Friday, December 03, 2004
Mild Anticipation
Let's hear it for Friday afternoon! With another week drawing to a close, and only 3 and a bit more until the holidays, 'tis the season for anticipation. For a bit of a change, I have a pretty full weekend ahead, if all goes to plan, I will be hitting town (well, Yokohama) tonight and tomorrow night - all ready to spend the bonus that we got paid today (or at least some of it).
Sunday, through a felicticious twist, I scored an invite, through Anne, to a free evening of food and drink at the Thai Embassy in Tokyo - apparently it's a celebration to commemorate the King of Thailand's birthday - but once you hear the phrase 'free food and drink' your attention dives off as you think about the joy that those four little words will bring you.
Work has been characteristically slow this week, and I am further enforcing my desire to leave (while slowly fixing up my CV), although I was thrown a slight curve ball this morning in our departmental meeting, when it was revealed that the Board were reconsidering an Eastern European operation, and my name (along with one of the slightly more tolerable members of the brass) was down for a business trip 'next year'. Of course whether anything eventuates entirely remains to be seen. That said, I would be keen for a free trip to Europe. At the same time, I have no faith in this company to successfully see the venture through, so from a practical point of view the trip will be a total waste of time.... I shall keep my ear out, but it's not going to stop me wandering around, handing out my resume.
Talking of things resume-ish - one thing that I have always avoided doing (and now, probably have to) is putting some kind of Goal/Amibition section in my CV. I have never been able to conjure something up both relevant and meaningful. "I want to be retired by 35 with sufficient passive income to see me through, and a select team of experts and beautiful woment finding new ways to be nice to me." just doesn't seem to cut it. Ho hum.
1 hour and 40 minutes until the weekend.
See you on the other side.
Sunday, through a felicticious twist, I scored an invite, through Anne, to a free evening of food and drink at the Thai Embassy in Tokyo - apparently it's a celebration to commemorate the King of Thailand's birthday - but once you hear the phrase 'free food and drink' your attention dives off as you think about the joy that those four little words will bring you.
Work has been characteristically slow this week, and I am further enforcing my desire to leave (while slowly fixing up my CV), although I was thrown a slight curve ball this morning in our departmental meeting, when it was revealed that the Board were reconsidering an Eastern European operation, and my name (along with one of the slightly more tolerable members of the brass) was down for a business trip 'next year'. Of course whether anything eventuates entirely remains to be seen. That said, I would be keen for a free trip to Europe. At the same time, I have no faith in this company to successfully see the venture through, so from a practical point of view the trip will be a total waste of time.... I shall keep my ear out, but it's not going to stop me wandering around, handing out my resume.
Talking of things resume-ish - one thing that I have always avoided doing (and now, probably have to) is putting some kind of Goal/Amibition section in my CV. I have never been able to conjure something up both relevant and meaningful. "I want to be retired by 35 with sufficient passive income to see me through, and a select team of experts and beautiful woment finding new ways to be nice to me." just doesn't seem to cut it. Ho hum.
1 hour and 40 minutes until the weekend.
See you on the other side.
# posted by Nils @ 3:40 PM 
