My god. I feel like I work in a circus. Literally. We had the annual company picnic today and they had set up, and I kid you not, an entire carnival in the park next to the campus. Rides, a ferris wheel, a contortionist, 2 bands, food, the works. Even carnival games and prizes and a jail you could get your picture taken in. It's days like this that make me wonder if I'm living in a dream. Very surreal. To say the least.
They even had a tricycle race course and a water balloon launching area where you could get into huge water balloon fights with large sling-shots. I don't think I've had that much fun in a long time. Of course, I got back to my desk totally dripping wet and looking like a drowned rat, but oh well. It was fun, and I think the whole team needed to blow off some serious steam.
Of course, it's the one day I haven't got my camera...the whole thing was just too unreal, even walking through it all.
Now, I am tired. But M doesn't want to leave for this weird dinner thing until 7, so I am trying to stay awake long enough to actually leave whenever he's ready and be reasonably witting and charming in the car after hopefully appropriating some empty boxes I can use for the last bits of packing.
In spite of the carnival/circus like day, I managed to get a lot of work done. I got on to some kind of roll with the writing up of current processes and test environments last night and this morning, and just had to reformat everything and get it up on to the right web sites. I'm trying really hard to get as much done this week as I can so I will have as much free time next week as possible. A friend of mine from back east has an interview out here and I want to be able to spend as much time with him as I can, between the work and the packing and the mad round of farewell social engagements. It's going to be an exhausting week next week...
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