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Today is the 5th day of the 46th week, the 17th day of the 11th month, the 322nd day of 2016, and:
- Beaujolais Nouveau Day
- Electronic Greeting Card Day
- Great American Smokeout
- Homemade Bread Day
- International Happy Gose Day -- celebrating one of the most popular sour beers; originated in Leipzig; disseminated worldwide
- International Guinness World Records Day
- International Students' Day
- National Baklava Day
- National Farm Joke Day
- National Take a Hike Day
- National Unfriend Day
- Nouveau Beaujolais Day
- Petroleum Day
- The Little Mermaid Day
- Use Less Stuff Day
- World Pancreatic Cancer Day
- World Peace Day
- World Philosophy Day
- World Prematurity Awareness Day
ON THIS DAY: In 474 Emperor Leo II died after a reign of ten months and is succeeded by his father Zeno, who becomes sole ruler of the Byzantine Empire. In 794 Japanese Emperor Kanmu changed his residence from Nara to Kyoto. In 1800 the US Congress held its first session in Washington DC, in the partially completed Capitol building. In 1858 – Modified Julian Day zero. 1869 the Suez Canal opened in Egypt, linking the Mediterranean and the Red seas. In 1970 the Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world. In 1978 the Star Wars Holiday Special aired on CBS, receiving negative reception from critics, fans, and even Star Wars creator George Lucas.
I went to work today.
Now wait a minute, that announcement isn’t as trivial as it sounds! I got up this morning and started thinking. I have a cold, can barely talk, my eye is seeping, I am coughing and sniffling and no one at the office would’ve been surprised if I didn’t show up – in fact, they might be grateful! [cue conversation about going to work sick]. Today is a simply gorgeous fall day, the kind you don’t get very often in November – the sun is shining, there is a light breeze, the leaves still are colorful and it is going to be in the mid-60s. There is nothing that is time-sensitive on my desk today. And I have already scheduled to take tomorrow off. So, since I still have a couple of days of use-or-lose PTO, why not make it a four-day weekend? I stood at the balcony door and watched the sun come up. I fiddle-faddled online a bit . I looked in my closet for something to wear and started making a mental list of things I would rather do than go to work, which included straightening out my closet and figuring out what Christmas presents I had yet to buy [which isn’t exactly going out and about in the beautiful weather, neh?]. I flipped a coin – heads I go, tails I stay – and it came up tails.
But I was not running a temperature [yes I took it] and in fact, I felt pretty energetic. So I had a long hard look in the mirror, gave myself permission to play hooky ….. and got ready for work. Somehow it just felt like cheating to stay home. I can rationalize it by saying in a small office like ours, one person just deciding not to be here unexpectedly impacts everyone else, which is perfectly true. But the fact of the matter is that I was taught once you agree to take a job, you do it – not when it is convenient for you, not when you feel like it, but when you are supposed to be at work. Day in and day out, disregarding aches/pains and angst, it’s simply what working class people do. All. Their. Lives.
 very inconveinent at times it is.....
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