a year ago today

On this ultimate day of the year, I'm thinking back to one year ago. It was a Monday. Several weeks earlier, I had received a job offer contingent on my starting the new position before the end of 2007. I had very much wanted some time off between jobs and between Christmas and New Year's. Little did I know how much time I'd end up getting. Just a few days after I resigned, my previous company closed its doors a week before Christmas.

In any case, my new boss and I worked out a deal whereby I could start work on the 31st, ensuring that the no one would take away her job requisition. Then I could take the rest of the week off, and make up the time later. Except that there was a huge snow storm predicted for that Monday. On Saturday, my new boss emailed to ask if we could meet for the next day. I really didn't have anything better to do, so we spent about four hours together and my first day on the job was on a Sunday.

Of course, the huge snow storm absolutely fizzled. I ended up going into the office on my official first day for a few hours, at least. On that second day on the job, the place was totally emptied out. Had I been paranoid, I would have thought I'd been hired into a ghost town.

And today, exactly a year later, we start the morning awaiting snow. It's all supposed to be over by late afternoon, ensuring that tonight's "amateurs" will be only partially handicapped as they leave their New Year's Eve parties. (Hmm -- best time to leave one of those parties? Probably at 11:58.) Alas, our New Year's Eve event is apparently canceled; we'll have to celebrate tomorrow at a day-time party.

Happy New Year, everyone!