Thursday, December 16, 2004

Let's Get Out Of Here 

A day of furtive looks and a surprisingly large number of caring encounters made for a pretty weary day at work, a penultimate pre-holiday break here at the ol' prep school. Numerous heartfelt expressions of sympathy from those who themselves avaoided the cuts for yet another year were greatly appreciated, but there comes a point when you just want to get back to work and forget it all. Mid-April paternity leave notwithstanding, I do have to keep plugging away until the kids graduate in June.

But not for the next few, anyway. We're off early tomorrow for Palm Beach sand and surf. Back before Christmas, of course, but expect blogsilence until Tuesday at the earliest.

Brought chocolate-dipped strawberries and clementine wedges in small baskets to the coworkers today, plus a large tub o' also-rans for tomorrow's department meeting. I won't be there, of course -- we'll be on the flight to Florida by midafternoon -- but it felt right to be doing something normal in the midst of the surreal aftershock of position loss.

posted by boyhowdy | 12:01 AM |

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