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An Act of God has derailed your software. Collect £10 and do not pass go.
Guess where the software people are?
Manila.
Luckily they're all okay, and given the circumstances nobody really has a problem with the new release / test cases being late. (Also, there will be a corporate collection / donation for victims of the flooding, whether employees or not. How nice to work for an ethical company!)
So I was back to (offline) proofreading* today, YAY!
Also, actual boss is in after a week of evil viral thing: she seems very nice and has heard that I'm vastly overqualified. "Don't tell anyone," I pleaded.
I think they will let me come back post-holiday. So many books ...
*teledermetology, the Federal Reserve during the Great Depression, shipping law (search and seizure), seagrass ecology, Plato's Meno, Greek philosophy in early Christian theology, something utterly opaque -- with formulae -- about elasticity, courtship in Elizabethan poetry, early C20 Russia ...
Manila.
Luckily they're all okay, and given the circumstances nobody really has a problem with the new release / test cases being late. (Also, there will be a corporate collection / donation for victims of the flooding, whether employees or not. How nice to work for an ethical company!)
So I was back to (offline) proofreading* today, YAY!
Also, actual boss is in after a week of evil viral thing: she seems very nice and has heard that I'm vastly overqualified. "Don't tell anyone," I pleaded.
I think they will let me come back post-holiday. So many books ...
*teledermetology, the Federal Reserve during the Great Depression, shipping law (search and seizure), seagrass ecology, Plato's Meno, Greek philosophy in early Christian theology, something utterly opaque -- with formulae -- about elasticity, courtship in Elizabethan poetry, early C20 Russia ...