Got an email from the president's assistant - an absolutely lovely woman who's been in the 'shoot the messenger" postion too many times -nope not gonna shoot her - but damn I am so not thrilled w ith the email... my new departure date from the hell I am in... december 20th... and I have to be in New Jersey for christmas - but I need to get home to Chicago first to unpack -do laundry - and repack appropriate christmas clothes...

Last year I ended up blowing off christmas because of our office move and all vacations were cancelled -wonder how much trouble I'd be in with my family if I blew off 2 christmasses in a row -I already didn't do anything with thanksgiving because I was in Europe... Ah yes I can feel the lecture about priorities coming on... but my critical family doesn't pay my bills...so gotta do what I gotta do... I think... this sucks...

I had another blog entry in mind when I staeted but this one kind of took on a life of it's own... :D

I've done the long term business trips to europe and around the globe before and they haven't been as bad as this one ha been - primarily because I'm still working weekends here -and cant' take off and go somewhere better on the weekend... I'm working 15 hours a day, 6 days a week, no one to really talk to outside of colleagues on IM and that's few and far between... I have never minded being alone because people watching is fun... but eavesdropping is fun too -- only i don't speak anything remotely resembling dutch/danish/amsterdamese so i can't even eavesdrop proper.. and the food here - is just awful and unrecognizable...