne. So HELL yeah… * holding out plastic cup * Poor me one, babe! I was there!

The Chief was not in the office at the time. He came walking back to his office just as we were all returning to our offices after finishing our drink. One of my other bosses told him he had missed out on champagne…

The Chief: “Champagne? Where?”
Other Boss: “In X’s office, on occassion of getting published in Circulation”
The Chief: “Pfff, I don’t do champagne in plastic cups”
Other Boss: “Oh, so what you are saying is that you’re a snob?”
The Chief: “And proud of it!”

I might complain about work at times, and Mondays in particular, but seriously, I love my peeps and I love my job.

And The Chief? He’s wrong. Dude! If there is FREE booze on MONDAYafternoon in the OFFICE during OFFICE HOURS I would drink it from a plastic cup ANYTIME! Ha! I’d drink it from… from… whatever!

Back to the grind

Wish me luck. SO feeling like going back to work [insert sarcasm}

Almost… allllmooosttt…

I made an executive decision yesterday…

After finishing all the necessary pre-summer break office work yesterday, finding out that both bosses that said they might be in the remainder of this week had decided against that, having done all the filing and other chores around the office, and being ready to blow my own brains out by now…

I am having my summer break start a few days early…

Well, sort off. I have asked permission to finish the last part of work from home, which I was granted. And I promised that if I NEED to be in the office I will be available to go in for a few hours (if reaally necessary)

So there: from today on my working-from-home-sort-of-holiday has commenced! And from Saturday on, when The Kid is back home with me, my “real” summerbreak is SO on!

Five more days…

I am at the office. Have been for a few hours. There is still tons of work lying around. There is still no way to move on with that as everyone is already on summer break…

Right now I feel pretty much like this:

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I am SO ready for The Kid to come home on Saturday, from his vacation with his dad, and my own summer break to start. Money is tight and seeing as the vet bill of last week and the upcoming bills for high school supplies for The Kid are not going to help that along, we won’t be travelling anywhere, but just having a few weeks off work and spending time with The Kid will be so wonderful (and we still have the Florida trip in October to look forward to so that’s ok).

I am SO fucking done with all the work crap and such… Just 5 more days and I am there… Five more days. Five more days. Five more days…