_silverfox ([info]_silverfox) wrote,
@ 2008-02-29 19:50:00
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I Don't Think We Need To Discuss This
That's what the boss said just before he left for a meeting. It took me a moment to realise that it was the last day of my one month trial period.

"No, we don't," I said. I'd already told him that after my one day test working in January anyway. "Part of me still can't believe I'm actually getting paid for this."

"You're a bookseller," he said.

I've known that for years, of course, but there's something special about hearing it from a bookseller that grew up in a bookselling family.


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[info]enchanter
2008-02-29 07:44 pm UTC (link)
I am so happy for you. :D :D :D

...see, sometimes it's not so bad to quit a job you like, because after you've suffered through some others you hated, you end up doing exactly what you've dreamed about. ;-)

Cheers!

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[info]_silverfox
2008-02-29 08:26 pm UTC (link)
LOL! This isn't that far from the one I liked and quit, you know. Just slightly less stressful and with better working hours.

One thing about it seems completely unbelievable and unreal, though: I have only smelled cigarette smoke once in that building (and that was in the elevator - which has a non smoking sign). I didn't think there were second hand smoke free jobs in this country. Feels like somebody custom designed this job for me.

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[info]iremione
2008-03-26 10:47 am UTC (link)
I'm just so proud about you. You finally got it. You've got the perfect job for you. I'm so glad.
I know I've hinted some news for you a long time ago... you said something about me getting married... alas, no. I tought for a while if I should bother you with a (very, very, very) detailed description of my story with Angel, but finally I decided that my (almost inexistent) writing skills are not extensive to my personnal life, so I need your prior authorization to bore you to death.
But don't worry. I'm not getting married, not in the foreseeable future, nor further away in time if I can help it.
No, my surprise was more... mundane. I' going on holiday. That shouldn't be surprise, but the surprise is that two friends of me and I are going (this summer, hopefully) in a backpack trip (sort of) to Austria and the Czech Republic. We're planning on visiting Viena between other places, so... I was thinking that maybe you could afford an afternoon or two for this lost soul visiting your country ^^
Of course I would alert you with enough time for you to prepare physically and mentally (grin... think a thousand years aren't enough, but you'll have to manage with some months xD)and anyway it's still up to you to meet me, because I know you don't like travelling nor being arround people, by the way. I'm not pressing you, just informing I'll be in the country ^^ as I think that visiting without prior notice would be unforgivably rude from me. After all I'll be there to 'sightseeing'the country, and though you are the sight that I am most interested in seeing, there are a lot of other reasons to visit the capital of music in my heart **
I know that a wedding is much more... fluffy, but that's not happening anytime soon, while my holidays to Austria are very much needed xD
Ok... I've bothered you enough for a day (enough for a lifetime if we sum up all these years) so I'll leave now.
Küsse my dear.

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[info]_silverfox
2008-03-26 08:55 pm UTC (link)
How well you know me. The prospect of meeting face to face does indeed make me nervous and insecure, but also excited. I have to warn you right away that I'm useless as a city guide, except that I do own a map of Vienna and am pretty good at navigating its subway system. I don't like the big city and never usually spend my spare time there, so I don't really know the sights and go-to places.
Do you have an idea what sorts of things you'd like to see and do? There's a lot of sights and other interesting places in Vienna and you won't be able to fit them all in.
We could go to a Kaffeehaus or cake shop to eat cake and talk. (No, I don't have a particular one in mind, but it shouldn't be hard to find one once I know where we're going to meet. Maybe Dad knows some good ones. - Vienna has lots of them of course, but I suspect some will be overrun and hectic and a proper Kaffeehaus is a calm place you can relax in.)

I'd love to hear all about you and Angel (except for the private parts of course), but maybe that'd be better suited for e-mail?

And I wasn't actually expecting you to be getting married. It was a bit of an exaggeration that I hoped would make you laugh. (I did think you might be referring to your relationship, though.)

Lots and lots of bikos my friend!

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