Ok, Gfree wins That sucks a good bit harder than my day. Because once I get to work, I pretty much bum around all day. Today, I wasn't given any work -at all. No one at the office even called me or mailed me to ask something...so since I've got my own office, I could have just stayed home and no one would have even noticed I didn't show up. That's federal bureaucracy for you!

So basically I spent all day surfing the web, writing mails, posting on forums...all fun, but after a while that gets old too. I even wrote a mail asking the guy for some work, but no reply. I guess he wasn't in the office today.

Anyway, it's a weird place. It's hard to grasp for me sometimes that it comes down to is that 40 or so ppl who are all working to 'support' one person (minister of home affairs in this case). The majority of texts, columns or speeches he does are written by someone else -that would be what I do- and for every meeting, interview, debate in parliament or press conference he gets debriefed on the matter at hand by specialized sub-cells within the cabinet.

Meh...we'll see how it works out. No one can blame me for not doing anything, in any case. I even freaking asked for work...that's not something I tend to do (as in, NEVER).

Ox turned into a contributing member of society .. ?? That's a big shock

What happened to the bum we all knew and loved?

I was loved?

As for being a bum...man, I feel so out of place at my internship. I'm wearing shirts (!), getting up early (!!), parading up and down the Wetstraat (!!!) and working for The Man (!!!!). It's kinda funny when you think of it...I mean, that it's ME doing those things, not the posh losahs of my class.

The Wetstraat is insane. It's go all the minister's offices, Belgian parliament, and a lot of the European office buildings