Here's to new beginnings... or, uh, something...

Today we got a new boss. He seems like a no-nonsense kinda boss. During the mini-meeting in which the top boss introduced him to the department, he have us a nice little speech about how he's ready to learn all the strategies here and he wants to hit the ground running and blah blah blah.

He ended by warning us that sometimes he might be "wordy, loud, and a little emotional"... erm... ooookay. Don't know how to interpret that, but thanks for the fair warning, I guess. lol.

So many changes going on. My favorite coworker is fed up with the politics of this place and has been looking for a job for some time now. She's gotten VERY positive feedback from another company and I think she will soon abandon me to fend for myself against the ugly fates of this freak show we call our office. Ok, just kidding, it's not so bad. But some days it really does seem like a freak show.

Oh the things that happen in this place. I've seen everything from shameless sabotages and backstabbings to all out screaming matches. It actually keeps me pretty entertained.

Ah, such is life. Hope you are all having a great day... I sure am, I only work a half day tomorrow and then I'm off to a 3-day weekend at the beach! The flight has been booked, the backpack will get packed tonight, the cousins will be alerted of my soon arrival, and fun WILL be had!!!!!

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I love national holidays in Angola :D

Today was such a SLOOOOWWW day at work. Nothing worthy of note happened. I only got like 3 or 4 emails... that never happens.

I guess today is just one of those uneventful days that come along once in a while. There are some days full of stories to tell (like one time, I saw a pregnant lady get morning sickness all over herself and the lady sitting next to her in the bus. Then I saw a little girl get her head stuck in a little space of the turnstile to get into the bus, while her mother panicked and almost choked her from trying unsuccessfully to pull her out. Then I saw a man fall off his motorcycle and break his leg so badly that the bone was sticking out through his shin. This all happened within a 2-hr bus ride from one side of the city to the other... craziness!)

I think the most eventful thing that happened today was an in-depth discussion about my coworker's blouse. There's 4 of us girls in the department, and I guess when we're bored we can just get into these kinda irrelevant conversations. We couldn't decide if it was shocking enough to be classified as fuschia, purple-y enough to be classified as magenta... we knew it was something between pink and red. But we were sitting there having this conversation for a good while before we decided to just keep it as an undecided color, lol. And now for your viewing pleasure, some pics of the deeply insightful participants of this ever-so-important conversation:

There's the wearer of the blouse that spurred such amusement, on the right. And another one of the coworkers. Here's the third participant in the conversation:

And there was also yours truly:

The end!