Now that I’ve gotten over the little hump of a few weeks back, I’m generally glad to be in this PhD-land I’ve set up for myself. And after all of this talk about prorogation and a coalition government this week, I woke up this morning especially thankful that I don’t work in the public policy system anymore. Emphasis on the servant part of civil servant. What no one is really talking about now that prorogation has been granted to Harper so he can pull his budget together are all the long hours the Department of Finance and some line ministries likely have to pull over the holidays. Awesome for them. Pizza at 11 PM two days before Christmas is probably not that exciting.
My current biggest problems are that I have to edit my concluding case study and conclusion for my development studies paper, it’s hard yet possible to run through snow, and I have almost run out of almond milk. I realize that while I was aiming for three years of this, I am now thinking it’s completely viable to make sure it is stretched to four.
December 7, 2008 at 8:49 pm |
Hm… your first paragraph would make an interesting soft human interest story for some paper in the week leading up to Christmas… what exactly is going on back there anyway…
December 7, 2008 at 9:20 pm |
You don’t think my voluntary simplicity, back to basics, self-fulfillment lifestyle of the second paragraph is human interest worthy? (lol).
In terms of the first paragraph, unfortunately, I am going to take an educated guess of a lot of shouting, running for approvals, and bitching. Sometimes eating really horrible food (public dime). Does that work for human interest? If you wanted to mitigate bitchiness with good looking-ness, they are generally not as good looking/well kept as the political staff either.
Perhaps the story angle could involve their children calling them and asking why mommy isn’t home yet, and then a picture of Harper could fly onto the screen.
December 7, 2008 at 9:27 pm |
NO!
WAIT!
*YOU* could show up with CUPCAKES for the Finance bureaucrats! That would be a great human interest story.