dude, i totally forgot today was a holiday.

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so i came into work today, expecting a meeting about a project im working on, and my boss sends me this email thats like "whoops! lets meet wednesday; i forgot today was a holiday..." well, SHIT. i forgot, too. so now, i am the only person on either of two floors of my office. so i guess im going to have a quiet day of reflection on MLK at the dead office. lets have a banner ILX day. if this were curb your enthusiasm, by the way, i would almost certainly incur semi-karmatic wrath for staying here, instead of respectfully observing MLK day at home.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i forgot in was a holiday today too.. as did everyone else in my office :(

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:18 (twenty-one years ago)

It is so nice having a day devoted to making kites for me

― lukey (Lukey G), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I did this once, my new place had an extra holiday after a bank holiday but everyone forgot to tell me so I turn up on tuesday and the 1st time I realise anything is wrong is when the automatic doors dont open I almost walked straight into them.

Luckily I only had a 15 minute walk home.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I wish I got MLK Day off. I'm going into work on four hours of sleep, woo-hoo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

hilarious about the automatic doors.

yeah, i mean, im hourly here, and everyone else is salaried. so im just gonna hang out and do some work and rock my music extra loud.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

why not go home and claim that you have been working all day?

― ken c (ken c), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ehhh - i mean, i have some stuff to do, and im too principled/too much of a pussy to lie.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:28 (twenty-one years ago)

i still have school. we don't get any holidays, just christmas and thanksgiving.

― caitlin oh no (caitxa1), Monday, 17 January 2005 14:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Grrr, they're making me work today GRRRRRRRR.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm at work as well. We just finished watching Napoleon Dynamite on the video wall and I don't know what's next but I brought TRON, Sneakers, and Real Genius

― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 January 2005 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude if you hang around after the credits for ND you get to see Kip's wedding to lafawnduh. holy shit this is absurd.

― TOMBOT, Monday, 17 January 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

oh man - i wish i worked with you.

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

god. i have to work today too. is it too much to ask for a holiday?! also, i feel like bernie mac with double pneumonia.

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Monday, 17 January 2005 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

We get today as an optional holiday - either MLK Day or Columbus Day. One of my co-workers dicked around so long about which day to take (we can't all take it) that he ended up getting it off, and I ended up having to work. Thankfully it's quiet, but I'd rather be home.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 17 January 2005 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Days like today make me wish that I worked for the government, the post office, or a bank.

Here where I'm at, today is simultaneously Robert E. Lee AND Martin Luther King Day. Figure THAT one out.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeepers, I sympathize for everyone stuck at work, horrid. I'm pretty glad for the extra day, it was a busy weekend and I'm still catching up on lost sleep!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm off today as well, but my paycheck is probably at the office, and I'm tempted to go in anyways. But it's raining, so probably not.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i was just going to ask about what the south does about MLK day! thanks PP!

― John (jdahlem), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

That's terrific: "We all get the day off to sit home and feel however we individually feel about black people and the south's transition from a slave-holding plantocracy to a theoretically racially-integrated slightly-laggard portion of the new American service economy!"

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I came to work because train-flooding on Friday kept me from making it in then. If not for that I would have just not showed up, and then if my boss called I would have been all like "What an offensive thing to ask, show some respect, man."

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm at work because we do news, but most of the company is home. I'm leaving early though.

Tombot I get the sense that you guys would be watching movies even on a regular workday: yes or no or maybe?

― Haibun (Begs2Differ), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

They're closing the office at 3pm...

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

WTF, I had no idea it was MLK day. I was just wondering why there is a MASSIVE line for the movie theater outside my office.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I only worked for four hours today. But I had to brave the lines at the bookstore because I needed one more book for this semester and some more Scantrons because I had less than I thought I did and, well, that itself seemed like it took up four hours (even though it only took an hour overall). I'm operating on maybe three hours' sleep and haven't had a chance to take a nap thus far so I want to sleeeeeeeeeeep.

Sleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.

I mean, like, I deeply admire MLK 24/7/365, yeah, and I think it's sad that he was cut down in the prime of his life, but right now I could do with some sleeeeeeeeeeep.

But dinner's not going to fix itself. Ack.

― Samantha Baker (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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