I do. Which is a bit odd, given y'all's religious affiliation and our lack of one.
Nah, we don't have one either, outside the div school -- we just have a religious origin. What we do have is a persistent habit of either not getting holidays some places get, or getting really halfassed "it's a holiday, but we're still having classes and people in this and that and the other category are expected to come in anyway" holidays. The basic "we're such a cushy place to work! but we secretly expect you to be so vocation-driven that you'll want to walk to work in the snow out of sheer love!" doublespeak that you get in a lot of the edu world.
(On the other hand, the state holiday makes me schadenfreudful at watching MIL try to figure just why she hates it. The government is wasteful and can't do anything right and state employees (note: she is one) are lazy and shiftless and don't deserve more days off! But on the other hand, it's a holiday about Jesus and there should totally be more Jesus in the government! But it's a suspiciously catholic holiday about Jesus! hooboy.)
I took Friday off to wrangle my mother. On the upside, maybe we'll garden.
Our local hipsterish coffee shop ( [link] ) has Elvis donuts - peanut butter, banana, and bacon. I've never had one, though - I can never pass up the red velvet with chocolate icing.
I took Friday off, because I'm a guest at our local SF/F con, and Friday involves three or four panels and a tea party.
(That's how they convinced me to be a guest this year.
"We'll throw you a tea party!"
As bribes go, it's not bad.)
t Aimee wonders if she can get her own local SF/F con to throw Jilli a tea party and pay for, you know, all the stuff to come out here.
Aimee my cherub, if you can convince them to pay for travel and accomodations, I will attend. It would be very, very fun for me.
I took Friday off, because I'm a guest at our local SF/F con, and Friday involves three or four panels and a tea party.
Oh, neat! What con? What panels?
Norwescon 33, and I'm on just about everything for the Goth track. (Go figure.) Norwescon is my "home" convention in that I've attended it off and on for YEARS. There will be many people I like there. There will also be some people I will actively avoid and ignore, but oh well.
On the other hand, the state holiday makes me schadenfreudful at watching MIL try to figure just why she hates it.
Heh.
I wanna go to a tea party with Jilli!
I don't have Friday off, but I am leaving early and hopping on a train to visit the family.
I wanna go to a tea party with Jilli!
I have and it was fantastic! [link]
