what?! You slackers.

[dragonlady7]

I have now been at work for an hour and a half, and glanced briefly at my friendspage before even leaving for work, and I can safely say that in over three hours, not one of you slackers has updated!!
What! Do you all get today off? Are you all lying snuggled deep in your flannel sheets with your down comforter over your head on this cold, cold cold morning, a mute kitten batting idly at your toes and the wind rattling in your windows?

Or maybe you're sitting at your kitchen tables in your fuzzy slippers, a mug of hot chocolate with whipped cream steaming gently at one hand as your adorably sleep-groggy and tousled boyfriend sits across the table with his own mug, gesticulating in his peculiar spidery way as he explains about C++ restricting private members.

Perhaps there are even some of you who are perhaps in bed but not sleeping. I won't go there, poetically.

Because these are all things I would probably be doing if I had today off.
Not updating Livejournal.

But you have a duty to amuse me that you are neglecting. Stop having fun and come back here and amuse me.

OK, you don't really have to. Fine. Take the day off. Grumble.
I'm actually (*gasp*) doing work-- I've been astoundingly busy being amazingly competent all morning, and it's so odd I just don't know how to deal with it.

Can it be that I wrote nearly 15,000 words this weekend?

That might have something to do with it.

Man what a difference it makes in my mental outlook.

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[that-redhead.livejournal.com]

I've been busy working on Board meeting minutes and sorting through a cluster fuck of paperwork that was from the previous administration. *sigh*

If it makes you feel any better, I have to work in about an hour.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

> previous administration

Oy. I know what you mean.
I'm afraid I'm no better though-- I have a terrible track record with keeping my shit straight for the Board or for my Committee. People who are good at keeping things sorted out are few and far between. And someday when I am rich I will hire one to be my personal assistant.

> makes you feel any better

No, it really doesn't-- I was having this pleasant fantasy, fueled by the empty roads during my morning commute, of all these people having a nice lie-in and then spending the day with their families and like, thinking about civil rights and stuff. Or whatever people do with MLK day off-- I haven't had it off in so long, and don't know anyone who has had it off, that I don't remember anymore.

[soulofbuffalo.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm here. I had to take a different bus to work because of the f-ed up MLK Day bus schedule and then (extra fun) it was detoured due to construction. The driver didn't know about the construction so we took a way more roundabout detour than necessary.

And it's cold. And there's no point in stalking certain persons in City Hall to whom I need to talk, because they're probably doing the bunny slippers and hot chocolate thing. At any rate, they're not in.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

I really think that the US needs more Bank Holidays. Like in the UK.
Americans just need more days off. I tell you it would stimulate the economy. Everyone would buy bunny slippers, at least.
Some of us might even travel.
I think we'd all be more productive when we came back, too.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

[hathy-col.livejournal.com]

We don't have a Martin Luther King Day, but since I am currently on end-of-exams break I have been in bed until 1pm.

If it makes you feel any better, though, I did have to get up and do my cleaning shift at 6.30am which sort of takes the gloss off a bit.

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

At work -- no MLK day here. Though I am looking forward to our NEW long weekend in February, yay!

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

New long weekend in February???

[forodwaith.livejournal.com]

Louis Riel Day (http://www.cbc.ca/canada/manitoba/story/2007/09/25/stat-holiday.html). The population basically guilted the province into it.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

Whoa.
1) They came up with a holiday and then had a contest to figure out why there should be a holiday? Whoa.
1a) And schoolchildren chose a guy who led an Indian uprising. Whoa.

2) Your province restricts shopping on Sundays. Whoa.

I'm just trying to envision Virginia willingly giving employees a day off for Nat Turner Day. And then closing the malls early.


Man you really are a foreign country.

(Er, it occurs to me that I should indicate that there was a measure of disingenuity above, and I did not actually intend to imply that I truly believe Nat Turner and Louis Riel to be fundamentally equivalent. Internet, tone of voice, etc.)

[kkatowll.livejournal.com]

I'm at work, sadly the papers must go out even the day after holidays, and even more sadly the reading populace (such that there is) expects to read about more than just what people did at MLK observances. So I'm here writing about something that will truly fascinate them -- no trespassing signs.

But I didn't have to come in til 3 p.m. And now I have to babysit the scanner til 11.

[dragonlady7.livejournal.com]

No trespassing!! Always fascinating.
More interesting when they say things like "Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be prosecuted."