I've finished work for today.

[tjwmason]

It's only 11:25 :-)

Well more accurately I have finished the work which came in with today's post; there is a pile of on-going stuff which I will have to do for another 5 1/2 hours (less lunch break).

I'm going to make me a drink now.

[terrya]

1. Well, a drink is called for, then!

I just came into work. I'm drinking a nice cup of green tea. :-)

Enjoy your drink.

[tjwmason]

4. As I'm still in the office

It's green tea here as well, very gorgeous but I'd like something more fun.

Enjoy your drink and have a wonderfully splendid day.

[MissHoneychurch]

2. I was about to say

"How dare you to go home already?" ... :hide:

[tjwmason]

3. If I go home I don't get paid

If I sit around in the office posting to D.U. until 5p.m. I do. Some questionable logic there - but 'ours is not to reason why, ours it but to do and die'.

But just as longas you know that I'm not reallygoing to be working for the rest of the day. :P

[MissHoneychurch]

5. I don't know about you

but I have Monday off (holiday) AND Tuesday afternoon (special Frankfurt holiday). :P

[tjwmason]

6. Grrs.

I'm not working tomorrow (don't usually work Fridays), but back in on Monday. We've got a holiday on 30th though.

[MissHoneychurch]

7. there is another religious holiday on the 26th

but not all Bundesländer have it. I don't. But I have vacation from the 26th till the 30th. Works that way also :)

[supernova]

8. Baahhh! You Europeans and your frequent holidays!

:P

While I'm stuck here slaving away until Memorial Day, 5/30.

Edit: Just got out of the shower and I'm drinking orange mandarin tea. :-)

[MissHoneychurch]

10. are you jealous?

:P

[supernova]

12. Only sometimes

:D

I'm just whining because it's definitely a long haul from xmas/new year's to Memorial Day over here. And not that many places have Easter as a mandatory holiday.

[tjwmason]

9. We used to get Whitmonday off

(This coming Monday), but it was switched to the first Monday in May (to keep May Day) in the '70s.

I'm guessing 26th is Corpus Christi which the protestant laender won't be too keen on, but would be big in the southern Catholic places.

Are you going away for your vacation?

[MissHoneychurch]

11. hey, you know your religious days

Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg are having the 26th off. I live in Hessen (protestant) - no chance.

I will be going with my family to Poland. Part of my family comes from there (former German parts) and it is a present for my grandma's 80th birthday.

[tjwmason]

13. I'm a good little Catholic boy

:rofl:

Well okay, drop the 'good'. My memory takes a long time to absorb information, but once something gets in there nothing can get it out again, and there are plenty of dates that float around in there; also the intricate workings of the moveable kalendar appeal to my slightly odd mind-set.

[MissHoneychurch]

14. my bf is catholic also

but he doesn't know his dates ... LOL. Is there another term for Whitsun?

[tjwmason]

15. The official title is Pentecost

As it is 50 days after Easter. I believe that Whitsun is a peculiarly English term.

[MissHoneychurch]

16. ok, thanks

maybe I try that term with him. In German it is Pfingsten