We don't get Columbus Day off working with Native American kids, 'cause, duh. Kind of a loss, that one.

Emmett's pre-school celebrated Indigenous Persons Day on Columbus Day. This is a not-uncommon trick out here in Northern California.

Go you, Kathy!!

Now I'm looking at my holiday calendar, and I hate when July 4th is on a weekday! It's lame that the main celebration of the holiday happens at night, but then you have to work the next day. LAME, I say!

At least one school in my neighbourhood celebrates a before-Columbus day instead.

They're giving us two days for July 4 (both Wednesday and Thursday, the 5th), so most of the company will probably be adding Friday the 6th to that as well.

Canadian Thanksgiving, people. Multiculturalism without all the scary new traditions.

We Canadians don't have any holidays between New Year's and Easter, so I would very much like to appropriate your MLK day and your President's Day for myself. You can totally observe our Canadian thanksgiving.

I've got MLK day off, and for the weekend I am going up to a house Northern Vermont to an annual event a friend of a friend has called "Baconfest". No, I'm not kidding.

However, I will be coming back Sunday early because (a) I want a night where I don't have to be up the next day, (b) to beat the craptastic weather we're supposed to get Sunday into Monday and (c) hopefully watch the Pats beat the Chargers and advance to the next round of playoffs (otherwise I'll watch the Chargers advance which won't be AS fun, but I can kinda root for them too).

Let's make it an even 2 each. I'd like Easter (Good Friday or Easter Monday) to break up the gap between Presidents' Day and Memorial Day.

Not off for MLK, but mac is, so he is coming to work with me.

Oh, I bet Mac will get a kick out of that, msbelle.

Spoilers below for last night's episode of The Office.

My love for this show grows and grows. I was certain Michael was going to see through Andy, and was a little surprised when he didn't. I was taken aback that it ended where it did, and that Pam or Angela didn't come forward for Dwight, or try to intervene in some way.

Then I started getting suspicious. I wondered how much of everything was a set up -- of Andy, of Karen, and of us. I've seen it floated on LJ that Phyllis *knew* she was spilling the Jim/Pam beans to Karen. I'm starting to come around to that way of thinking. Then I started remembering how I'd been struck by Andy's talking head scenes. He sounded so much like a contestant on Survivor. I wonder what's really going on. I'm probably taking it too far with the Andy business, but I do think it's possible that Phyllis is as big of a Pam/Jim 'shipper as I am, and that she knew exactly what she was doing. Remember, Karen got off on the wrong foot with her, after all.